31/07/2017 Newsnight

I'm here to serve at the discretion of the President.

If he wants me to leave tomorrow, then I'm not

There's never a dull moment in this White House, but the sacking

of the communications director Anthony Scarramucci,

after just ten days in post, could be a sign that the grown-ups

are imposing themselves. We'll ask the editor in chief

of Slate Magazine if Trump's new Chief of Staff is bringing

From Russia.. Without much love.

To North Korea with a fair bit of hate.

Is it right to think the world is at an unusually

We'll take stock tonight and ask the big question -

Is it wrong to broadcast the private conversations of Princess Diana?

Ten years ago, Anita Roddick, the environmentalist and founder

of the Body Shop died, one of the most high-profile victims

We hear from her daughter Sam for the first time.

She was pretty clear that she got it through

I could really hear the vulnerability in her voice, because

Well, the story tonight is either that the White House is imploding

or that it is getting itself into shape.

We won't know for a while, but we do know that Anthony Scarramucci,

who had made such a mark in his few days as communications

US media reporting that the new Chief of

Mr Scarramucci spun it with more grace than had been evident in most

He felt it was best to give the new Chief of Staff John Kelly

a clean slate and the ability to build his own team,

At the end of a turbulent week it does seem that President Trump has

yielded to the argument that stability is better than chaos.

You're here to stay? We'll see, I'm here to serve at the discretion of

the president. If he wants me to leave tomorrow then I'm not going to

be here to stay. Anthony Scaramucci is an excommunications director.

This interview from the White House was recorded earlier today. So the

Chief of Staff was literally sworn in about 52 minutes ago, so he is

setting in place the procedures by which he will run the White House

internally. Where Anthony fits into that you would have to ask general

Kelly. Let's give him more than 52 minutes and find out later in the

week. We didn't need that long. I love the president. And I'm very,

very loyal to the president. When Mr Scaramucci got the job ten days ago,

the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer resigned over that

appointment. Then last week, Mr Scaramucci publicly the then White

House Chief of Chief of Staff. He was replaced last week. That was

seen as a win for Mr Scaramucci. But Mr Priebes's replacement, general

John Kelly's demappeded Mr Scaramucci's removal in turn. Mr

Scaramucci's attack last week may have made that an easier sale. The

president certainly felt that Anthony's comments were

inappropriate for a person in that position. He didn't want to burden

General Kelly also with that line of succession. Mr Scaramucci was

actually the second communications director, following Mike Dubcic who

resigned in June. And this is the second National Security Adviser,

the first, Mike Flynn, resigned after misleading the Vice President

on issues around the Russian influence scandal. Irritation with

the investigation into that scandal eventually led to President Trump

firing the FBI director, James Comey. We also know the president

may about be about to fire his Attorney-General Jeff Sessions

because he recuesed himself from that investigation. Maybe General

Kelly will make the White House work. But they've had a humiliation

on health care in Congress, that Russian links investigation is

rumbling on and it's still not a normal White House.

Our North America Editor, Jon Sopel joins us now from outside

So, how many in DC saw that coming as quickly as that? I would love to

tell you that we all saw that coming, the truth is I was in the

White House briefing room a few hours ago, and we were sitting

around shooting the breeze and saying, you know what, it all

suddenly feels a very much great deal calmer, compared to last week.

Donald Trump going on holiday at the end of the week for a couple of

weeks. It's probably going to be a slight lull now and then probably

absolutely nothing to do for a couple of weeks. Then came the flash

that Anthony Scaramucci was going, note quite as quiet then. Even, we

understand, that Mr Scaramucci was escorted off the premises. Ten days

ago, he was seen as the answer to Donald Trump's prayers on

communication and press relations. Now gone, departed. Briefly, one

should say this is incredibly absorbing. Every minute we're

talking about the personnel and comings and going, not talking about

health care, defence or global problems, Paris climate deals or

anything. I think that's why it is important for General Kelly to have

notched up this victory today but for future victories. He wants to

bring a sense of order, process, a chain of command, a proper reporting

structure into the White House so that when you are dealing with

issues like, I don't know, North Korea, or even domestic policy

questions, you've got a White House that is pulling in One Direction not

going off in different directions with everyone briefing against each

other, which has been the hall mark of these past six months. Thank you

very much. If you were watching on Wednesday,

you would have seen what I think was the only overseas broadcast

interview with Anthony Scaramucci in that post. It was our very own emity

Matlis who captured that scoop. You had a close up glimpse of the chaos.

Even before this happened there was a joke doing the rounds that the

former apprentice boss one Donald Trump thought he had to eliminate

one person each week, he somehow misunderstood the role of president.

Now we're on more than one a week. I spoke to him exclusively for the BBC

for Newsnight less than a week ago. There was a certain amount of chaos

even then. To put it in context, I was standing pretty much where Jon

was, that interview should never have happened. Scaramucci was

walking past behind me, taking selfies, as is the want of Trump

administration, before that infamous dinner. When I realised who it was,

I pulled out my ear piece and I tried to lure him onto Newsnight. It

was the thing that any journalist in my position would have done. The

curious thing was that he didn't seem to need to refer upwards. He

didn't ask me what I was going to ask him about. He didn't need to

know how long the interview would be or what it was about. He was

flattered. He came on - That's kind of what we like about the guy. As a

journalist, he is about as good as it gets. When I asked about the

British story of the day, the Brexit deal, chlorination chicken to coin a

phrase, he fessed up, "I know nothing about your chicken story. I

promise if you come back in a week's time, I will know chicken 100%."

Unfortunately that won't happen. There was an impromptu and that is

being kind, seat of the pants attitude, not just for me, but for

him. The way it's played out, it points to a deeper structural issue

about the way the White House runs. This is the curious thing. I talk to

members of the Trump administration quite often, not just Scaramucci and

the grown ups, shall we say, are keen to point out, they tell me,

ignore the schtik. That is their way to say, there is a lot of stuff

which is part hysteria, it's noise, it's the tweets, it's the press

briefings, it's President Trump making a lot of noise around was

going on. He says behind all that, there is actually a strategy. There

is something going on smoothly beneath the surface, that the media

doesn't see because the rest is entertaining. There is a sense

tonight that John Kelly has come in and decided to tighten the ship. One

member of the administration told me in confidence, they always get

excited when they see "recognisable adult behaviour" from the Trump

administration. That equates to a good day for them. Perhaps this is

General Kelly's way of saying it is not enough to go round telling me

like me to ignore the schtik, we have to shut down the circus, kille

clowns, make the fanfare -- kill the clowns and make the fanfare go away

and make people know there is a strategy to the White House. Thanks.

Joining us now from New York is Jacob Weisberg -

editor in chief of the online news site "Slate" and the presenter

The big question is - is Kelly going to instil some discipline on this

tumultuous White House? Well, first let's pause to savour for a minute

what we've just been through. In your wonderful interview last week,

Scaramucci said he wasn't a back stabber, he was a front stabber. But

he didn't go quite so far as to say he would be a front self-stabber

with such proefficiency. I mean even in this White House where the shelf

life of aides seems to range between milk and yoghurt this was incredibly

swift. I think General Kelly has a difficult task before him. I have no

doubt that he can function effectively as a gatekeeper for

Donald Trump. The question is whether President Trump will allow

himself to be gate kept. We know what a strong Chief of Staff looks

like in the White House and how they operate. There have been many

examples over the past several presidencies. That means the

president must not have separate private channels of communication

and Trump has shown zero ability to do. Some of his staff has professed

it as a philosophy, that chaos is a way of getting things done, smashing

systems that are broken and need replacing, this is all part of

disruption. Do you think Trump is persuaded, deep down persuaded, that

is not the way to get things done, that you need just a bit of

traditional governmental competence? No, I don't think he is persuaded. I

don't know that chaos is his theory, but it works for him. Creating more

chaos at the very least always changes the subject when he's in

trouble from one crisis to another. I think you've seen even in the last

week, which is by any standard about a chaotic as the White House has

gotten. Trump tweeted this morning that there is no White House chaos.

What it's done is it's removed the possibility of attention for

anything other than Trump. So the Democrats tried to roll out their

plan for the mid-terms, senator Schumer and Nancy Pelosi announced

their better deal which is their big initiative heading towards the

mid-terms. There was no oxygen left for it. I mean it was just a brief

flurry because within a few hours, Trump was attacking his own

Attorney-General and within a few days, he was bringing in Scaramucci

and you know, there's only so much space in the news. No-one was really

able to get to anything beyond Trump's chaos. No room for politics

as normal. Just in terms of who's up and who's down, which are the

different Donald Trumps, if you like, is going to prevail? The big

question is Steve Bannon, who has been a bit quiet in the last week.

Where is he out of all of this? It's funny Bannon, he got in trouble for

appearing on the cover of Time magazine with the headline that

suggested he was the real power rather than Trump. There's nothing

riskier to do in the Trump White House than claim the lion's share of

the attention. I do think Bannon has learned his lesson. I mean, he's

been much less visible and prominent. There is an interesting

new book about him and Trump out, but he doesn't seem to be making any

effort to put himself in front of the cameras the way Anthony

Scaramucci obviously was doing all of the time. So I think Bannon has

hopes of survival but how he will get along with the new Chief of

Staff and the various other officials, it remains to be seen.

You wouldn't want to predict longevity for anybody in the White

House. You would have to say Kelly is looking pretty indispensable at

the moment because Trump, it would be embarrassing to lose Kelly in the

next three months and the way they were talking about him at the press

briefing this evening as having full authority, new structure and

discipline, everybody in the White House is reporting to Kelly, you

have to think now, Trump is trusting this guy. I would remain sceptical.

I think Trump will do what he wants to do. I think it places limits

around Trump's behaviour and probably the most important is it

will make it very difficult for Trump to fire the independent

counsel Robert Muller. I think Kelly would probably lay down in front of

a truck on that one and Trump would be faced with the choice of

embarrassingly losing his new Chief of Staff or going through with what

he probably does want to do. Thanks very much.

As we reflect on the movie of the moment, Dunkirk, and mark the 100th

anniversary of Passchendaele, it is possible to be optimist being about

the state of the world or pessimistic. Optimist being because

we haven't been involved in a war on the scale of the first and Second

World War in 70 years. But eeconomists use that term great

moderation just before the financial crash. The quiet can foretell the

storm. And it is hard not to look at world affairs right now without

concern, whether it is the conflicts that have erupted in the Middle

East, the deteriorating relationship between Russia and the US or the

potential for a North Korean ballistic missile to strike the

West. Is it time to worry? Passchendaele from the sky after the

battles of the First World War. Just 80 miles from Britain, a scene of

total devastation of the kind that most of us have not experienced.

Today, the shape of Passchendaele is unmistakably the same yet it is now

just a pleasant Belgian village, proof that the world can escape the

darkness of the past. And yet new darkness can come, the world today

is undeniably in a volatile and brutal phase. We will handle North

Korea. We will be able to handle them.

It will be handled. We handle everything. Thank you very much. No

one has worked out a way to deal with the clear and present danger of

North Korea, a country led by a single-minded dictator with nuclear

weapons. This weekend he tested another ballistic missile, fired it

in the direction of Japan and rails against the US. Is this the most

foreseeable way to imagine a million or more people dying right now?

Making for an unstable backdrop, the jostling of global powers. Trump

blames China for not dealing with North Korea and has new problems

with Putin. Each leader has something to prove, the world

struggles for an equilibrium. Vice President Mike Pence was in Estonia

today. No threat looms larger in the Baltic states than the spectre of

aggression from your unpredictable neighbour to the east. The Cold War

was of course, in the sense simple. What do I mean by that? That you had

two great blocks, the Warsaw Pact on the one hand, Nato on the other,

where it that compare to today? It is not so simple, it is much more

complicated, there are more actors on this difficult stage and

therefore, it is, in my view, more difficult to handle. For those in

Syria, they're probably already feels like the end of days, conflict

that has already lasted longer than world Wars one and two. The medieval

violence of so-called Islamic State adds to the sense of desperation. It

cannot kill on a nuclear scale but has taken terror well beyond its own

territory. And Syria is just one conflict in the region that is

fraught with explosive potential. First you have to know what happens

when an atomic bomb explodes. Of course in the nuclear age, there

have been periods of Basra we have felt that the end is nigh. Usually

human beings are capable of stepping from the brink, but the danger is

one thing leads to another as it did before the First World War. One

problem triggers the next, reaction leads to overreaction. Care must be

to ensure that what is relatively minor does not either by some intend

some wire or by accident grow into something more serious and more

threatening. A BBC war game exercise last year managed to arrive at a

scenario of tactical nuclear weapons being used in Europe. The Americans

have decided not to take our advice and have used a tactical nuclear

weapons to take out a target in Russia. It would be nice to dismiss

such outcomes as television talk are not the real world but the worrying

thing is that the years of peace in Europe have been historical

exception, rather than the norm. Let's reflect on how serious the

threat to the west and the world are.

James Jeffrey was deputy National Security Advisor and a US

ambassador to Iraq - he's in Washington.

Brian Lord was the deputy director of GCHQ, responsible for

Intelligence and Cyber Operations - he's in Bristol.

And Patricia Lewis is a nuclear physicist and arms control expert

who is the Research Director for International Security

I would like to start at Patricia maybe you can help me, do you the

possibility of what one might call a big war between major powers in the

world in the next 20 or 30 years? Yes I do. I see it as a possibility

if we do not learn the lessons of history. So, the bad news is that it

is very complicated and there are two major hotspots and there are

other smaller ones. We do not quite, we never know what will Tibet off,

but the good news is that we can learn from history. We do know what

has happened before and we have learned a great deals of the end of

the Second World War, the UN, all of its structures has helped us prevent

conflict and we know almost everything we need to prevent

conflict, it is a question of having the political

will to do it. To people like me who feel it is inconceivable because we

are too sensible now to do these silly things and let one thing led

to another and trigger a war, what we would surely sit down and sorted

out... That is not what human beings do. If you look through history,

people make mistakes, people get angry, they often misinterpret, we

have seen many occasions were something has happened and there has

been an overreaction. James Jeffrey, do you basically agree with Patricia

said there? Only partially. The reason we have not seen a return to

the first half of the awful 20th century is that during an after

World War II, the United States and the European partners added

countries around the world and have created a global collective security

system with financial trade, role of law and other aspects but at the

centre is collective security. By won the Cold War and was dealing

with regional problems such as Saddam Hussein since 1989 but now we

see the rise of Russia and China who want to challenge that system and to

some degree are cooperating with the regional actors such as North Korea

and Iran. The whole complex of threats taken together is quite

formidable. You are saying that you would link the different things, the

North Korea situation, the jostling between the big powers, these are

all linked in your view? Not a conspiracy against the West but that

people are organising with a mind to weakening the West? There is no

overall battleplan that Beijing and Moscow have agreed on, they have a

common ally of interest in undercutting the American security

system because it stands in the way of their alternative system which

you people in Europe understand from the 19th century, it is great

powers, expanding their influence until they run into another great

power. That is what led to the First World War and the Second World War.

We have tried over the past 70 years defied a different way forward and

they are challenging that and even though they do not coordinate on

every issue, there a high degree of commonality and the UN votes to

block action against North Korea and Iran, and they challenge it. Brian

Lord, tell us if you believe a big war is a possibility or whether

you're on the more optimistic and? I think a single big war is highly

unlikely but what we are seeing, I would agree that what we are seeing

is a challenge of traditional western approach to the world. All

we also are living through, is a world where the rigidity of Borders

is being broken down by technology, trade communication, the

availability of information is now no longer as controlled as it was.

We have an increasingly bellicose North Korea and Russia plane its

usual geopolitical games, whether it is a virtual real space or

cyberspace and we have a White House which is perceived from the outside

to be unusual and certainly unpredictable. What I would say is

the risk of a miscalculation is extremely real and a miscalculation

is in effect will have the same effect as a real conflict. Patricia

made that point as well. War may itself be very different and as an

expert on cyber security, one of the things we need to think about is not

thinking what it looks like an 20th-century terms but potentially,

is cyber the form it takes on the 21st-century? I don't think it is as

binary as that, you have the ability for states to be able to use

activity online to be able to exert geopolitical effect all the way

through to destructive effect. One of the areas for miscalculation is

we are looking at an area of the world where there are still no rules

of engagement, the ability to confuse is very high and the ability

to hide or deceive and put whose ever is' she want an activity is

very high understanding by a public of what a cyber attack means, the

lack of understanding of the capability of the reserve --

adversary is very different. It all plays into this confusion which if

people want to make a miscalculation or want to give the impression of

making a miscalculation, just continues to increase the risk.

Patricia, to me it would look like North Korea is in a different

category to all the other risks, more than the Middle East, because

North Korea, there is an unaccountable dictator, it is not

like the former Soviet Union, there is not a system that he is a part

of, it is just what he wants to has got nuclear weapons and

ballistic missiles. He is not the only one with nuclear weapons and he

does not have them yet, he has ballistic missiles but as far as we

are all aware, he is not at the point where he can make the missiles

with a warhead. There is still time to play for. North Korea is

different as a country, it does not have any friends and it has many

enemies. It is very unpredictable and we cannot understand what they

will do. In the Middle East it is unpredictable, however and we have

the West coming up against Russia, front to front, right in the middle

of a battle space. As Brian said, it has got cyberspace in there as well,

another set of tools. We have turmoil in the Middle East in the

Gulf, we have Israel still, do not forget that, it is very potent. All

of these could be the Serbia is, or the triggers. James Jeffrey, I am

interested in your take on North Korea, do you see it as slightly

different to some of the other risks, because the potential for

massive harm is there, if they get the final formula for nuclear

weapons. It is the most immediate crisis and it is very very dangerous

because it does have nuclear weapons and it can at least strike with

nuclear and commercial weapons the civilian population of South Korea.

Yes, it is special. On the other hand, it is not something in and of

itself, like Saddam Hussein in Iraq or Serbia 1015 years ago, this is a

country that is enabled by China. I disagree it does not have friends,

its long-range missiles are now mobile, which is very threatening

because they are on Chinese trucks. Those trucks are not something they

have 30 years ago, they are recent additions, the Chinese are enabling

in many different ways, the North Koreans basically to use them as a

chess piece against the United States and the western Pacific and

that is a real danger to us and to the entire region including

ultimately the Chinese. We need to leave it there. Thank you very much

indeed. Plenty to worry about. Anita Roddick found international

fame as the founder of the Body Shop She before anyone spotted the

potential of the ethical economy - business promoting itself as having

a mission bigger than making money, She built the company

in an unconventional way, and her character played a huge

part in its success. But she died a decade ago far

too young, having been She had contracted it decades

earlier from a contaminated blood transfusion received

while giving birth. Well, a couple of weeks ago,

the government announced that there will be an inquiry

into the scandal of contaminated transfusions, an issue

about which the daughter of Anita Roddick

understandably feels strongly. Sam Roddick has been

speaking to our special You know what, she was one in a

million. She challenged the unchallengeable. She challenged the

stock market, she challenged business, she challenged her peers

and the way business was done and she did it in a way that was braver

than whatever is in existence today. Welcome to the video... For 30 years

Anita Roddick did not realise she had unknowingly contracted hepatitis

C from contaminated blood. Her daughter remembers the moment her

mother broke the news and explained the cause was the blood transfusion

she received after complications giving birth to Sam. Got through the

transfusion when I was born. And you know I could really hear the

vulnerability in her voice. Because my mum really feared death. So she

had a phrase which was, isn't it amazing, Sam, every year you pass

the date of your death and you don't know it. Thousands of people

contracted hepatitis C, some got HIV and we know about that now. To step

back from it and think, she went into hospital to have a baby and she

came out with this disease and did not know about a that time. For her

to be able to contract that during something that was such a kind of,

and normal procedure, is really sad. The strange thing is, even I felt

responsible, like I, somehow, that sense, it is ironic, because you

think as a baby, I can protect my mum, she was going on, she was

pregnant with me. There is that first level of irrevocable,

unconscious guilt, it is just ridiculous, but it still exist. And

if she had found out earlier, what would that have meant? She could

have had a treatment, really early, possibly at the time, but she could

not have it because of her high blood trash -- blood pressure, she

could not get a liver transplant, she was literally deteriorating. She

was exhausted. She could have got a lot of medical assistance. Good she

have survived much longer? I think she could have. Who do you blame?

Personally. I love the NHS, I actually think it is the backbone of

British society, I would fight for the NHS the whole time. The people

who were making money out of this large pharmaceutical corporations,

that is who I kind of they are the ones, who really violated good

governance. Did your family think about suing?

No, we aren't people who sue. The best thing we can serve is by

highlighting this issue and appealing for people to come forward

if they've needed or had the procedure of a blood transfusion

during the dates that have been highlighted and to get tested. I

personally think that anybody who has been affected who doesn't come

from my financial background should sue. There has been a huge law suit

in America of Bayer and a number of corporations held responsible. I

mean, in the billions got paid out. The Prime Minister announced an

inquiry recently into this, what was your reaction to that? There needs

to be a true independent inquiry. I think it is now about stepping

forward and really trying to put the pieces together about why and how

this occurred and those responsible should be held accountable. I

definitely believe when you actually look at the significant amount of

contaminated blood, it seems impossible for there not to be an

enormous number of people that this touches. It must have been

incredibly painful to watch your mother deteriorate. Yeah, it was

incredibly painful. It was incredibly painful to see somebody

so powerful, so effective, so energetic, somebody who has a lust

for life really have to face her limitations at a time where it was

cut short. Like, you know, our family had a huge loss. But the

world had a huge loss too. She was the first company to open up a

creche in her factory, so people could breast-feed and continue on

caring for their children during lunch time. I think that was, shows

how she loved her workforce and wanted to create a humane

environment. The fact that she changed EU law and got the Anirban

of animal testing -- got the ban of animal testing in the EU showed how

complished she was when she put her mind to do. All her campaigns were

phenomenal, the recycling, the sourcing. She was the first person

to take Fairtrade out of the charity sector and put it into the

commercial environment. You don't seem to be either bitter or angry,

but maybe that's just... I'm not angry. I'm sad. There's bitterness

which will eat at your own soul. A part of my utilising my anger is by

being available to highlight this issue and trying to encourage and

support people to make those accountable be accountable. That's a

really healthy way to channel your, my anger any way. Presumably you

miss her every day, do you? Oh, yeah, I miss her every day.

The directors of the collapsed Kids Company - including

Camilla Batmangelidge and Alan Yentob - have been told

that they face proceedings to bar them from serving

Any such disqualification does have to be tested in the courts.

Chris Cook broke the story of problems at Kids Company,

What did we learn exactly today. We know that the eight final directors

at kids company, plus Camilla Batmangelidge, who wasn't director

at the time, will be all considered culpable for the collapse of the

charity and way it was run. They face between two-and-a-half and six

years, if the process goes through, disqualified from being able to hold

offices of responsibility in relation to companies. It's quite a

serious process. If they get someone to act on their behalf, that person

can get disqualified. It reflects the serious problems at the charity.

If you look down the list of things you can be disqualified for, there

are a few things you can tick off. Terrible record keeping. They

claimed to have 15,000 clients. We still only have records of around

2,000. They used to run what they referred to as the bully strategy,

telling people if you don't put us money we'll collapse and what will

happen to the children. The gap between the trading while insolvent,

which gets you disqualified is pretty thin. Is it normal for

Charity Trustees or directors to be told they can't run companies? Is it

fair take someone running a charity and apply this sanction? If we want

charities to have real responsibility it probably is fair.

You can't have a situation where people are allowed to do this as a

hobby job and it has no consequences. The charities do

really matter. You think large charities like kids company, which

got ?47 million of public money, this is not a trivial thing. The

role it played in people's lives isn't trivial. The trustees have to

take it seriously. Thank you very much.

Is it right that details of the sexual relations of Charles

Channel 4 is controversially poised to play recordings

of Diana talking in detail about the breakdown of her marriage

Diana was preparing for her interview on Panorama,

but the tapes go further than the programme itself.

But is Diana entitled to some kind of privacy in death,

of a kind that she was rarely accorded in life?

With me now are the historian and biographer, Tracy Borman,

and the Guardian columnist Dawn Foster.

I think you think Channel 4 are right to basically show these tapes

and give us the full story. Why do you think so? I think first of all,

there's a really huge public interest in Diana. We saw that in

19le 7. -- 1987. We see it now. People are fascinated by her, by

what happened to her in life and also, exactly how different she was

to the Royals. I think for me and many other people she felt stage

managed in life. She felt really cloistered and bound by the Royal

Family. This gives us a chance to learn more about her and what she

maybe would like to have said, if she hadn't been in such a - Are

people trying to stop Channel 4 doing it, are they the ones trying

to control the media? Or trying to control Diana, or does it matter

what Diana thought would happen to these tapes when she recorded them

or what she wanted at the time? I think it's very difficult to say

what she may have wanted to be put out there. In death obviously we

have a huge interest in her. Equally, there's so much we don't

know about her that maybe people want to know. I think the fact she

was speaking to somebody else about it, preparing for Panorama and

clearly wanted to get some of this out there, is maybe a hint that she

wanted more of her personal life out there. Let's be honest, NBC have

shown a lot of this in the States. You can track it down if you want

to. It's not quite as unknown as it might be. Do you see any historical

significance or anything that we'll learn from watching this Channel 4

programme? As Dawn said, there isn't much new in terms of revelations.

But I think the point is that they weren't necessarily intended for

broadcast. I do think that it's inappropriate. Certainly when you

look at them as historical documents, the National Archives

wouldn't release anything unless sensitivity checks had been carried

out, including the effect on living persons. Of course, there are still

some significant others of Diana who this will affect deeply I think.

You're thinking of the children or Charles? I'm thinking of the

children more. I understand that there was talk of making a

documentary of this ten years ago, it was Sheffield. The BBC --

shelved. The BBC was going to look at this and then backed out when

they saw the minefield it was. Does it matter to you the brother, the

kids, basically everybody who does speak for Diana, who might say they

do because they're nuclear family, not royalty, if they say we don't

want this stuff aired in public, does that not matter in I think

public interest is key here. The family themselves can protect

themselves from it. Equally, when I was at university, I read James

Joyce's salacious letters to his wife. He probably didn't want them

to be in the public domain. But they are. They form part of what we think

of Joyce as a character and a public figure. Often, what we don't expect

to be in the public domain will be afterwards because there is so much

public interest in people. Is there a time theme here? The national

archive say there's a 30-year rule. But only when sensitivity checks are

carried out. We have more and more restrictive, I mean when you look at

the history of private life, the Tudors for example, they laid it all

bare and gladly so. They wanted to boast about their marital relations.

Like Scaramucci, say what we think. Very topical. They would have wanted

their subjects to take an interest in their love lives in all forms. I

wonder whether we, you keep saying public interest, it's the

distinction between interest of the public and the public interest isn't

it and whether there is a public interest in this. For many Diana

symbolised a sea change in British history. Moving to a more open, you

know tied in with the Advent of Blair. People are very interested in

how she stood at the crux of history. We're going to leave it

there, thank you very much for coming in.

That's all for tonight. Let's finish by returning to Passchendaele. We

saw a little earlier, we end with a closer up and sometimes gruesome

look at what that battlefield really looked like in the summer and Autumn

of 1917. The pictures are accompanied by the firemen of the

town of Ypres sounding the Last Post. Good night.

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