'Crisis at the BBC': what the Panorama team has found out

Tonight’s Panorama takes issue with the accounts of Newsnight Editor Peter Rippon and the BBC’s Director-General

George Entwistle

THE BBC Panorama special due to be broadcast at 10.35 tonight will suggest that the public has been misled by the BBC over the dropping of a 2011 Newsnight investigation into Jimmy Savile.

Although Panorama cannot prove that Newsnight editor Peter Rippon was pressured by his bosses to abandon the programme shortly before it was due for transmission, it has evidence to show that the reasons he has given publicly for dropping the investigation are disputed by members of his staff.

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