david yelland, former editor of the sun and now runs a pr firm, kitchen table partners.s a investigative reporter and fronted last week's panorama on martin bashir and the bbc. jane martinson is professor ofjournalism at city college. welcome to you all. jane, you have been writing about this for the guardian. how do you assess the scale of the reaction to this story? the scale of the reaction, i mean, you know, this is a devastating report for the bbc. it involved the royal family, it involved, you know, wrongdoing and, sort of, terrible mishandling of a wrongdoing 25 years ago — including numbers of the bbc ——of a wrongdoing 25 years ago — including members of the bbc who then went on to hold senior jobs, and, of course, which i am sure we will come on to talk about, a reporter who subsequently left and then returned to the bbcjust five years ago. so, the reaction was obviously going to be huge. the timing is terrible for the bbc, and i would argue terrible for all of us who care about ethicaljournalism and public service broadcasting. the government has made no secret