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===Other interviews and programmes=== In 2003, Bashir presented a documentary titled ''Major Fraud'' detailing the story of [[British Army]] major [[Charles Ingram]], who attempted to cheat his way to the prize money in an unbroadcast episode of ''[[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (British game show)|Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Milmo|first=Cahal|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/millionaire-quiz-company-to-make-film-of-fraud-case-116137.html|title='Millionaire' quiz company to make film of fraud case|work=The Independent|date=22 April 2003|access-date=12 November 2020}}</ref> The original programme featuring Ingram, recorded in September 2001, was withheld from broadcast because the production team quickly became suspicious.<ref>{{cite news|last=Rosseinsky|first=Katie|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/tvfilm/watch-charles-ingram-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-episode-cheating-a4414281.html|title=What happened to Charles Ingram's infamous ''Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?'' episode?|work=Evening Standard|date=14 April 2020|access-date=12 November 2020}}</ref> The documentary had a larger audience than Bashir's interview with Michael Jackson.<ref>{{cite news|last=Wells|first=Matt|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/apr/23/broadcasting.uknews|title=Millions tune in to fraud show|work=[[The Guardian]] |date=23 April 2003|access-date=12 November 2020}}</ref> In December 2004, Bashir interviewed [[Victor Conte]], the controversial founder of [[Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative|BALCO]], on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s ''[[20/20 (US television series)|20/20]]'' programme, in which Conte admitted to running doping programmes involved in breaking [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] records, and in which Conte claimed: "The whole history of the games is just full of corruption, cover-up, performance-enhancing drug use."<ref>{{Cite web|date=2004-12-05|title=How drugs shattered America's Olympic dreams|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/dec/05/sport.media|access-date=2021-03-29|website=[[The Guardian]] |language=en}}</ref> Bashir also conducted interviews with public figures including [[Louise Woodward]], the five suspects in the [[Stephen Lawrence]] case, [[Michael Barrymore]], [[Jeffrey Archer]], [[Joanne Lees]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Minelle|first=Bethany|url=https://news.sky.com/story/who-is-martin-bashir-the-bbc-journalist-at-the-heart-of-the-princess-diana-interview-scandal-12128355|title=Who is Martin Bashir? The BBC journalist at the heart of the Princess Diana interview scandal|work=Sky News|date=10 November 2020|access-date=12 November 2020}}</ref> and [[George Best]].<ref name=resignation>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-57120603 |publisher=[[BBC News]] |title=Martin Bashir: BBC religion editor leaves the corporation |date=14 May 2021 |access-date=16 May 2021 }}</ref>
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