"Two Against 500" - Part Two

So, moving forward over a quarter of a century I contacted BBC Archives after I saw an old article in the Evening Standard from October 1996...

The article states: "According to confidential minutes of a programme review board meeting, he questioned whether Ms Rantzen should have been so "passionate" in her approach.".

I wrote to the BBC on 6th June 2023:

"I would be interested in viewing "confidential minutes of a programme review board meeting" (Evening Standard, 22nd October 1996) regarding an edition of "The Rantzen Report", broadcast 5th August 1996.

The meeting (presumably) took place between these dates but I do not know when precisely. There is a quote in the ES article which states that Will Wyatt was "then BBC managing director" so that would narrow down the date somewhat but I do not know when Mr. Wyatt took up his new position.

Given that these minutes were "confidential" I would understand if these were not in the public domain but also given that this is over a quarter of a century ago there might be a chance that they now are."

Two months later came the reply:

"I have now heard back from my colleague in Editorial Policy and the advice is that the minutes are still confidential and that they can't be made available to be shared externally."

So, I replied with a couple of questions...

"Could you just clarify a couple of matters?
1) Do the requested minutes have an embargo (lifting) date on them?
2) If so, could you tell me when the embargo would be lifted or, at minimum, reviewed?"

....and back came a reply, a month and a half later...

"I checked with my colleagues and in this instance, there is no date for when the minutes will be released.

The minutes can't be made available because they contain confidential information relating to a living individual. The minutes will only be reviewed when that person is deceased."

So that's where we are. 

How did Lisa O'Carroll get to know of the contents of the minutes?