# Jean Seaton
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jean seaton (born 6 March 1947) is Professor of Media History at the University of Westminster and the Official Historian of the BBC. She is the Director of the Orwell Prize and on the editorial board of Political Quarterly. She is the widow of Ben Pimlott, the British historian.
== The Orwell Prize ==
Following Bernard Crick's retirement as Chair of the judges in 2006, Seaton took the position of Director of the Orwell Prize.
BBC Funding
With the longer term funding of the BBC under pressure, David Aaronovitch and guests explore the alternatives to the licence fee. How do other nations pay for their public service broadcasters?
Contributors:
Professor Jean Seaton, University of Westminster
Matt Walsh, Head of school of Journalism…
The BBC: Another 100 years?
If you turned on your wireless set 100 years ago, what would you have heard? Katie Razzall looks back at the earliest days of the BBC as it celebrates its centenary, hearing how the idea of a single, national broadcaster came into being.
Early broadcasts involved reading out railway timetables and…
Monocle Reads: Orwell Daily
Orwell Daily is a new email subscription from Substack that sends readers excerpts of George Orwell’s writings. Georgina Godwin speaks to Jean Seaton, the director of the Orwell Foundation and a professor of media history at the University of Westminster, about this new mailout and the author’s end…
BBC 100 - Kim Moore poem with women's voices, Auntie Beeb with Mel Giedroyc, former MP Anne Milton on Gavin Williamson
Today it is 100 years since the BBC began broadcasting on radio. To celebrate that centenary, we have commissioned a poem by Kim Moore and created a soundscape to show how much women’s lives, and the noises that surround them, have changed - using BBC archive from the 1920s right through to the pre…
Weekend Woman's Hour: BBC 100, Auntie Beeb with Mel Giedroyc, Incels, Women in Space
Monday marked 100 years since the BBC began broadcasting on radio. To celebrate that centenary, we commissioned a poem by Kim Moore and created a soundscape to show how much women’s lives, and the noises that surround them, have changed - using BBC archive from the 1920s right through to the presen…
Episode 11 - Jean Seaton
Jon Gisby is joined by Official Historian of the BBC and Professor of Media History at University of Westminster, Jean Seaton.
Produced by: Craig Connell, Jon Gisby & Pete Johnson
Film to 4K: Evolution of coronation media tech
It’s a King Charles III coronation tech and media special.
The newly-minted monarch’s big day will be streamed, broadcasted, tweeted, browsed and clicked in high dynamic range, real-time 4K across the world’s devices.
But its been some 70 years since the UK last saw a monarch’s coronation in the pr…
Empire of Tea - Episode 1
George Orwell described tea as “one of the mainstays of civilization in this country.” But how did this foreign plant become so British? Sathnam Sanghera speaks to Orwell expert Jean Seaton, cultural historian Kate Teltscher, and ramblers with flasks of tea in the Peak District, to try and figure o…
Can you ‘bomb-proof’ the BBC?
If someone wanted to take over British institutions like Trump's government has done in the USA, what would their first steps be—and how could we guard against them?
Joining Alan and Lionel in the Prospect studios is a panel of expert guests: Jean Seaton is Professor of Media History and the Offici…
80th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell's powerful political satire Animal Farm
On the 80th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell's powerful political satire Animal Farm, we hear about the author's motivations and the power of his storytelling from Professor Jean Seaton, director of the Orwell Foundation.
Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov is perhaps most famous for hi…
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