Jean Seaton

Who is Jean Seaton?

Jean Seaton is Professor of media history at the University of Westminster.

She is the official historian of the BBC, who is continuing Asa Briggs' multi-volume account of the Corporation's history with the next volume The BBC Under Siege in preparation. Her other books include Power Without Responsibility now in its seventh edition. Seaton was first Chair of the judges of the Orwell Prize in 2007, a role she retains.

Jean Seaton is the widow of the historian Ben Pimlott whom she married in 1977; the couple had three children.