Ben Pimlott, Political Writing and the Orwell Prize
Dermot Hodson interviews Prof. Jean Seaton to mark the launch of the new Ben Pimlott Writer in Residence Programme.
The Department of Politics at Birkbeck is pleased to announce the launch of the Ben Pimlott Writer in Residence Programme. This programme allows writers to spend up to a year at Birkbeck working on a book or series of articles on a political theme aimed at a broad readership. It is named in honour of the late Ben Pimlott, who was Professor of Politics and Contemporary History at Birkbeck and biographer of Hugh Dalton, Harold Wilson and Queen Elizabeth II. To mark the launch of the programme, Dr Dermot Hodson interviewed Prof. Jean Seaton, Professor of Media History at the University of Westminster, official historian of the BBC and Director of the Orwell Prize, about her late husband’s approach to political writing. See here for the interview on 10-gower-street.com.