RED by James Hogan (2016)

Jean Seaton: Self

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• Jean Seaton : I'm really worried that the BBC has been stopped doing some things that would have been in our national interest. The most obvious of that would be supposing it had launched a public service search engine in about 2001, what a different world we would live in. Would we be under the monopoly of Google? No.

• Jean Seaton : Two gentlemen from the BBC arrived at my office door. I thought it might have something to do with the BBC but I didn't know... I mean, I knew that but I didn't know what and they asked me to do it, to write the book. And to say you could have knocked me over with a feather and picked me off the floor afterwards...

• Jean Seaton : Asa made 1,800 mistakes; nobody has ever complained of one of them, not one because I think they didn't... you know, I don't really want to dwell on that but, you know, Lord Asa Briggs on the Labour benches, a great historian, Vice Chancellor of Sussex, Worcester College, the Open University, a great radical historian but a great man. I'm just very evidently not a great woman; I'm just not. I'm a person who has done my best and I don't have any of those defences that make people kowtow to me. So I think that's not made it easy. And they've made a decision that they now won't do another volume of the history of the BBC until everybody is dead.