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Jenny Abramsky

Dame
Jenny Abramsky
DBE
BBC Director of Audio and Music
In office
2006 – June 2008
Succeeded by Tim Davie
Personal details
Born Jennifer Gita Abramsky
7 October 1946
Nationality British
Alma mater University of East Anglia

Dame Jennifer Gita "Jenny" Abramsky, DBE (born 7 October 1946) is chairman of the UK's National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF). The NHMF makes grants to preserve heritage of outstanding national importance. Until her retirement from the BBC Abramsky was its most senior woman employee; she was Director of Audio and Music. She is the daughter of Professor Chimen Abramsky and the granddaughter of Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky. She was educated at Holland Park School in London and the University of East Anglia, where she read English.

Born to a Jewish family, she was the daughter of Miriam, a social worker and former communist who was in Brick Lane during Oswald Mosley's fascist marches, and Chimen Abramsky, a professor of Jewish studies and rare book expert. One of her grandfathers was Yehezkel Abramsky, a prominent Orthodox rabbi and scholar who was jailed by the Soviet Union and later headed the London Beth Din for 17 years. She was educated at Holland Park Comprehensive and then completed her university education at East Anglia.

In 1969, she joined the BBC as a programmes operations assistant, and in 1973 was appointed as a producer of The World at One. She became the first woman editor of the agenda-setting Today programme, ran the first Gulf War Radio 4 News FM service, and went on to launch Britain's first continuous news and sport radio station, Five Live, before launching the television channel BBC News 24. She launched the BBC's online news website, news.bbc.co.uk. She was named Director of BBC Radio in January 1999 and was subsequently promoted to the BBC's Executive Board with overall responsibility for BBC Radios 1, 2, 3, 4, and Five Live and the BBC's digital radio stations 1Xtra, BBC 7, 6 Music, Five Live Sports Extra and the Asian Network; the three BBC orchestras based in England; and the Proms. In 2006 she became Director of Audio and Music – adding online services, audio on demand and podcasting to her remit of broadcast radio.


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