New BBC chairman due next month

How the chairman is chosen

The new chairman of the BBC will be named next month, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell has said.

Ms Jowell told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she expected a successor to Gavyn Davies - who resigned in January - to be named in April.

Presenter David Dimbleby, ex-Channel 4 head Michael Grade and Liberal Democrat politician Lord Watson are among those who have been interviewed for the job.

Gavyn Davies resigned after the BBC was criticised in the Hutton Report.

Ms Jowell also insisted the government would not use the review of the BBC's charter to take revenge on the corporation over the report.

"I have had discussions with the prime minister about this," she said.

"There is an absolutely clear determination to make sure that charter review is a process quite separate from Lord Hutton's inquiry and the aftermath."