Eleanor Jane Scoones

Eleanor Jane Scoones (20 January 1981 – 2 July 2023) was an English television producer and director. A history graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, she worked on programmes presented by the historian Lucy Worsley and others broadcast on multiple British television channels such as BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Four, Channel 4 and Channel 5.

Biography Scoones was born on 20 January 1981, in Stepney, East London. She was the daughter of the English language teacher to foreign students Philip Anthony Francis Scoones and the National Trust worker Jane Francesca . Scoones moved to Hammersmith when she was four and was educated at St Paul's Girls' School in London. In 2011, she made the first collaboration with the historian Lucy Worsley when she was the assistant producer of the series If These Walls Could Talk broadcast on BBC Four in 2011. and both Dancing Cheek to Cheek: An Intimate History of Dance and Dan Cruickshank: At Home With The British for BBC Four.

Personal life Scoones was married to the finance worker Xavier and had two children with him. She died of ovarian cancer on 2 June 2023.