seel-a-kanth, and the BBC should be ashamed of itself. When hot news breaks they have to have reporters on air before the pronunication department get to them, but this was hardly urgent, and mispronunciations are usually fixed by the bulletin one hour later.

The confusion of -ae- and -oe- comes from mediaeval Latin where they were both pronounced long -e-, and the italic forms (in hand or print) were virtually identical.