John Fairley
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John Alexander Fairley FRTS (born 15 April 1938)[1] is a British former television producer from Yorkshire. With William Allison he wrote the 1978 book The Monocled Mutineer, made into a well-known 1986 BBC One controversial drama series, adapted by Alan Bleasdale.
Early life[]
He was born in Liverpool. He attended a direct-grant grammar school in North West England, then went to The Queen's College, Oxford.
Career[]
Newspapers[]
He started at the Bristol Evening Post in 1963, then went to the London Evening Standard in 1964.
Radio[]
From 1965-68 he was a radio producer with BBC Radio.
Yorkshire Television[]
He worked for Yorkshire Television (now ITV Yorkshire). He was a television producer from 1968-78. He became Managing Director of Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television in 1993 until April 1995. He was replaced on 15 May 1995 by Bruce Gyngell, the former managing director from 1984-92 of TV-am. During his employment at Yorkshire Television, he was the Producer of the cave diving documentary The Underground Eiger.[2]
Publications[]
He has written books with .
- The Monocled Mutineer, 1978, about the Étaples mutiny, written with
Personal life[]
He lives in North Yorkshire, in Eddlethorpe in Ryedale. He is married and has three daughters.
See also[]
- Ward Thomas (television executive), former chairman from 1993-97 of Yorkshire Television
References[]
- ^ Companies House
- ^ "The Underground Eiger". BFI. British Film Institute. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
External links[]
- 1938 births
- Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford
- British radio producers
- British television executives
- British television producers
- Channel 4 people
- Fellows of the Royal Television Society
- Horse racing mass media in the United Kingdom
- ITV people
- Mass media in Yorkshire
- People from Ryedale (district)
- Television personalities from Yorkshire
- Living people