John Fairley
John Alexander Fairley FRTS is a British former television producer from Liverpool, who now lives in 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 MerchantTaylor's school in Crosby, Merseyside and 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 to 1968, he was a radio producer with BBC Radio.Yorkshire Television
He worked for Yorkshire Television. He was a television producer from 1968 to 1978. 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 to 1992 of TV-am.During his employment at Yorkshire Television, he was the Producer of the cave diving documentary The Underground Eiger.