{{Short description|British television producer}} {{about||the Scottish lawyer|John Douglas Fairley, Lord Fairley}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{BLP sources|date=April 2017}} '''John Alexander Fairley''' [[Royal Television Society|FRTS]] (born 15 April 1938)<ref>{{Cite web |title=John Alexander Fairley |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/qciRnj39SOK_eK1uzp8qGWHBfXw/appointments |access-date=23 December 2023 |website=[[Companies House]] |language=en}}</ref> is a British former [[television producer]] from [[Liverpool]], who now lives in [[Yorkshire]].<ref name="Highfield Princess">{{Cite web |last=Berry |first=Chris |date=14 January 2023 |title=Highfield Princess: At the Yorkshire yard of former Channel 4 Racing boss John Fairley's 'fastest sprinter in Europe' |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-farming/highfield-princess-at-the-yorkshire-yard-of-former-channel-4-racing-boss-john-fairleys-fastest-sprinter-in-europe-3985786 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231223102649/https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-farming/highfield-princess-at-the-yorkshire-yard-of-former-channel-4-racing-boss-john-fairleys-fastest-sprinter-in-europe-3985786 |archive-date=23 December 2023 |access-date=23 December 2023 |website=[[The Yorkshire Post]]}}</ref> 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]].<ref name="Highfield Princess" /> He attended MerchantTaylor's school in Crosby, Merseyside and then went to [[The Queen's College, Oxford]].
==Career== ===Newspapers=== He started at the ''[[Bristol Post|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 (now [[ITV Yorkshire]]). 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]]''.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6dc39959| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924085949/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6dc39959| url-status=dead| archive-date=24 September 2021| website=BFI| publisher=British Film Institute| title=The Underground Eiger|access-date=6 July 2018}}</ref>
==Publications== He has written numerous books with [[Simon Welfare]].
* ''[[The Monocled Mutineer]]'', 1978, about the [[Étaples mutiny]], written with [[William Allison (journalist)|William Allison]]
* ''[[Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World]]'', published by Fontana 1980, written with [[Simon Welfare ]] and [[Arthur C Clarke]]
* ''[[Arthur C Clarke's World of Strange Powers]]'', published by Collins 1984, written with [[Simon Welfare ]] and Arthur C Clarke
* ''[[Arthur C Clarke's Chronicles of the Strange and Mysterious]]'', published by HarperCollins 1987, written with [[Simon Welfare ]] and Arthur C Clarke
* ''[[Arthur C Clarke's Mysteries]]'', published by Michael O'Mara Books Ltd. 1998, written with [[Simon Welfare ]]
==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 to 1997 of Yorkshire Television
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20210803224446/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba14d0726 John Fairley at BFI] * {{IMDb name|0265607}} * [https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/John-Fairley/a/2615 Pen and Sword – John Fairley]
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