Simon Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a writer and broadcaster.
Education
Fanshawe was educated at two boarding independent schools: at Chafyn Grove School in the cathedral city of Salisbury in Wiltshire, and Marlborough College in the market town of Marlborough in Wiltshire, followed by the a few miles from the city of Brighton, where he studied law.
Career
He contributes frequently to British newspapers, television and radio. He is also now a consultant and non-executive director of public and private organisations. Since then, Fanshawe has been a very frequent contributor on a variety of subjects from arts to politics in newspapers and on many British Broadcasting Corporation radio and television programmes.
His British Broadcasting Corporation 4 profile light-heartedly describes him as a "media tart".
Fanshawe has also been involved in many community and campaigning groups and public bodies – often as a board member. He led the successful campaign to make Brighton and Hove a city in 2000.
He was the chairman of the board for the Brighton Festival Fringe and is on the board of the Edinburgh Fringe. He was chairman of Brighton & Hove Local Limited from 1996 to 2000, when the company was acquired by Forever Broadcasting.
Fanshawe studied law at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England, and is now chair of the university"s governing council, for which he was appointed Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to higher education.
Fanshawe now lives in the Kemp Town area of Brighton. In 2006, Fanshawe made the documentary The Trouble with Gay Men, shown on British Broadcasting Corporation Three. In 2007, Fanshawe presented the first programme in the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Building Britain series, concentrating his attentions the key role of developers in making cities over the last two centuries.
Fanshawe has contributed articles to the following publications:
The Guardian
The Observer
The Sunday Times
The Daily Telegraph
Evening Standard
Time Out
Punch
Fanshawe has been a presenter or contributor on the following radio programs:
Kaleidoscope
Sunday Brunch
Fanshawe on Five
The Reference Library
Live From London
Fanshawe Gets to the Bottom Of.
Loose Ends
The Motion Show.
Membership
He was a founding member of Stonewall.