Background
His father was a telecommunications engineer
His father was a telecommunications engineer
He attended Sutton Valence School, Kent and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and he was then the science correspondent for the London Evening Standard and made numerous radio broadcasts in the 1960s.
His name became synonymous with ITN"s extensive live coverage of the Apollo moon landing missions. He died of cancer aged 67. Archive material collected by Fairley during his coverage of space missions became the basis of the Fairley Archive of Space Exploration (FASE)
Peter Fairley is Science Editor of Independent Television News, television Times and Capital Radio.
He has been reporting science and medicine for more than twenty years, and has written ten books
In 1968, he was chosen as Science Writer of the Year and awarded a Glaxo Travelling Fellowship. The award was used to finance the travelling needed to research this book
Peter Fairley calls pain "the most fascinating and possibly the most important subject I have ever tackled".
