Nick fraser bbc biography

          Eighteen years ago, Nick Fraser created BBC Storyville, producing films that won Oscars, BAFTAs, and Peabody Awards.

          Nick Fraser, an accomplished author, journalist, and documentary film producer, has played a pivotal role in shaping the landscape of factual storytelling.!

          The economy of docs is more fragile than it was five years ago,' says Nick Fraser, one of the world's key players in the field as the editor of the BBC's Storyville, the public broadcaster's renowned international documentary strand.

          'The promise has been fulfilled in the quality of titles but not always in the box office. Also, all the broadcasters are under pressure.'

          Fraser has first-hand experience of fragile economics: in 2007, the BBC threatened to cut Storyville's annual budget in half, from about $3.8m to $1.7m (£2.2m to £1m.) In uproar, the film-making community in the UK and beyond started a 'Save Storyville' campaign.

          Nick Fraser.

        1. Nick Fraser.
        2. Eighteen years ago, Nick Fraser created BBC Storyville, producing films that won Oscars, BAFTAs, and Peabody Awards.
        3. Nick Fraser, an accomplished author, journalist, and documentary film producer, has played a pivotal role in shaping the landscape of factual storytelling.
        4. Nick Fraser was born in London in , to a British father and French mother.
        5. Born in London to a French mother and an English father, Fraser was educated at Eton and Oxford.

          6. Luckily, the budget was not slashed by that much - now starting at about $2.6m (£1.5m) annually - and, Fraser notes happily, 'we can go and find extra money within the BBC for other special projects'.

          Storyville backs around 25 documentaries a year, down from 38 in recent years.

          'So the per-show investment isn't lower than before,' Fraser notes. An