Career
He first came to public attention as a stand-up comedian, winning the prestigious Perrier Award in 1989, and on the television programme That's Life!.
Since then he has been a very frequent contributor on a variety of subjects from arts to politics in newspapers and on many BBC radio and TV programmes. His BBC Radio 4 profile light-heartedly describes him as a "media tart".
Fanshawe has also been involved in many community/campaigning groups and public bodies - often as a board member. He led the campaign to make Brighton and Hove a city in 2000. He was a founding member of Stonewall. He was the chairman of the board for the Brighton Festival Fringe and is on the Board of the Edinburgh Fringe. He founded and chaired the Economic Strategy body of his home town, The Brighton & Hove Economic Partnership.
He 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 Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to higher education.
He lives in the Kemptown area of Brighton.
In 2006 he made the documentary "The Trouble with Gay Men", shown on BBC Three.
In 2007 he presented the first programme in the BBC's Building Britain series, concentrating his attentions the key role of developers in making cities over the last two centuries.
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