John Ranelagh

John O'Beirne Ranelagh is a television executive and producer, and an author of history and of current politics.

[1] He read Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford, and went on to take a Ph.D. at Eliot College, University of Kent.

He started his career in television with the British Broadcasting Corporation, first for BBC News and Current Affairs on Midweek.

Later a member of the team that started Channel 4, he conceived the Equinox program,[2] developed the "commissioning system", and served as Board Secretary.

She had been a young American folklorist with her own WNYC radio program,[8] and thereafter became the noted author, E. L. Ranelagh (born 1914 New York, died 1996 London).