Fraser has been commissioning editor of BBC’s Storyville since it started in 1997. In recent years, films shown on Storyville have won many major awards, including an Oscar, a Grand Jury prize at Sundance, several Griersons and several Emmys.

He graduated from Exeter College, Oxford in 1969 with a first class degree in English. He has worked as a reporter and television producer and editor. Books published by him include a biography of Eva Peron, and The Voice of Hatred. Short Books published his book The Importance of Being Elton in 2006. He is proud of being a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine in New York, in which his essays about the BBC, Isaiah Berlin and anti-Americanism have been published.