John Fisher

Leeds-born freelance journalist John Fisher was 12 years old when he won an audition to appear on BBC Radio Children's Hour in two plays by Margaret Potter. #000d #000d Three years later he joined top Leeds amateur drama group the Proscenium Players at Leeds Civic Theatre where he stayed for twenty years prior to acting with the potato Room Players in a twelve-year stint appearing in musical drama at Leeds City Varieties.#000d #000d In 1998 he was recruited by the Yorkshire Evening Post to write a community column about the north Leeds Jewish and wider community, and continued to do so for the next twelve years. An invitation to become a Leeds reporter for the Jewish Chronicle was accepted in 2005. A founder presenter for the city's Radio Jcom found him fronting two programmes, Negev Desert Tracks (a Jewish version of Desert Island Discs) and a programme devoted to poetry and prose Poets' Corner. #000d His first book was An Audience of Curious People published in 2010 and told the story of Jewish drama group the Proscenium Players since its inception in 1948 to its folding in the late 1990's.#000d #000d He is also the author of Painting the Town Silver, telling the lives and times of Leeds icon Leslie Silver OBE (published 2015)#000d