Neil Duncanson is an Emmy and three-time BAFTA-winning television executive, producer and writer.
He ran North One Television, one of Britain’s most creative and successful independent television production companies, for 35 years.
During that time he was behind thousands of hours of global television in sport, factual, documentary and factual entertainment programming (see TV section).
He won three BAFTAs as Executive Producer of ITV’s Formula One coverage, more than a dozen Royal Television Society awards and in 2024 an International Emmy for his work on the Disney series Brawn: The Impossible Formula One Story, which starred Keanu Reeves.
As an author, his book credits include four editions of The Fastest Men on Earth, Tales of Gold (with Patrick Collins), Crown of Thorns (with Norman Giller), and two children’s books. He discovered and edited the lost autobiography of Britain’s first black Olympic medallist Harry Edward, When I Passed The Statue of Liberty IBecame Black, which made the final of the 2024 William Hill Sports Book of the Year.
He is a member of the International Society of Olympic Historians, a rabid Crystal Palace fan and lives in Essex.