John Warburton

Who is John Warburton?

John Warburton is a British television producer and director, best known for his collaborations with television producer, critic and prankster Victor Lewis-Smith.

Warburton, who was born in 1964 and raised in Worcestershire, graduated in the mid-1980s from the Tonmeister music and sound recording course at the University of Surrey. During his time at the university, he became News and Features editor for University Radio Surrey. He went on to produce/present for various local radio stations, specialising in music including playwright Jeremy Sandford's documentary, "Songs from the Roadside", on the history and practice of British gypsy music. In 1997, he began working in television, collaborating on the series Ads Infinitum and the series TV Offal, both written by Lewis-Smith with Paul Sparks.

He and Lewis-Smith produced a documentary about the now-defunct BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Alchemists of Sound, which was broadcast on BBC Four in October 2003. The documentary Artie Shaw - Quest for Perfection, written and presented by Russell Davies and produced by Warburton was shortlisted for a Grierson Award in 2004.