Fred Harrison

Author and Journalist

Born in 1944, Fred Harrison is a British author and journalist. He left his Fleet Street newspaper to study for his first degree (Philosophy, Politics and Economics at University College, Oxford), and then his MSc (Birkbeck College, London). 

In the 1980’s Fred returned to the Sunday People to conduct investigations into anti-social and criminal behaviour. This led him into the prison cell interviews with infamous Moors murderer Ian Brady; the first interviews ever conducted by a British journalist, in the cell of a serial killer. 

Over the last 35 years, Fred has authored books on the global property market. His latest book forecasts 2026 as the peak in global house prices in the current business cycle, the prelude to a depression with existential implications for humanity.

Fred is the Executive Producer and Chief Advisor to the new, ground-breaking theatre production My Secret Murders, skilfully crafted from the 16 hours of previously unheard tape recordings Fred made of his meetings with the psychopath between 1984 and 1985. 

These tapes contain Brady’s admissions that he and Myra Hindley were further responsible for the murders of Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett, admissions which led to the disinterment of 16-year-old Pauline Reade from her grave on the Yorkshire Moors, and the lifelong incarceration of Myra Hindley.