Victor Lewis-Smith

Victor Lewis-Smith is a British comic broadcaster, producer, critic and prankster. He was educated at the University of York and still lives in York. He is known for his acerbic wit and biting criticism (often in questionable taste).

Radio and recordings

In the late 1980s he did a weekly surreal comedy spot on BBC Radio 4's arts review programme Loose Ends, often involving hoax phone calls.

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1980s - BBC Radio 4 - Loose Ends

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He also broadcast two comedy series on BBC Radio 1, and made several surreal radio commercials.

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BBC Radio 1 - Radio

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In 1991 he released a CD and cassette entitled Tested on Humans for Irritancy, which was drawn from his broadcasts on Loose Ends and Radio 1. A second cassette Nuisance Calls was released by Lewis-Smith's own company, Associated Rediffusion and was chiefly comprised of extended and unused phone calls from the Radio 1 series (a couple of musical numbers also appeared). Some of these calls later appeared in TV Offal.

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1991 - Associated Rediffusion - TV Offal

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