Education
He was brought up in Hartlepool, County Durham and graduated from University College London.
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He was brought up in Hartlepool, County Durham and graduated from University College London.
His best-known work is The Giro Playboy. Smith has written and presented two six-part television series on British Broadcasting Corporation Four, Citizen Smith, examining what it means to be English (2008)" and Michael Smith"s Drivetime, a road movie exploring the cultural impact of the car (2009). They were followed by a one-hour televisual love-letter, A Journey Back to Newcastle: Michael Smith"s Deep North (2010).
Both series were produced and directed by Simon Egan of Bedlam Productions, who went on to co-produce the multi-Oscarand British Academy of Film and Television Arts-winning feature film, The King"s Speech.
Smith frequently makes films for BBC2"s The Culture Show - including a flâneur"s hymn to shopping malls. The regenerating East End of London.
And Doctor Dee, the opera by Damon Albarn. He has been heard on numerous radio stations, notably British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3, British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4, British Broadcasting Corporation London, and various regional stations.
Michael Smith regularly performs readings.
He held residencies at London"s Whitechapel Gallery and Shakespeare & Company in Paris. Festival gigs include: the Edinburgh Festival, Glastonbury, Durham Book Festival, Festival Number 6 (Portmeirion), Nova, Caught By The River Variety Show, Richmond-upon-Thames, Portuguese Eliot, Hay, Clerkenwell, Hackney and the Crossing The Border Festival in The Hague. London performances include: The Colony Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Filthy Macnasty"s, Boogaloo, Great Eastern Hotel and The Social.
And he has read at small venues in Newcastle, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh.