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Stephen Smith
@StephenSmithWDS
Radio 4 Profile,words in Observer, FT, Art Newspaper & more Ex Newsnight, C4 News Email: [email protected] Read me @ authory.com/StephenSmith1
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    Stephen Smith
    @StephenSmithWDS
    Aug 20, 2025
    I’ve no skin in the game now but the end of reporting in much BBC news coverage makes it a strangely bland, frictionless experience. No sense of real life penetrates the airless bunkers of @BBCPM @BBCNewsnight and more: only the chatter of talking heads, shills & lobbyists…
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    Stephen Smith
    @StephenSmithWDS
    Sep 27, 2022
    Some professional news: and it’s goodnight from me for the last time @BBCNewsnight. What larks we had: Student House, Motorway Man, Big Society, Hitchhiker’s Guide to Brexit. I was fortunate to meet a who’s who of everyone who matters in arts & culture, from Scorsese to Stormzy..
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    Stephen Smith
    @StephenSmithWDS
    Apr 26, 2016
    Hanging out with Benedict Cumberbatch on set of #Sherlock at Borough Market (all true, except the hanging out bit)
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    Stephen Smith
    @StephenSmithWDS
    Feb 4, 2019
    In his first tv interview for many years, the reclusive genius of English pop, Paddy McAloon of Prefab Sprout, tells us about his new album, his v good Paul McCartney story, and what 'hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque' was all about @BBCNewsnight @bbcarts
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    Stephen Smith
    @StephenSmithWDS
    Sep 18, 2020
    Join us in Lake District w best-selling author @herdyshepherd1 whose family has been farming there for 600 yrs. Fed up with ‘industrial’ methods, he rediscovered his grandad’s lessons, turning back the clock to work in sympathy with nature @BBCTwo #Newsnight @BBCNewsnight 10.45
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    Stephen Smith
    @StephenSmithWDS
    Jun 30, 2022
    This from ⁦@JANUSZCZAK⁩ in the new ⁦@RadioTimes⁩ ⁦@arthistorynews⁩
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    Stephen Smith
    @StephenSmithWDS
    Dec 22, 2024
    Good debut for the new ‘tec in #DeathinParadise but the real star and iron horse is of course the great @Don_warrington as Commissioner Patterson: the sidecar, the rumpled fatigues, the repertory-company honed command of the St Marie accent
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    Stephen Smith
    @StephenSmithWDS
    Jul 29, 2023
    Replying to @SoVeryBritish
    The way your sorry hair seems to rally a little after you’ve decided to have it cut, and never looks finer than just before you take your seat at the barber’s. The fact that you can only ever have one of two haircuts: I) a bad one; ii) a worse one
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    Stephen Smith
    @StephenSmithWDS
    Apr 4, 2023
    “Tweets will no longer be treated as throwaway remarks but like liver-spotted manuscripts of Beowulf and the Canterbury Tales” ⁦@bodleianlibs⁩ to keep Twitter accounts of ⁦@wmarybeard⁩ ⁦@campbellclaret⁩ ⁦@stephenfry⁩ & more. My piece in ⁦@Telegraph⁩
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    Stephen Smith
    @StephenSmithWDS
    Sep 12, 2016
    After BBC loses #GBBO to @Channel4, Tony Hall said to be in fierce bidding war tonight to keep @BBCNewsnight out of hands of QVC
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    Stephen Smith
    @StephenSmithWDS
    Sep 27, 2022
    Replying to @StephenSmithWDS
    ..If you have been, thanks very much for watching, and see you around (more follows, as we old hacks say..) @bbcarts
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    Stephen Smith
    @StephenSmithWDS
    Jun 22, 2016
    Gong for best artist name @ BP Portrait Awards goes to Jean-Paul Tibbles. (This is his son) @NPGLondon @bbcnewsnight
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    Stephen Smith
    @StephenSmithWDS
    Jan 29, 2015
    Is Twitter ruining concentration? A brain expert thinks so.Join @arfur smith @bbcnewsnight. Also tonight: is Twitter ruining concentration?
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    Stephen Smith
    @StephenSmithWDS
    Dec 29, 2023
    Replying to @BBCSimonJack
    Hi Simon: what about using your platform on the BBC to run some business stories on the state of the railways. Maybe you’ll get some answers that way
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