Nancy Banks-Smith

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Nancy Banks-Smith (born 1929) is a British television and radio critic, who spent most of her career writing for The Guardian .

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Life and career

Born in Manchester and raised in a pub, [1] she was educated at Roedean School.

Banks-Smith began her career in journalism in 1951 as a reporter at the Northern Daily Telegraph . In 1955, after a brief period at the women's section of the Sunday Mirror , she moved to the Daily Herald as a reporter. She worked for the Daily Express from 1960 to 1965 as a feature writer, moving to be a TV critic for The Sun in 1965. She left the newspaper in 1969 when it was bought by Rupert Murdoch. [2]

Banks-Smith began writing for The Guardian in 1970, with her television column becoming a leading feature of the newspaper. She remained with the paper for more than 50 years, [3] though by 2010 she no longer wrote daily reviews. [2] Until 2017, she wrote a monthly column for the paper entitled "A month in Ambridge", reviewing recent developments in the radio soap opera The Archers .

Awards

In 1970, she was recommended for the Order of the British Empire, which she declined. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Nancy Banks-Smith (2 March 2016). "Nancy Banks-Smith: 'I grew up in a pub – I thought Corrie was a documentary'". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  2. 1 2 Celebrating 40 years of Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 4 February 2010
  3. ↑ Nancy Banks-Smith (8 August 2022). "Nancy Banks-Smith on June Spencer: 70 years of muck and bullocks!". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
  4. ↑ "Some who turned honours down", The Guardian, 22 December 2003, retrieved 31 August 2012.


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