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I’m a writer and storyteller for TV commercials and sponsored films. You may know something about communities in Nigeria, the development of North Sea oil, or Twentieth Century British art from one of my films. Or you may have given blood or given up smoking through some of the commercials I worked on. Rather worryingly, while I was proud of most of what I produced, two featured in a British Library exhibition, ‘Propaganda’.
Having written on demand all my life, my first novel Homeward Bound was published in January 2020 and is contemporary fiction. A second, I’m Still Standing, followed, delayed in part through inheriting a dog, acquiring four grandchildren and trying to play tennis better, but mostly through sloth and inefficiency.
And now a third – Made For Walking is out at the end of June.
Life is much more than my writing bubble. My (very big) guilty pleasure is supporting a football team. I have been a supporter of the same team since I was a child, and this year, they are Premier league champions. Plus, I have been involved in behind the scenes activities with the club – hopefully doing some good – including being part of a small group that created the ‘tifos’ (giant banners that are raised pre-matches) and on working groups concerned with matchdays and security. Plus, working with the club and its mascot Gunnersaurus, to raise funds for a local foodbank.
And that’s all before working on my social media posts, which are updated every few days – so please keep visiting my Instagram/TikTok/Facebook pages @richardsmithwrites.
I have also created a YouTube page of some of my old films (plus some I’ve made more recently). The British Film Institute collected the master films that I held, but before they went, I copied them off and have been occasionally and randomly uploading them. It was mostly like a personal library for me, but feel free to browse – oddly, one went viral and collected 160,000 views before sanity was restored!
hi richard
like yourself i am an avid vinyl collector and would like to know if you ever dealt with greg vandike or deadwax records from huddersfield morgan kruck who ran deadwax was magic and i once bought a bo rhap blue vinyl queen off him in 1987 for £245 but greg was more dodgy !!!! who did you deal with in the 80s 90s ?? colin