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English broadcaster and radio personality

For other people named Tim Smith, see Tim Smith (disambiguation).

Tim Smith (born 1961 in Swindon)^[1] is an English broadcaster and radio personality in the UK. He is best known as being part of the team for Steve Wright in the Afternoon on BBC Radio 2.^[2]

On 1 July 2022 Wright announced that his afternoon show would end in Autumn 2022, after 23 years.

It was also announced that Smith would be leaving BBC Radio 2, together with Janey Lee Grace.^[3]

Career

Smith started out on university radio whilst studying in York.^[2] From 1984 he worked for several stations including BBC Radio York and BBC Radio Shropshire. On 1 April 1989, after a short stint with BBC WM, Tim joined BBC Radio 1 to present a new weekend early show to coincide with the station starting its day at the earlier time of 5 am.^[4] He presented Top of the Pops on one occasion, alongside Ant