Victor Lewis-Smith

Victor Lewis-Smith is a British film, television and radio producer, a TV and restaurant critic and newspaper columnist. He is Executive Producer of the ITV1 National Food & Drink Awards. He is a music graduate from the University of York. He is a long-standing contributor to Private Eye Magazine.

Lewis-Smith owns a film, TV and radio production company called Associated-Rediffusion, and was the executive producer of a series of the company's documentaries. such as the BAFTA-winning, Dudley Moore – After the Laughter, for BBC One's Omnibus). He owns an 18th-century chateau in Northern France.

Lewis-Smith is writer and executive producer of Keith Allen's documentaries for Channel 4. These documentaries, which began in 2003, have featured (amongst others) meetings with transsexual Lauren Harries, lottery winner Michael Carroll, billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed, cook Keith Floyd, and Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, broadcast by Channel 4. His critically acclaimed The Undiscovered Peter Cook was transmitted on BBC Four in November 2016.

Lewis-Smith is executive producer of a series of more than 60 TV programmes called 21st Century Bach - The Complete Organ Works. The series started on BBC Two in June 2003, and has since aired on Sky Arts. He is the executive producer of In Confidence presented by Laurie Taylor, a series consisting of 76 hour-long interviews for Sky Arts.

Lewis-Smith has appeared in a number of his productions for British television:

His most notorious work as a producer was to book Arthur Mullard to stand in for Libby Purves, the regular presenter of BBC Radio 4's Midweek programme. He also impersonated Professor Stephen Hawking during lengthy recorded phone calls with the late Diana, Princess of Wales, some of which is now available on the Internet.

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