Nancy Banks-Smith (born 1929) is a British television and radio critic; she began writing for The Guardian in 1969. In 1970 she was recommended for the Order of the British Empire, which she declined.
She currently writes a monthly column for The Guardian entitled "A month in Ambridge", reviewing recent developments in The Archers.
- 1951- 1955: Northern Daily Telegraph, reporter
- 1955: Sunday Mirror, women's section
- 1955 - 1960: Daily Herald, reporter
- 1960 - 1965: Daily Express, feature writer
- 1965 - 1969: Sun, TV critic
- 1969 - present : Guardian, TV and radio critic
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“Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over—except when they are different.”
—Nancy Banks-Smith, British columnist. Quoted in Guardian (London, July 21, 1988)
“...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)