David Smith

Supporting Content

• 'The people are salt of the earth'

  Matson resident Mike Norman says a strength of Matson is how everyone "pulls together".

  Duration: 4:17

• Tewkesbury's Famous Suitcase Chihuahuas

  We catch up with Andrew and his four Chihuahuas after they went viral last year

  Duration: 2:38

• Cheltenham's head groundsman Ben Hastie, trainer Kim Bailey & clerk of the course Simon Claisse join David Smith for Racenight

  The studio panel look ahead to the New Year's Day meeting at Cheltenham Racecourse.

  Duration: 26:40

• Jon Smith Live at the Wychwood Festival

• David Smith

  David began his radio life as a behind the scenes man at BBC Radio Shropshire.
  A five year spell doing the early breakfast show and travel news at BBC Radio Leeds soon followed where he chased UFOs and ghosts on Ilkley Moor in a live all night broadcast.
  In November 2007, he joined BBC Radio Gloucestershire, in a move he describes as 'the best I've ever made' - they clearly didn't know what they were getting! 
  David is a proud resident of Brockworth and has a great passion for the countryside.
  In September 2008, He put his nautical skills to the test when he took a narrowboat down the Severn and Gloucester and Sharpness Canal - broadcasting along the way and only crashing the boat once! 
  
  Off the radio, David is a passionate, some might say obsessive, fan of Shrewsbury Town. 
  He continues to act under the delusion that they will one day be a success. 
  He is also gadget mad and can often be found pressing buttons on computers in an attempt to 'improve' things, and cowering in the engineer's office like a naughty schoolboy when it all goes wrong.