Editing Victor Lewis-Smith (section)

==Early life and personal life==
Lewis-Smith was born in 1957, the son of a neurosurgeon, and grew up in [[Chadwell Heath]], Essex,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/victor-lewis-smith-obituary-7qmmndhtf|title=Victor Lewis-Smith obituary|work=[[The Times]]|date=13 December 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/dec/15/victor-lewis-smith-obituary|title=Victor Lewis-Smith obituary - Culture - The Guardian|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=15 December 2022}}</ref> although according to ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]'', he "never knowingly gave an interview discussing his parents, background or childhood."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/12/12/victor-lewis-smith-writer-producer-broadcaster-whose-caustic|title=Victor Lewis-Smith, writer, producer and broadcaster whose caustic and scabrous diatribes offended and delighted in equal measure – obituary |work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|date=12 December 2022}}</ref> He was married to Virginia Stewart Duff.

He worked for [[BBC Radio Kent|Radio Medway]] before going on to study music at the [[University of York]], where he presented the "bizarre student TV show" ''Intimate Freshness'' under the name "Damien Filth". During his time as a student he was arrested, convicted and bound over with a potential £20 fine for causing a public disturbance after climbing up scaffolding at [[York Minster]] in the middle of the night and reciting the [[adhan]], the Muslim call to prayer, from the scaffolding surrounding the Chapter House. When asked in the magistrates' court hearing why he had climbed the Minster he replied "Why do men climb mountains?"