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Richard Smyth

England, Northern Ireland

Writer and Editor at Freelance

23 | 📺 Graphics Operator @aelive_ | 🏁 Editor @TheApexMSport

Articles

  • Jan 22, 2025 | theguardian.com | Richard Smyth

    Winter is letting go its grip – for now, anyway. The hard freeze of early January relented somewhat this week; here in the wetlands of the Dearne Valley, the ice sheets drew back a little, if only a little, and a streak of dark clear water opened up by the far shore. A crowd scene developed: wigeons, tufted ducks, shelducks, a chorus of cormorant families on the bank, and, beyond them, on the grass, the heavy black bodies of coots, grazing in a herd like miniature water buffalo.

  • Sep 25, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Miranda France |Richard Smyth |Noreen Masud |Norma Clarke

    Diogenes the Cynic (c.412-323 BC) provides not only the title but the guiding spirit for this book about people who use their bodies as sites of resistance or protest. The Greek philosopher also known as “Diogenes the Dog” slept, masturbated and defecated in the public square as a way to protest against political corruption. “Other dogs bite their enemies”, he said.

  • Sep 22, 2024 | theguardian.com | Richard Smyth

    On the sunlit chalk downlands of southern England, a flitting bright-blue butterfly poses an identification puzzle. Could it be an adonis blue? A chalkhill blue? A common blue? I am not on the sunlit chalk downlands of southern England. I am among brambles, in a sloping reach of untended land that separates the train station from the waters of Bradford Beck, at one time the most polluted river in England.

  • Aug 23, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Richard Smyth |birdsBy Richard Smyth

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  • Aug 14, 2024 | newscientist.com | Richard Smyth

    The common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) actually has fewer teeth than most batsMichael & Patricia Fogden/Minden Pictures/AlamyBiteBill Schutt (Algonquin Books)Our evolutionary history bears the bite marks of our teeth. And not just on our outcrop of the mammalian divergence, but across a vast range of animals, extinct and extant, backboned and not, evolutionary development has been shaped, gnawed, chewed and chomped by teeth. Dentition is destiny.

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Richard Smyth
Richard Smyth @RichardSmyth26
2 Apr 25

It was a double Gallagher Premier League weekend for myself working for @aelive_. 🏉 Sale v Northampton & Exeter v Newcastle 🏆 Round 13, Gallagher Premiership 🏟 EMG, High Wycombe 📺 TNT Sports https://t.co/6eDCFq1IpL

Richard Smyth
Richard Smyth @RichardSmyth26
18 Mar 25

Another busy weekend at Premier League Productions for me and the AE Live team. Goalrush and the evening kick-off on Saturday, followed by MDL Extra, with the late match on Sunday and the Weekend Wrap the shows I was working on. https://t.co/mAWGBYIiPw

Richard Smyth
Richard Smyth @RichardSmyth26
11 Mar 25

Twickenham played host to England v Italy on Sunday afternoon, in the hosts final home match of the tournament. I was working for @ITVSport and AE Live, providing augmented reality (AR) graphics for their coverage. https://t.co/CSeVPDch7w