In addition to stand-up comedy, Smith has performed musical comedy shows such as "Arthur Smith Sings Leonard Cohen" (later broadcast on Radio 4). He returned to this theme for the Edinburgh Fringe in 2013 with "Arthur Smith Sings Leonard Cohen (Volume Too). He is also a radio presenter on such BBC Radio 4 programmes as "Excess Baggage" and "Loose Ends", and appears on television comedy panel games. He took over as narrator of the TV series "A Life of Grime" after the death of John Peel and was one of the "Grumpy Old Men" in the television series of that name. Both of the latter two series used "What a Wonderful World" as their theme song. For "Grumpy Old Men", Smith was one of the cast members who contributed to a montage rendition of the song.