Since 2001, Kermode has reviewed and debated new film releases with Mayo on the BBC Radio 5 Live show Kermode and Mayo's Film Review. Between February 1992 and October 1993, he was the resident film reviewer on BBC Radio 5's Morning Edition with Danny Baker. He hosted a movie review show with Mary Anne Hobbs on Radio 1 on Tuesday nights called Cling Film. He later moved to Simon Mayo's BBC Radio 1 morning show. Kermode began working as a film reviewer for BBC Radio 1 in 1993, on a regular Thursday night slot called Cult Film Corner on Mark Radcliffe's Graveyard Shift session. He has written for The Independent, Vox, Empire, Flicks, Fangoria and Neon. Kermode began his film career as a print journalist, writing for Manchester's City Life, and then Time Out and the NME in London. He earned his PhD in English at the University of Manchester in 1991, writing a thesis on horror fiction. His parents divorced when he was in his early 20s and he subsequently changed his surname to his mother's maiden name by deed poll. He was raised as a Methodist, and later became a member of the Church of England. He was educated at The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, a private boys' school in Elstree, Hertfordshire, a few years ahead of comedians Sacha Baron Cohen and David Baddiel and in the same year as actor Jason Isaacs and former Brexit Party Member of the European Parliament, Lance Forman. Kermode was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire.
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