The day featured debate and discussion on radio, television and online, in which the participants were asked to give their opinion on the position of women in the 21st century. Smurthwaite was a credited writer on the second series of "The Revolution Will Be Televised", which was first broadcast on BBC Three on 10 November 2013. Smurthwaite appeared as a panellist on "Question Time" on 30 January 2014, which was broadcast from St. Andrew's Hall in Norwich. The other panellists on the show were Ken Clarke, Emily Thornberry, Lord Oakeshott, and Mark Littlewood. On 26 October 2014, she was included again in the BBC's 100 women. Since 2005, Smurthwaite has performed comedy shows annually at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe  In 2013, Smurthwaite was awarded a ThreeWeeks Editors' Award for her News at Kate shows, citing them as a "Fringe Institution". In 2014, her science show "The Evolution Will be Televised" was nominated for a Creative Carbon Scotland Fringe Sustainable Practice Award. Other Edinburgh Fringe shows Smurthwaite has appeared in include "Spank!", which she has hosted as well as being a guest performer, "Political Animal", "Nicholas Parsons' Happy Hour", and "SetList". Smurthwaite is the vice-chair and media spokesperson for British NGO Abortion Rights UK, and a member of London Feminist Network and the National Secular Society. She is also on the board of the Edinburgh Fringe Society. She is also patron of Humanists UK, formerly known as the British Humanist Association. In October 2009, Smurthwaite took a place on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth as part of Antony Gormley's One & Other project, impersonating with permission the Irish pro-choice campaigner Goretti Horgan who was unable to attend. She used the platform to highlight the disparity between abortion access in England, Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland. In July 2010, Smurthwaite protested at the lavish funeral of writer Sebastian Horsley with a sign reading "Where are the horse-drawn carriages for the VICTIMS of prostitution?", attracting both praise and criticism. Smurthwaite has spoken at numerous rallies including the Rally for Free Expression, the rally against Tory MP Nadine Dorries abstinence only sex education bill and the abortion rights rally in London following the death of Savita Halappanavar.