[4] He trained as an actor at the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama (1964–67), and spent a year in Paris, France before pursuing an acting career in the UK.
During 1968 he toured England and Northern Ireland with the Arion Theatre Company, and later that year joined the Drama Centre Studio, Bournemouth.
From 1969 to 1970 he was a member of the cast of Barry England's play, Conduct Unbecoming, which starred Maxine Audley, Paul Jones and Jeremy Clyde, directed by Val May, at the Queen's Theatre, London, prior to taking up his first staff position at the BBC.
In April 1970, while appearing in the West End play, Conduct Unbecoming, he was invited to sit in on a live late night BBC Radio 2 programme, where he witnessed the unfolding drama of the Apollo 13 incident.
After a four-year interval teaching drama and poetry studies at The Arts Educational School he returned to radio, this time working in the independent sector as part of the founding team of 2CR, (subsequently Heart Dorset & New Forest)[6] Bournemouth.
Between 2000 and 2011, he was Director of the Centre for Broadcasting History Research,[8] leading a number of significant initiatives to digitise UK radio, with particular emphasis on the commercial sector.
[1] For the actor Christopher Robbie he wrote his one-man play on the life of Charles Darwin, Beyond Paradise – The Wildlife of a Gentle Man, which began touring in 1998 and continues to do so.
In February 2014, the Belfast independent poetry press, Lapwing published his sequence of 25 poems, Jazz Time; a work that explores the improvisatory nature of life, being human, and the redemptive power of music.
In the same year, Seren published a revised edition of his much-praised book, The Dymock Poets: Poetry, Place and Memory, which first appeared in 1993.
In May 2017, a performance work, Estuary, based on his poems of rivers, harbours and tides, was premiered at The Capstone Theatre, Liverpool, as part of the Writing on the Wall Festival, featuring the dancer, Rachel Sweeney, the video artist Peter Dover, the vocalist Perri Alleyne-Hughes and the musician Neil Campbell, featuring Campbell's original musical interpretations of the poems.
In 2020, Street returned to Routledge as his main prose publisher, and their New York office commissioned his latest book, "The Sound of a Room: Memory and the Auditory Presence of Place".
Featured artists include the painters George Dannatt, Frank Finn, Michael Gough, Tony Paul, Bernard Miles Pearson and Jemma Street, as well as the sculptor, Elisabeth Frink, and the wood carver John Fuller.