Martin Bell reads his Epitaph

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We’ve recently published For Whom the Bell Tolls by Martin Bell. He’s a man best know for being a BBC war reporter, and then Britain’s first independent MP for 50 years when he was elected to Parliament in 1997.

His new book though announced a third career for Martin – that of a poet – and For Whom the Bell Tolls includes verse that he wrote when he was 19, doing his National Service, as well a poems on the big news events of 2011, in particular the Arab Spring and the August riots.

Here he is at the Frontline Club in London recently reading the final poem in the book, Epitaph, and you can see more of his book here.