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For Whom The Bell Tolls

Martin Bell OBE has been many things - an icon of BBC war reporting Britains first independent MP for 50 years a UNICEF ambassador and the man in the white suit - a tireless campaigner for honesty and accountability in politics. But as his new book reveals hes also a poet of light verse and here Bells poems continue his war by other means on duplicitous politicians our all-consuming media the venality of celebrity culture and much more. Oscillating between trenchant satire and touching honesty often poignant autobiography spiced with gentle humour Bell presents poems on Tony Blair and Iraq on Radovan Karadzic the Serbian war criminal whom he met on trial in the Hague on his hero Reuters reporter Kurt Schork killed on assignment in Sierra Leone and colourful episodes from his work and life
from the chart-topping calypso written about him in St Lucia to his being a guest at Idi Amins wedding: - that by God / Was well worth doing if distinctly odd. Topical timely - the book will include poems on key events in 2011 - and with Martins irrepressible guiding voice For Whom the Bell Tolls will be the perfect fireside companion this Christmas from the man convinced that life begins at three score years and ten.
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Martin Bell OBE has been many things
- an icon of BBC war reporting Britains first independent MP for 50 years a UNICEF ambassador & the man in the white suit
- a tireless campaigner for honesty & accountability in politics. But as his new book reveals hes also a poet of light verse & here Bells poems continue his war by other means on duplicitous politicians our all-consuming media the venality of celebrity culture & much more. Oscillating between trenchant satire & touching honesty often poignant autobiography spiced with gentle humour Bell presents poems on Tony Blair & Iraq on Radovan Karadzic the Serbian war criminal whom he met on trial in the Hague on his hero Reuters reporter Kurt Schork killed on assignment in Sierra Leone & colourful episodes from his work & life from the chart-topping calypso written about him in St Lucia to his being a guest at Idi Amins wedding:
- that by God / Was well worth doing if distinctly odd. Topical timely
- the book will include poems on key events in 2011
- & with Martins irrepressible guiding voice For Whom the Bell Tolls will be the perfect fireside companion this Christmas from the man convinced that life begins at three score years & ten.

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