- Martin Bell was born on August 31, 1938 in Redisham, Suffolk, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Media Junkies: News Addiction (2003), Veillées d'armes (1994) and How the BBC Began (2022).
- His white suit
- Left the BBC in 1997 after 35 years as a reporter to stand as an Independent "anti-sleaze" MP in Tatton against Neil Hamilton - and he won.
- Awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1992.
- He won the Royal Television Society's Reporter of the Year award in 1977 and 1993.
- Educated at Taverham Hall School in Norwich and The Leys in Cambridge.
- Has a degree in English from King's College, Cambridge.
- "The alternative is to lapse into a cynical defeatism and become a boring old 'the world's going to hell' fart" - on claims that he is too idealistic.
- It was once said of ITN's Sandy Gall and myself that we had faces like the relief maps of the countries we were covering. The country in his case was Afghanistan and in mine was Bosnia - neither of which is blessed with regular features. But film-star good looks were not then in the job description.
- Today's army is fantastic and it's much better than the army that I served in, not least because it doesn't have me serving in it. (Speaking in 2007)
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