Martin Bell

Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast by Avalon

Feb 28, 202447:38Arts

Frank loves a hard-drinking, hard-smoking Polytechnic lecturer like Martin Bell, especially when he is offering poetic praise to Groucho Marx. The poems referenced are ‘Ode to Groucho’ by Martin Bell and ‘The Second Comi...

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