Len Martin
Leonard Martin (17 April 1919 – 21 August 1995) was an Australian results reader. He was known in the UK for reading out the football results, associated football pools statistics and horse-racing results on the BBC's Saturday afternoon sports programme, ''Grandstand''.Martin was born in Australia where he began his broadcasting career. He came to England on holiday in 1953 for the Coronation and received a call from the BBC the day before he was due to sail for Australia. He never used his return ticket home, and only twice went back to Australia in 1983 and 1993, on holiday. He performed his role on ''Grandstand'' from the programme's very first edition in 1958 until his death in 1995. Martin was well known for his intonation when reading the scores. It was clear from the way in which he presented the home or away team name, followed by number of goals, whether the result was a home win, an away win, a no-score draw or a score draw; this was important for the football pools results. He was succeeded by Tim Gudgin who also used the distinct BBC intonation.
In addition to his role on ''Grandstand'', Martin was a voice-over artist heard on Movietone newsreels. He also used to run four flights of stairs at Lime Grove Studios in the late 1960s after ''Grandstand'' to introduce Simon Dee's programme, with 'Simon' elongated, in the distinctive manner. Provided by Wikipedia
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Frank Walus, a frame-up victim of the Nazi hunters / by Martin, Len
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Godfathers of North Dakota / by Martin, Len
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Feds lose big : the Weaver trial / by Martin, Len
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The attack on Gordon Kahl at Medina : "the story behind the story!" / by Martin, Len
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Why "they" wanted to get Gordon Kahl / by Martin, Len
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The truth about Gordon Kahl, radical tax protester and militant Posse Comitatus member / by Martin, Len
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Moscow on the prairie : justice-Griggs county style / by Martin, Len
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Black vs. white equals slavery : the color bomb / by Martin, Len
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Terror on Ruby Ridge : the Randy Weaver story : will you be next? / by Martin, Len
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The Columbia checklist : the feature films, serials, cartoons, and short subjects of Columbia Pictures Corporation, 1922-1988 / by Martin, Len D., 1939-
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The Allied Artists checklist : the feature films and short subjects of Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, 1947-1978 / by Martin, Len D., 1939-
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Holy Land betrayed / by Schieber, Haviv, Martin, Len
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The Republic Pictures checklist : features, serials, cartoons, short subjects, and training films of Republic Pictures Corporation, 1935-1959 / by Martin, Len D., 1939-
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My farewell to Israel : the thorn in the Mideast / by Bernstein, Jack
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