Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Poetic Obituaries: In 1995 he was principal commentator for BBC

Television for the VE and VJ Day celebrations and was well known for his annual commentary on the Cenotaph Service in London. In 1999, Fleming read The Beginning of a New Song, by the poet Iain Crichton Smith at the opening of the Scottish Parliament.

His own published poetry included So That was Spring in 1954 and Sax Roses for a Luve Frae Hame in 1961.

from Times Online: Actor and commentator Tom Fleming dies, aged 82

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