Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC by Cellan-Jones, Rory
Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC by Cellan-Jones, Rory

Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

Can we ever really know the truth about our parents? From the popular journalist, podcaster and tweeter...
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Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC by Cellan-Jones, Rory

Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

$27.10
Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC by Cellan-Jones, Rory

Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

$27.10
Author: Rory Cellan-Jones
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Can we ever really know the truth about our parents? From the popular journalist, podcaster and tweeter about his rescue dog #SophiefromRomania comes a moving memoir in search of the truth behind his isolated childhood and absent father.

Rory Cellan-Jones knew he was the child of a brief love affair between two unmarried BBC employees. But until his mother died and he found a previously unknown file labelled 'For Rory' he had no idea of their beginnings or ending, and why his peculiarly isolated childhood had so tested the bond between him and his mother. 'For Rory, ' his mother had written on the file 'in the hope that it will help him understand how it really was ...'

This is a compelling account of what Rory uncovered in the papers, letters and diaries; a relationship between two colleagues (two romantics) and the restrictive forces of post-war respectability and prejudice that ended it. It is also an evocation of the progressive, centrifugal force at the centre of all their lives - the BBC itself.

Both tender and troubling, the drama moves from wartime radio broadcasts, to the glamour of 1950s television studios, to the golden era of BBC drama. His father may have directed The Forsyte Saga and Rory may have watched him from the corridors, but he would never actually meet him until much later in adulthood. Until then Rory's life was bound to the one-bedroom flat he shared with his mother in Ruskin Park ...

Praise for Rory Cellan-Jones's books:

'Delightfully insightful and intensely readable.' - Stephen Fry

'[A] superlative journalist.' - Miranda Sawyer, Observer

Author: Rory Cellan-Jones
Publisher: September Publishing
Published: 09/10/2024
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781914613616

About the Author

Rory Cellan-Jones was the BBC's principal technology correspondent until 2018. He now writes an influential Substack column on medical innovation and tech. Through this and his 320k+ twitter followers @ruskin147 he spreads awareness of technological developments in the fields of medicine, health care and - more specifically - Parkinson's. Together with Jeremy Paxman and several others he has begun a new podcast on Parkinson's called Movers and Shakers.


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