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Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC [Hardback]

  • Formāts: Hardback, 320 pages, height x width: 234x156 mm
  • Izdošanas datums: 07-Sep-2023
  • Izdevniecība: September Publishing
  • ISBN-10: 1914613430
  • ISBN-13: 9781914613432
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 320 pages, height x width: 234x156 mm
  • Izdošanas datums: 07-Sep-2023
  • Izdevniecība: September Publishing
  • ISBN-10: 1914613430
  • ISBN-13: 9781914613432
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Keywords:
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 tender 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 evocation of the progressive, centrifugal force at the centre of all their lives – the BBC itself. Both compelling and moving, 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 Forsythe 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 .

Recenzijas

'Ruskin Park is so much more than a memoir. It is a tribute to an individual woman and a whole generation and class' Justin Webb, Sunday Times 'Ruskin Park is Rory Cellan-Jones's touching tribute to both his parents, but particularly to the mother he came to know more fully from the letters she left behind' Daily Mail 'Almost unbearably moving, but never sentimental. A fascinating, intensely personal story, courageously told with unflinching honesty' Adrian Chiles 'I loved this highly evocative, unpretentious memoir. Its a small-scale BBC drama in itself... an office love affair... a baby conceived during a stolen weekend... and a childhood of fish fingers prepared by a tired working mother in a south London council flat, it paints a Larkin-esque picture of the arc of one 20th-century woman's life, from passionate, ambitious and hopeful to lonely, depressed, nostalgic and "always a pain at Christmas"' The Times 'Riveting, poignant' TLS

Papildus informācija

A compelling, emotive journey of discovery about BBC broadcaster Rory Cellan-Jones' fatherless upbringing
Rory Cellan-Jones was the BBCs principal technology correspondent until 2021. He now writes an influential Substack column Always On, and through this and his Twitter account @ruskin147 he spreads awareness of technological developments in the fields of medicine and health care. Together with Jeremy Paxman and others he hosts Movers and Shakers, about Parkinson's, which won the 2024 Broadcasting Press Guilds Podcast of the Year award. His other books are Dot.Bomb: The Rise and Fall of Dot.com Britain, Always On: Hope and Fear in the Smartphone Era and Sophie From Romania: A Year of Love and Hope with a Rescue Dog.