{"product_id":"ruskin-park-sylvia-me-and-the-bbc-9781914613616","title":"Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCan 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eRory 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 ...' \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBoth 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Forsyte Saga \u003c\/em\u003eand 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 ... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePraise for Rory Cellan-Jones's books: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Delightfully insightful and intensely readable.' - Stephen Fry\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'[A] superlative journalist.' - Miranda Sawyer, \u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRory Cellan-Jones\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eMovers and Shakers\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"September Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50877874536722,"sku":"9781914613616","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_72d44da8-87cb-48da-851c-6b32cb36817f.jpg?v=1738820502","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ruskin-park-sylvia-me-and-the-bbc-9781914613616","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}