{"product_id":"ruskin-park-sylvia-me-and-the-bbc-hardcover","title":"Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRory Cellan-Jones\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eRuskin Park \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eis so much more than a memoir. It is tribute to\u003cbr\u003ean individual woman and a whole generation and class.' - Justin Webb, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Ruskin Park\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e is Rory Cellan-Jones's touching tribute to\u003cbr\u003eboth his parents, but particularly to the mother he came to know more fully\u003cbr\u003efrom the letters she left behind' -\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A captivating family detective story and a\u003cbr\u003epoignant social history of Britain.' - \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e***\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCan we ever really know the truth about our\u003cbr\u003eparents? From the popular journalist, podcaster and tweeter about his rescue\u003cbr\u003edog #SophiefromRomania comes a moving memoir in search of the truth behind his\u003cbr\u003eisolated childhood and absent father.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRory Cellan-Jones knew he was the child of a brief love affair between two\u003cbr\u003eunmarried BBC employees. But until his mother died and he found a previously\u003cbr\u003eunknown file labelled 'For Rory' he had no idea of their beginnings or ending, \u003cbr\u003eand why his peculiarly isolated childhood had so tested the bond between him\u003cbr\u003eand his mother. 'For Rory, ' his mother had written on the file 'in the hope\u003cbr\u003ethat it will help him understand how it really was ...' \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a compelling account of what Rory uncovered in the papers, letters and\u003cbr\u003ediaries; a relationship between two colleagues (two romantics) and the\u003cbr\u003erestrictive forces of post-war respectability and prejudice that ended it. It\u003cbr\u003eis also an evocation of the progressive, centrifugal force at the centre of all\u003cbr\u003etheir lives - the BBC itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth tender and troubling, the drama moves from wartime radio broadcasts, to\u003cbr\u003ethe glamour of 1950s television studios, to the golden era of BBC drama. His\u003cbr\u003efather may have directed \u003cem\u003eThe Forsyte Saga\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand Rory may have watched him from the corridors, but he would never actually\u003cbr\u003emeet him until much later in adulthood. Until then Rory's life was bound to the\u003cbr\u003eone-bedroom flat he shared with his mother in Ruskin Park ... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'I loved this highly evocative, unpretentious\u003cbr\u003ememoir. It's a small-scale BBC drama in itself.' - \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRory Cellan-Jones was the BBC's principal technology correspondent until 2018. He now writes an influential and fast-growing substack column on medical innovation and tech. 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