Rory Cellan-Jones
Rory Cellan-Jones
Memoir
Rory Cellan-Jones was the BBC’s 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, health care and – more specifically – Parkinson’s, as well as sharing the progress of #SophiefromRomania. Together with Jeremy Paxman and several others he hosts Movers and Shakers, a podcast about Parkinson’s, which won the 2024 Broadcasting Press Guild’s 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, out in autumn 2024, Sophie From Romania: A Year of Love and Hope with a Rescue Dog.
JUSTIN WEBB, THE SUNDAY TIMES
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‘I loved this highly evocative, unpretentious memoir. It’s a small-scale BBC drama in itself.’
The Times
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‘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.’
BOOK OF THE WEEK, DAILY MAIL
‘Almost unbearably moving, but never sentimental. A fascinating, intensely personal story, courageously told with unflinching honesty.’
Adrian Chiles
‘The result is this enthralling memoir of his captivating, indomitable mother; his talented and ambitious father; and of the golden era of BBC drama and the glamorous milieu that was 1950s television.’
Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller
‘Riveting, poignant.’
