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 on medical innovation and tech. Through this and his twitter following @ruskin147 he spreads awareness of technological developments in the fi elds 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. He also shares the progress of #SophiefromRomania.
‘Ruskin Park is so much more than a memoir. It is tribute to an individual woman and a whole generation and class.’
JUSTIN WEBB, THE SUNDAY TIMES
‘A captivating family detective story – and a poignant social history of Britain.’
OBSERVER
‘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.’
