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Jonathan Ruffle
Probably best known for creating, writing and co-producing TOMMIES
for BBC Radio 4, I write and work on feature films and comedy, too
Steve Wright in the Afternoon
How we changed British radio forever. Probably.
The book I had to write.
‘There is no one better placed to explain how this radio magic happened, day after day, year after year.’ -
SIMON MAYO
'This book could only have been written by one man. You see, he was there, in the eye of the hurricane that was Steve Wright in the Afternoon. That man is “Happening Boy” himself, Jonathan Ruffle. I for one am very pleased he’s set all this down: it's a wonderful journey back to another time. This is the book of how it actually was, the book that only Jonathan could’ve written.' -
PHIL CORNWELL, voice of 'David Bowie' and 'Mick Jagger'
'The people who really knew Steve Wright and who Steve Wright trusted could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Jonathan Ruffle was one of those.
He created the Afternoon show on Radio 1 in partnership with Steve; it ran with various tweaks for nearly forty years on BBC Radio.
So, there isn’t a more accurate, better informed, more clinical, more hilarious story of an extraordinary man than this. I've had to duck a couple of times, because Jonathan adds to all this his observations of the strengths and weaknesses of his colleagues at the time - including his own.
This will stand as the only authentic “True Story” of Steve, Jonathan his radio partner, and a long-gone era of British showbiz.' –
SIMON BATES
Available as a paperback and a Kindle.
Tommies

Peter Jackson'sThey Shall Not Grow Old
Stanley's War
Her War
The War Just Outside Ipswich







