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B0CFBDKVMG M4B@64 kbps Author and Narrator: Rory Cellan-Jones Can we ever really know the truth about our parents? 'For Rory, to read and think about - in the hope it will help him to understand how it really was.' Rory Cellan-Jones knew he was the child of a love affair between two BBC employees. But until his mother died and he found a file labelled 'For Rory' he knew little of its beginning or ending. Or why his peculiarly isolated childhood had so tested the bond between him and Sylvia as she single-parented two sons in a one-bedroom flat, while working full time, through the 1950s and 60s. This is a compelling account of what Rory uncovered in the papers, letters and diaries of a relationship between two romantics and the restrictive forces of post-war respectability and prejudice that ended it. It is also an evocation of the centrifugal force at the centre of all their lives - the BBC itself.