Creator, writer and co-producer of TOMMIES for the BBC
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My #SteveWright book is probably only going to be number one in Radio Entertainment books on Amazon for about three seconds so I’m posting this pronto!
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Thanks for the invite and the interview, Michelle and hats off to @community_media , great organisation
Incredibly grateful to the legend that is @JonathanRuffle for coming along to the @community_media Summer Gathering yesterday. Such kind words and thanks for letting me chat to you on stage. It was an absolute honour.
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For Saturday I've been listening to all sorts of stations throughout the UK via the communitymedia.uk webpage, and I'm enjoying their output just as much as that from their hugely resourced bigger rivals.
Hurrah for them!
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Ta muchly
Jun 4
He was, always rushed home from school to listen to his shows….loved everything he done….he was a one off. And you Johnathan thanks for a brilliant book I’ve read it twice…Regards.X
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I'll be bringing some copies of the book along - I don't have a functioning card-reading doohickey at the minute so will be doing a discount for cash
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Very sorry to hear this. Lovely bloke.
May 26
Very sad indeed to hear the news of Stephen Bungay’s passing. His work on the Battle of Britain was remarkable.
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Picking this up from a real bookshop tomorrow and looking forward to a great BH weekend reading it
May 22
I'm in Weimar where there are traces of the people I wrote about everywhere. This was Hedwig Hetemann's shop where she repaired toys for children. It was destroyed by the SA in the pogrom of 1938 because she was Jewish. Nobody helped her. She became withdrawn and isolated. 1/2
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Hi @vgeller looking forward to meeting you too, loving your talk about Never Being Boring (amongst all the other great stuff) on your highly informative website as I write #radio #communityradio gellermedia.com/
May 20
Talented @JonathanRuffle can't wait to meet you & get to work with you next month! #radio #communityMedia
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Yep, as I say in the book, Johnny was inevitably the irritable headmaster to some of our more stupid pranks, but behind the scenes he was defending Radio 1 from all sorts of attacks from inside and outside the BBC. If you like 80s and 90s music, you owe it to him.
Apr 13
@JonathanRuffle Also listening to that nice old man Beerling play big band on Serenade Radio, I can’t believe he’s the same bloke!
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Thanks, I was very keen the book showed how hard he worked
Apr 13
@JonathanRuffle Hi, just finished your Steve Wright book. Excellent. I was a big Radio 1 fan in the 80s. I never realised before why SWITA sounded so much better than every other show, so much prep went into it. The Warren There was just so much work involved.
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Personally I would have had that down as priceless
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Cliff you have no idea how grateful I am that someone is listening to the audiobook. I was amazed at how often I fluffed and how many odd noises my body was determined to make. And no, the irony that a lot of the book was about editing stuff to make it shine wasn't lost on me
Apr 7
I am cheating and listening to it on audio book.
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Thanks Richard
a great read indeed
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Thanks so much Duncan, I really appreciate that.
I’ve finally finished reading @JonathanRuffle ‘s excellent book about Steve Wright during the late 80s/early 90s. It made me laugh, gave me more reasons to love Steve and feel sad that’s he not doing a bank holiday special today. …hello?
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It's finally out there, the audiobook. Many thanks for production advice from maestros Peter Dickson and Jon Briggs. Available on Amazon, Audible and iTunes
@peterdickson @voiceofsiri @GravyForBrain
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For me the SWITA track is Breakout by Swing Out Sister, suddenly I’m back on the roadshow stage with Steve
Mar 20
@JonathanRuffle 1999 playing on the radio. Takes me back to early eighties Steve Wright!
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Thanks so much for saying that
Mar 19
Loved reading this book from start to finish full credit to the author. Miss you Wrighty.X
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That really is most excellent. Thanks so much
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Thanks Adrian, looks good!
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