Steve Wright in the Afternoon: How we changed British radio forever. Probably.

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by Jonathan Ruffle

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A warm-hearted and witty memoir from one of DJ Steve Wright's producers in his Radio 1 heyday, Jonathan Ruffle. In the 80's and 90's Steve and Jonathan cooked up an amazingly energised mix of characters, star interviews and sketches. This book relives the cheeky laughter and the warmth of the show that lifted the nation's spirits every weekday from three til five-thirty. Simon Bates says that Jonathan Ruffle...created the Afternoon show on Radio 1 in partnership with Steve; it ran with various tweaks for nearly forty years on BBC Radio. There isn’t a more accurate, better informed, more clinical, more hilarious history of an extraordinary man than this. Simon Mayo says that there is no one better placed to explain how this radio magic happened. and Phil Cornwell, voice of David Bowie and Mick Jagger says that 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 . This is the book of how it actually was, the book that only Jonathan could've written. It's all here, with never-before-seen pictures and memories of Britains's best-loved radio DJ - Steve Wright

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