In 1996, BBC journalist Rory Cellan-Jones was clearing out his mother's council flat in Ruskin Park House, South London , following her death. He came across a kind of treasure trove. 'Everywhere,' he writes, 'there were bundles of letters - hundreds, possibly thousands of them.' His mother, Sylvia, had kept nearly every letter she had ever received and made carbon copies of many she had sent. In one rectangular red box, he found something special. A message to him from his mother: 'For Rory, to read and think about in the hope that it will help him to understand how it really was.' Also inside was a collection of love letters from the 1950s, exchanged between Sylvia and the father Rory did not even meet until he was 23. Pictured left, Rory's father Jim, and inset, his mother Sylvia. Right, Sylvia with Rory and his half-brother Stephen. ...read ...read
Scandalous love affair at the BBC: She was a 42-year-old floor manager. He was 25 and her assistant. After finding his mother's love letters, their son Rory Cellan-Jones charts their illicit romance
