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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
Tommies
Forty two episodes with me as showrunner.
"How lucky we are that Jonathan Ruffle's superb TOMMIES has become a regular Radio 4 fixture." - The Spectator
"Jonathan Ruffle's epic series based on eye-witness accounts continues to uncover less familiar aspects of war." - The Observer
"If this was a lesser drama, there would be a lot of chat about mud, death and the futility of war."
- The Times
"Every episode was heard by a million people. That's more than would fill all three theatres at the National for a year" - Jeremy Howe, Commissioning Editor BBC Radio 4
Peter Jackson'sThey Shall Not Grow Old
I provided some of my 2014 recordings of the detonation of real WW1 unexploded shells from the French battlefields to WingNut Films for their Oscar -nominated documentary.
"The sound effects — gunfire, shelling, falling debris — are the movie’s best addition, helping to conjure the sensation of continuous bombardment, day and night." - The New York Times
"...a rich tapestry of background sound effects transports the viewer from training camps to battlefields..." - Mark Kermode, The Guardian
Stanley's War
I
wrote the screenplay for this vivid feature documentary about Stanley Banyard of the 7th Battalion the Suffolk Regiment and his life in WW1. And I appeared as a historical expert quite a bit in it too.
"Stanley's War is a riveting and heartfelt story of two Suffolk families from two very different backgrounds and their harrowing experiences of World War One....not to be missed!" - Neil McGlone of Sight & Sound Magazine
Her War
Her War
- the first libretto I've ever written, had its world premiere at the Tete a Tete Opera Festival in September 2020. You can see it, and the Q&A, free and for nothing, here.
The War Just Outside Ipswich
Another script for Video East and Tim Curtis, we got a premiere away at the Riverside Cinema in November 2020 in Woodbridge, and then we were locked down again.
