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`The much-loved Radio 2 DJ Ken Bruce tells his remarkable and inspiring story in Tracks of My Years a memoir that is as direct and humourous as the man himself. His account of bringing up an autistic son is especially inspiring.'
--Choice magazine
--Choice magazine
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A funny, charming memoir by Radio 2's much loved DJ Ken Bruce.
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Radio Two's other morning DJ institution,
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This review is from: The Tracks of My Years: The autobiography (Hardcover)
Because his show follows that of `living legend' Terry Wogan, Ken Bruce tends to get overlooked. In a way you could say he is a bit like Oliver Hardy to Wogan's Stan Laurel. This is unfair because anybody that regularly listens to Ken Bruces programmes will realise that, like Hardy, he is a consummate performer. He his highly skilled at his art, possessing the happy ability of being able to make the listener believe that he is talking to them alone, chatting to them as if he were sitting in the same room as them.
This autobiography is like that too. This is a warm, good natured book full of amusing anecdotes gathered first from his pre-radio days as a trainee accountant and a hire car company employee and then from his long career as a broadcaster, where he started on hospital radio before graduating to Radio Scotland then moving on to his spiritual home, Radio Two. This being Ken Bruce, we don't expect and don't get any dishing of the dirt about his fellow broadcasters, he his obviously too decent a bloke to go down that road. This and the fact that he hasn't really had a very eventful life may make this book a little dull for some tastes but the millions that enjoy his mid-morning show will doubtless enjoy this book as well.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Ken Bruce - Tracks Of My Years,
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This review is from: The Tracks of My Years: The autobiography (Hardcover)
Great book about a great presenter. I have had the pleasure of being of his legendary Popmaster quiz a couple of times - I even made the final one year! Full of anecdotes and dry humour as a regular Radio 2 listener of his show would come to expect. As radio biographies go, this is a good one. Also interesting about how BBC has ran Radio 2 throughout as most radio biographies tend to focus mainly on Radio 1 - particularly the Bannister fallout of 1993! I have not just ordered the man himself reading the autobiography which will be even better!!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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I love the radio show...but sadly didn't love the book,
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This review is from: The Tracks of My Years: The autobiography (Hardcover)
Ken Bruce is one of my favourite Radio 2 presenters so I was really interested in reading this. Unfortunately, it didn't quite hit the spot for me. The book charts his rise to radio fame from his days in accountancy and working for a hire car firm to jobbing for BBC Scotland and then on to Radio 2. Its not the most exciting of lives to write about, particularly early on, but there are some amusing anecdotes. The most interesting part for me was the behind the scenes politics and sometimes pettyness at the BBC.
If you're interested in radio then you would probably enjoy this a lot more. His family barely get a mention throughout the book and if you hadn't read early on that he was married with a family, you could form the impression that he was a single man. At the end of the book, he mentions his autistic son which I found very moving. On balance, I would have liked to have learnt a bit more about the man and a bit less about radio.
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