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Jonathan Ruffle is a British writer, director and producer who has made TV and radio programmes for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4.
At one time Steve Wright's [1] and Simon Bates’s [2] radio producer on BBC Radio 1, he left to produce the acclaimed BBC radio drama version of Len Deighton’s Bomber , [3] and the award-winning 1995 Channel 4 documentary Edward VIII: The Traitor King . [4]
He then split his career in two new directions: airshow and event commentary, and TV comedy writing including Never Mind the Buzzcocks . [5]
In 2009 he took his real-time First World War drama idea Tommies [6] to the BBC which completed its four and half year transmission in November 2018 [7] . Jonathan was the showrunner and wrote 16 of the 42 episodes [8] . Some of the explosions he recorded in his production role on this show were used in Sir Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old. [9]
Further WW1 projects followed; a libretto for the opera Her War [10] , and scripts for two documentary dramas, Stanley’s War [11] and The War Just Outside Ipswich. [12]
His memoir – Steve Wright in the Afternoon: How we changed British radio forever. Probably [13] – was a bestseller in 2026 and he currently writes feature film projects and TV scripts for GB Films [14] and US production companies.
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