Hello, I'm Lauren the Verne and this is Desert Island Discs postcards.
What's this?
I hear you're crying?
Well, each year we take a short break,
which is the perfect time for us to head to the island and revisit some of our favourite castaways with you.
But where to start?
Every weekday we'll be delivering a moment from our Desert Island directly to you.
It could be funny, it could be sad or it could even just be silly.
Think of it as your very own Desert Island Discs postcard.
The actor and writer Ruth Johns is our first cast away this week.
She's perhaps best known as Nessa from Gavin and Stacey, the show she co-created with James Corden.
I interviewed Ruth back in 2019 and she told me about her early career struggles and getting her foot on the acting ladder.
I did a tour of the marriage of Figaro and that was great but then there was nothing after that so you know and I had to pay my rent.
So I went to work at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council and was a clerical assistant there for a good long
while and I just thought,
what is happening to me?
I'm not ever going to act again.
So I moved back to Wales and was going to become a solicitor
because I just thought I'm clearly not going to become an actress,
it's just not happening.