The Shift LIVE: Ruth Jones on daughterhood, menopause and being Nanny Ruth

The Shift with Sam Baker

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Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.8 • 525 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In the run up to Christmas I'll be dropping two special live episodes recorded live at the Birmingham Literature Festival earlier this autumn. The second conversation is with one of the funniest, warmest women you’re ever likely to encounter: Ruth Jones. TBH Ruth needs little introduction. The co-writer and star of Stella and the BAFTA award winning Gavin and Stacey, she is also the bestselling author of three Sunday Times bestsellers: Never Greener (which was also WHSmith Fiction book of the year), Us Three and now, Love Untold. Warm, open-hearted and generous, Love Untold sees Ruth turn her attention to motherhood and daughterhood as we meet four generations of the women of the Meredith family: Grace, Alys, Elin and Beca and encounter the minefield of complications that form the mother-daughter bond - love, hate and everything in between. You will laugh, you will cry, you will wince and above all you will recognise the feelings that Ruth evokes in the four women. Ruth joined me in front of a live audience at the Birmingham Rep to talk about the complex mother-daughter relationship, why so few people talk about daughterhood, the power and importance of cross-generational understanding and the impossibility of living up to a fantasy life. She also opened up about menopause, HRT, her irrational fear of turning 40 and her favourite new role.... that of Nanny Ruth! This episode includes an exclusive reading from Love Untold by Ruth. And Ruth's book recommendations for Christmas reading. * You can buy all the books mentioned in this podcast at Bookshop.org, including Love Untold by Ruth Jones and the book that inspired this podcast, The Shift: how I lost and found myself after 40 - and you can too, by me. * And if you'd like to support the work that goes into making this podcast and get a weekly newsletter plus loads more content including transcripts of the podcast, please consider joining The Shift community. Find out more at https://steadyhq.com/en/theshift/ And if you already subscribe - did you know you can buy a Gift Membership of The Shift for a friend at https://steadyhq.com/en/theshift/gift_plans • The Shift (on life after 40) with Sam Baker is created and hosted by Sam Baker and edited by Emily Sandford. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate/review/follow as it really does help other people find us. And let me know what you think on twitter @sambaker or instagram @theothersambaker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus.
0:04.5	We're having a baby.
0:05.5	We're having a baby.
0:07.2	I've always wanted to be mom.
0:09.4	And we're bringing you on our journey through everything.
0:12.4	I have no idea what we're doing.
0:13.6	Thank you. I have more of an idea.
0:15.6	I think of it like a Tamagocchi.
0:17.8	At the end of all of this...
0:20.0	We're going to have a little baby. Raising Chelsea, a Hulu
0:23.7	original series streaming exclusively on Disney Plus. 18 plus subscription required T's and T supply.
0:33.8	Hello. Hello and welcome to The Shift with Sam Baker podcast coming to you live from the Birmingham
0:41.0	Rep as part of Birmingham Literature Festival. For those who don't know me, I'm journalist
0:45.4	and author Sam Baker and I'm delighted to be here with one of the funniest, warmest women you're
0:50.8	ever likely to encounter, Ruth Jones. And she's pretending it's not true,
0:55.0	but it is true. To be honest, we all know Ruth doesn't need any introduction, but we'll give her a little one,
1:01.8	which is the co-writer and star of Stella and the BAFTA award-winning Gavin and Stacey. She is also
1:07.3	the bestselling author of three Sunday Times bestsellers, Never Greener,
1:12.1	us three and now hot off the press, Love Untold. Warm, open-hearted and generous, Love Untold
1:20.0	sees Ruth turn her attention to motherhood and daughterhood as we meet four generations of
1:25.0	women of the Meredith family, Grace, Alice, Ellen and Becca,
1:30.4	and encounter the minefield of complications that form the mother-daughter bond,
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