Tracks of My Years

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Tracks Of My Years

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Vernon Kay talks to a special guest about their life and and their favourite records.

Vernon Kay talks to a special guest about their life and career and their favourite records.

Tracks Of My Years: Ruth Jones picks her Tracks of My Years

Ruth Jones picks her Tracks of My Years

BBC Radio 2 - Tracks Of My Years, Ruth Jones picks her Tracks of My Years

Ken chats with actor, screenwriter and author Ruth Jones about her Tracks of My Years.

Famously known as the co-creator of 'Gavin & Stacey' alongside James Corden, actor, screenwriter and author Ruth Jones picks her Tracks of My Years in this week's omnibus edition.

Actor, screenwriter and author Ruth Jones picks her Tracks Of My Years in this omnibus edition.

Ruth is famously the co-creator - alongside James Corden - of the hit BBC TV comedy 'Gavin & Stacey', where she played the one and only Nessa Jenkins. The show gained critical acclaim for their reunion Christmas special in 2020, and won a BAFTA for TV moment of the year, a National Television Award for Impact, and gained an RTS nomination for Ruth's performance.

Ruth also created and co-wrote Sky One's 'Stella', which ran for six series. In 2012, she received a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for Stella. She received an MBE in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to entertainment.

Other industry awards include the Best Female Comedy Newcomer at the 2007 British Comedy Awards, the Ultimate Funny Woman Award at the Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women of the Year in 2009, and the BAFTA Cymru Sian Phillips Special Recognition Award.

Her debut novel 'Never Greener' was WH Smith Fiction Book of the Year 2018 and a Sunday Times bestseller for fifteen weeks. Her second novel, 'Us Three', was an instant bestseller, and Ruth’s third novel, 'Love Untold', about the complex bond between mothers and daughters, is out now.

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