[armadillo]

Ruthie Henshall is the castaway on Desert Island Discs on R4 at 11.15 today. It's not available on Listen Again, so if you miss it, you'll have to wait until Friday morning.

[allthatjazz]

Well she seems to be baring all both on and off stage these days! Very juicy revelations...she's going to be in the headlines in the next few days.

That's very sensitively put I must say!

I missed the interview today but am a huge fan so have a good idea of what the 'revelations' were and I wouldn't describe them as 'juicy'. I believe that she is bearing up well considering everything and wish her well and my thoughts are with her. She is the best that we have and I believe we should look after her.

[abalafae]

Well she seems to be baring all both on and off stage these days! Very juicy revelations...she's going to be in the headlines in the next few days.

What an insensitive comment! I am so proud of Ruthie foor how open she is being, I wh I could have been about some of the things that have happened to me. She is a wonderfu, talented and amazing women and deserves a lot more respect! I understand that she choses to talk about everything openly but I don't feel that it's right to discuss it on a public forum. It's her life and her business, if one of your friends started discussing their issues with you would you then go and post it on the internet?
Rant over

[DuddersMonster]

oh pls! la henshall chose to broadcast tittle tattle - if she didnt want it discussed she should have kept her mouth shut

Wow, people really are getting very worked up about this ar'nt they. I'm sure she was not looking for sympathy and as a public figure I'm sure Ruthie is more than aware that the tabloids and the internet will latch on to anything she says which can be construed as mildly scandelous so discussing it is fair game in my opinion.
I think that comments like "tittle tattle" and "kept her mouth shut" are very aggressive and quite unnessesary. I'm pretty sure that talking about 5 year on/off relationship is not tittle tattle, if she had once had a drunken snog'n'grope with a royal then that would be different.

Bottom line, chill out and play nice.

[Annasette]

You might not have liked the phraseology, duddersmonster, but the previous comment was quite correct. Ruthie Henshall hasn't been taken advantage of here. It was her choice to talk! SHE put it in the public domain. You can't blame anyone for taking about it, or the media for picking up on it. It is not "not nice" to recognise that.

But I haven't actually heard the show mself. Did try to do the "listen again" thing, but it wasn't available. ls that just me, and/or a glitch, or has it been stopped? And if it has been stopped, I wonder if the repeat will still be aired?

[Marius Pontmercy]

As someone who knew next-to-nothing about her off-stage life, I found the programme fascinating. How much of that stuff about her problems with depression, and her sister's death, were known publicly before? It was all new to me. I do think it's very good that she can be open about this sort of thing.

But I haven't actually heard the show mself. Did try to do the "listen again" thing, but it wasn't available. ls that just me, and/or a glitch, or has it been stopped? And if it has been stopped, I wonder if the repeat will still be aired?

Desert Island Discs is never available on the "listen again" thing. Something to do with rights issues with the music, maybe? I've no idea why, but it never is. The repeat should be on as usual.