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Podcast: Take 5
Episode: Ruby Wax's survivor songs
Description: Ruby Wax is an icon of comedy and interviewing.Through the 90’s and early 00’s Ruby’s BBC TV specials saw her chatting with the most famous people of the times: Madonna, Jim Carrey, Imelda Marcos, Donald Trump, OJ Simpson, and Pamela Anderson.Her disarming docu-interviewing style preceded people like Louis Theroux, and when she wasn’t getting up in people’s grill, she was script editing Absolutely Fabulous.These days Ruby is an author and mental health advocate, but she still does it all with that acerbic wit. And it was on show in thi...