Overview
- Ruth And Steve: From Porthcawl With Love is scheduled to air on BBC One Wales at 9pm on December 15.
- The programme follows Jones guiding actor Steve Speirs around Porthcawl on the South Wales coast, including Coney Beach, about 20 miles from Barry Island.
- At a Porthcawl screening, Speirs said acting opposite Nessa felt like performing with a different person, praising Jones’s transformation.
- Jones shares home movies shot by her late father Richard, describing the footage as moving and offering glimpses of the town in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Speirs meets Jones’s mother, siblings and lifelong friends, with Jones joking that some revealing anecdotes had to be edited out.