Torchwood's Eve Myles is taking a well-deserved break from bagging Weevils to chat to you this weekend.
The Gwen Cooper actress is getting her own series on BBC Radio Wales to chat about current events and share some of her favourite music. The series begins this Sunday (March 11), from 9.30am.
In her first episode, Eve will be joined by Welsh musician Ela Hughes and share some handy Mothering Sunday recipes from Simply Italian presenter Michela Chiappa.
This is the latest in a series of career developments for the actress. She's currently starring in the BBC series Keeping Faith, a job that she says swayed her against giving up acting.
"I'd just been on Broadchurch, actually, and that was great, but at that point, I was quite disillusioned actually with the business and my job," she remembered. "I kept turning down work because I found it disinteresting. I had nothing in me, to be honest. I was a bit passionless.
"I was trying to sign up to train as a midwife! I haven't told anyone that. My husband knows!
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"So yeah, I was considering a big change, because... I don't know. I was finding it all a little same-y. I thought, 'Maybe I was very unhappy with work. Maybe I need a change.'
"So I considered [quitting]. I'm the type of character who likes to be challenged, and I wasn't being challenged. Then this came through, and I thought, 'What bigger challenge would I have?'
"Even if this job was just in English, it would have been a huge challenge to play Faith Howells. Already, it was huge – and it was in two languages.
"I thought to myself, 'In five years' time, if I look back at this, and somebody else played this part and I didn't give it a go, I'm going to be desperately unhappy with myself. I don't know if I can live with that. Because I know this is a good piece.'
"So I took the challenge. It was live, breathe and die – every single day on the show. But it was the kick I needed, and it was the challenge I needed. And I've never loved my job so much."
Eve is also on board to reunite with Torchwood chums John Barrowman, Gareth David-Lloyd, Burn Gorman and Naoko Mori for another range of audio dramas for Big Finish, out next month.
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