The Guardian81%
‘I thought there’d never be enough work!’ Ruth Madeley on sex, success and becoming a star out of sheer nosiness 62%
By Zoe Williams81%
7/17/2026, 12:00:07 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Hindsight Bias, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 51.4% saturation with 144 hits. Analysis detected 510 faulty-reasoning hits from 280 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 57.1% and a BS Rank of 62% (8,459 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 61.40% of the article peer group.
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The day I met Ruth Madeley in a hotel in central London was the peak of the last heatwave, the buttons on traffic lights almost too hot to touch.
Eerily, this is a major theme of The Rapture, the BBC’s new adaptation of Liz Jensen’s 2009 bestseller .
It’s set in a children’s secure psychiatric unit, and the 38-year-old actor plays Gabs, a clinical psychologist recently paralysed in a car accident that killed her husband.
She becomes transfixed by the inmate Bethany – a surly, biting performance from India Amarteifio – who has been convicted of killing her own mother.
Gabs is hard-boiled, as far from gullible as you could imagine, and Bethany’s “visions”, which pour out of her in frenetic drawings of faces, disasters, landscapes, don’t fall on fertile ground.
Yet Gabs cannot help but notice when they start to come true.
In the background, the heat is stultifying and climate crisis activists are begging the world to take notice.
“Yes, it’s feeling very timely,” she says wryly.
This is on-brand; her first major role was in Russell T Davies’s Years and Years , the apocalyptic smash hit that ends with a monkey flu pandemic (sorry, spoiler), “and then a year later we were in lockdown.
I told Russell: ‘You’re not allowed to write anything else, my nerves can’t take it.’”
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