Urban Myths: When Joan Kissed Barbra review

Katherine Ryan's acerbic stand-up has been compared to Joan Rivers so often that it was surely a no-brainer to cast her as the younger version of her comedy hero.

Barbra Streisand hasn't done a chat show in the UK since being lightly grilled by Des O'Connor way back in the 1980s. The reason isn't that she has something to hide, it's more that she really doesn't need to. She's such a preposterously massive star that Ross might just drop his tiresome "pretending all the female guests fancy me" routine and actually ask her some decent questions. We can but hope.

The once-disgraced television and radio broadcaster presents a show devoted to an interview with one of the world's best-loved stars, Barbra Streisand. Ross's at times brash interviewing style is not everyone's cup of tea, so it's a wonder that a star of Streisand's status would choose him for an exclusive chat. In her first UK studio interview since the Eighties, the A Star Is Born actress discusses her five-decade-long stage, television and film career and performs some of her classic hits as well as songs from her new album, Love Is the Answer.