Katherine Ryan, comedian
Katherine Ryan, comedian, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury item she would take with her if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne.
Katherine Ryan is a Canadian comedian and writer. Her edgy and provocative routines have led to sell-out tours, comedy specials on television and her sitcom series The Duchess. Based on her experience at the time, the Duchess tells the story of a successful, happily single mother and Katherine wrote it out of frustration because she believed no one else was telling a story like hers on screen.
Katherine was born in Sarnia in Ontario where she attended a local French-speaking primary school. The school celebrated the arts and Katherine became a musical theatre enthusiast who could sing, dance, write and act.
Later she moved to Toronto where she studied city planning and worked for a branch of the restaurant chain Hooters. She credits the latter with teaching her the value of being entertaining and smart.
In 2008 she relocated to London with her boyfriend and a few years later she got her big break as a comedian, performing on the panel show 8 Out of 10 Cats. By now a single mother to daughter Violet, she developed a rapport with audiences by sharing stories from her own life 鈥 both funny and sad. She describes her tendency to connect with her fans in this way as her 鈥渓anguage of love鈥.
In 2019, while filming an episode of the 成人快手 series Who Do You Think You Are in Canada, she met up with her high school boyfriend, Bobby. They hadn鈥檛 seen each other for 20 years but the spark was still there and later that year they married in Denmark and went on to have two children together.
The programme was recorded on September 6th.
DISC ONE: Spice Up Your Life - The Spice Girls
DISC TWO: The Real Slim Shady - Eminem
DISC THREE: La Isla Bonita - Madonna
DISC FOUR: Soul One - Blind Melon
DISC FIVE: 22 - Taylor Swift
DISC SIX: Psychic City (Classixx Remix) - Yacht
DISC SEVEN: Crash Into Me - Dave Matthews Band
DISC EIGHT: 16 Shots - Stefflon Don
BOOK CHOICE: The Highway Rat by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler
LUXURY ITEM: A hat and skincare set
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Spice Up Your Life - The Spice Girls
Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Paula McGinley
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Spice Girls
Spice Up Your Life
- Spiceworld.
- Virgin.
- 1.
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Eminem
The Real Slim Shady
- The Marshall Mathers LP.
- Aftermath.
- 8.
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Madonna
La Isla Bonita
- True Blue.
- Warner Records.
- 7.
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Blind Melon
Soul One
- Best Of Blind Melon.
- Capitol.
- 15.
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Taylor Swift
22
- Red.
- Big Machine Records, LLC.
- 6.
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Yacht, Classixx
Psychic City
- Psychic City.
- DFA Records.
- 2.
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Dave Matthews Band
Crash Into Me
- Lady Bird - Soundtrack from the Motion Picture.
- Legacy Recordings.
- 10.
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Stefflon Don
16 Shots
- 16 Shots.
- Polydor Records.
- 1.
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