Katherine Ryan is due to be the latest guest on Desert Island Discs.

Details of the programme have not been revealed. All the BBC press office will says is: "Lauren Laverne's castaway is the comedian Katherine Ryan who reflects on her childhood growing up in Sarnia, Canada.

'She describes her awkward teenage years, how working in a branch of the restaurant chain Hooters taught her how to work a crowd and why she fell back in love with a childhood sweetheart after 20 years apart."

Ryan's choice of songs includes La Isla Bonita by Madonna, The Real Slim Shady by Eminem, and Spice Up Your Life by the Spice Girls.

UKTV has commissioned Katherine Ryan: Parental Guidance (working title), a new documentary series for free-to-air entertainment channel W and catch-up service UKTV Play. The new sseries will see Katherine explore a whole host of extreme parenting techniques, and evaluate whether they might benefit her own family life.

Ryan has three children, a teenager from a previous relationship and two much younger children with Bobby Kootstra, who was her childhood sweetheart. In 2019, while filming an episode of the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are in Canada, she met up with Kootstra. They hadn’t seen each other for 20 years but later that year they married in Denmark.

Ryan recently revealed why she stopped appearing on BBC comedy show Mock The Week. In the High Performance, prodcast Ryan said: "I loved everyone who worked on that show but there came a point in my career where I had to stop appearing on that show because i knew there was just one seat for women at that time. 

I knew that if I was sitting in that chair, i was preventing one of my female peers from having a go. Being on that show was life-changing. You would receive so much more exposure and people would come to see you on tour and it would really draw people in, it was a game changer."

Desert Island Discs was recorded on September 6th.

Desert Island Discs with Katherine Ryan, Sunday, October 1. BBC Radio 4 and then on catch-up.