Urban Myths Season 4 Episodes

Episode 1

Les Dawson's Parisienne Adventure

The much-loved stand-up comedian Les Dawson flees to live in Paris in order to pursue his dream of becoming a serious novelist. Unfortunately things don't quite work out as planned and he ends up becoming a pianist in a brothel.

Episode 2

When Joan Kissed Barbra

24 mins

Based on Joan Rivers' recollections of a play she starred in with Barbra Streisand. Streisand has remained tight-lipped about the whole experience. A sixteen year old Barbra Streisand (Barden), is in rehearsals for 'Driftwood', an off Broadway play, when a woman, dressed head to toe in fur, bursts through the door. She's Joan Molinsky, although the world will soon come to know her as Joan Rivers (Ryan). Joan is failing as a club comic and wants to turn her hand to more serious artistic pursuits. Unfortunately, the only part available is 'Man in Black', which Joan blithely demands is gender-swapped to 'Woman in Black'. Joan hasn't bothered to read the play and therefore doesn't realise that the 'Woman in Black' and Barbra's character, Lorna, have a love scene together.

Episode 3

Hendrix & Handel

30 mins

In January 1969, Jimi Hendrix and his girlfriend Kathy Etchingham (Harriet Cains) moved into their first real home in Brook Street in London. This was the same building that Handel first called home 246 years earlier in 1743 from where he wrote and sold tickets for The Messiah. This is our version of the events leading up to a transformative moment when Jimi saw Handel's ghost which he later reported to Kathy.

Episode 4

F for Fakenham

Desperate for money, Orson Welles agrees to front a British anthology series, but after a shaky start he is taken hostage.