DIONNE, LINDA & KAREN: 3 AMERICAN ORIGINALS ON THE BBC

Feature length documentaries on three highly individual contemporaries make for fascinating viewing.

A desert island disc? Indeed.

Anyone who follows Yakety Yak with some degree of regularity will recall how my week in Madeira saw me return to London blasted with a raging head cold. Being incapable of enjoying the many social opportunities on offer, I curled up on the sofa and started scrolling through the BBC’s iPlayer listings.