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World Service,29 Dec 2018,53 mins

The New Year International Comedy Show

The Arts Hour

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A festive feast of worldwide laughter from some of the brightest, newest and best comics around the globe. Malawian comedian Daliso Chaponda (Britain’s Got Talent) hosts the international line up which features the American comic Hari Kondabolu, creator of the documentary The Problem with Apu and star of the Netflix special Warn Your Relatives; Swedish Chinese comedian Evelyn Mok; Australian Heidi Regan, winner of the BBC New Comedy Award 2017; Scottish Stephen Buchanan, winner of the BBC New Comedy Award 2018; British Filipina German comedian Ria Lina; Russian Olga Koch and Indian Anuvab Pal, regular co-presenter on The Bugle podcast. Photo: Montage of the comedians featured in this year's International Comedy Show Credit: BBC

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