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World Service,28 Dec 2019,53 mins

The New Year International Comedy Show

The Arts Hour

Available for over a year

The Arts Hour brings you a festive celebration of the best comedy talent from around the world in a special programme recorded in the BBC Radio Theatre. Malawian stand-up Daliso Chaponda hosts the star studded line up which features the BBC’s best comedy new comer, American Janine Harouni; the first woman to have a Netflix European comedy special, German Iranian Enissa Amani; Malaysian Nigel Ng, the host of comedy podcast Rice to Meet You; Australian rising star Brodi Snook; the host of the BBC podcast But where are you really from? Eshaan Akbar and the hilarious British Kenyan stand-up, citizen of the world Masud Milas. Photo shows Daliso Chaponda (c) BBC

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