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Welcome to Wherever You Are

Comedy: Standup

Stand-up comedy that connects a studio audience in London with comedians around the world.

Andrew Maxwell hosts some of the best stand-ups in the world, using modern technology to connect them with a studio audience in London, no matter where they happen to be.

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Comedy from Auckland, Bahrain and New York, hosted by Andrew Maxwell in London.

Andrew Maxwell and guests talk flip-flops, marriage and public flogging. With Urzila Carlson and Rehman Akhtar. From 2017.

Andrew Maxwell hosts a truly global stand-up show, in which comedians perform from wherever on the planet they happen to be, to an audience in the BBC Radio Theatre, London.

With:

Urzila Carlson
Rehman Akhtar
Aparna Nancherla.

From New Zealand, South Africa-born Urzila Carlson discusses flip-flops and marriage.

From Bahrain, one of Saudi Arabia's first comedians, Rehman Akhtar talks about public flogging

Plus New York's Aparna Nancherla, who filmed a half-hour special for Netflix. 

Photo credit: Matt Stronge

Producer: Ed Morrish

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2017.

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