BBC World Service brings you a global line-up of comedy for New Year. Daliso Chaponda (Britain's Got Talent) introduces a selection of the world's hottest stand-up comedy talent. Show more

BBC World Service brings you a global array of comedy talent hosted by Maz Jobrani featuring Ali Hassan, Martha Chaves, the El-Salomons and many others. Show more

Poet Lebo Mashile on post-apartheid writers, news from the Zanzibar music festival, Kate Tempest and folk musician Eliza Carthy, Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari and John Madden. Show more

Bjorn on her new album, Aowen Jin on her work Factory Girls, Coco Mbassi on why she follows her heart, author Kazuo Ishiguro on ogres and giants, Sean Penn on his film The Gunman. Show more

Russell Crowe on directing The Water Diviner, Tracey Emin's unmade bed and Indian director Vidhu Vinod Chopra on his debut Hollywood project Broken Horses. Show more

Philip Glass on his life and music and novelist Bapsi Sidhwa on Pakistan and Partition. Show more

Noma Dumezweni on playing Hermione in the theatre production of Harry Potter. Natalie Portman on writing, directing and starring in her new film, and Michael Kiwanuka on jazz. Show more

In an interview recorded at the 2012 Free Thinking festival, Irish writer Colm Toibin talks to Philip Dodd about his own life, his ideas and thoughts on literature. Show more

Margaret Stonborough investigates what happened to her Wittgenstein relations after the war, through the family archive. Show more

Geoffrey Robertson QC, Lynda Baron and Richard Davenport-Hines join Matthew Sweet to discuss the 1960s as Andrew Lloyd Webber prepares to launch his new musical Stephen Ward. Show more

Anne McElvoy talks to the newly-announced winner of the 2014 TS Eliot Prize. Plus playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz and classicist Edith Hall discussing Aeschylus's The Oresteia. Show more