BBC World Service - The Arts Hour

The Arts Hour International Comedy Show

Join us as we say goodbye to 2020 in style with some of the world’s funniest comedians

Featuring soprano Fatma Said, violinist Timothy Ridout and the Trish Clowes Jazz trio.

We celebrate Italian performance artists who have risen to the challenges of Covid-19

We meet authors speaking at Granite Noir the crime writing festival in Aberdeen, Scotland

Tim Minchin joins Nikki from Australia to discuss his debut studio album Apart Together

Viggo Mortensen tells us about his new movie Falling

Gillian Anderson on being Margaret Thatcher in the latest season of The Crown

Tilda Swinton on why she wanted to work with Pedro Almodóvar on his film The Human Voice

Oscar-winning star Matthew McConaughey predicts the future of going to the movies

Actor Elisabeth Moss discusses her latest role playing the writer Shirley Jackson