Listen online to the latest programme

Rhod started stand up in early 2002. Within eighteen months, he was the only person in the UK to reach the finals of every major new talent competition in the country, winning an unprecedented four awards, including the most prestigious BBC New Comedy Awards.

He's now emerged as one of the most promising and exciting talents on the UK and international comedy scene, often labelled as the "second-hardest working stand-up in the business" (we'll leave you to discover who the alledged number one is using a search engine).

After being singled out by the Sunday Times as One To Watch in 2005, Rhod went on to scoop the Chortle Award For Best Breakthrough Act.

He made a huge splash at the Edinburgh Festival with his hotly anticipated debut show, Rhod Gilbert's 1984. The show earned him a nomination for the prestigious Perrier Best Newcomer Award and The Writer's Guild Of Great Britain and The List Comedy Award. In 2008 Rhod then followed this up with a nomination as best act at the festival's main awards (the IF Award, formerly the Perrier Award).

Rhod is now in tremendous demand on the live comedy circuit and headlines regularly in the UK and around the world.

Further afield, his international profile continues to soar. He travels widely to great acclaim in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Brussels, Paris and to the Middle and Far East where he's performed in Dubai, Doha, Bahrain, Hong Kong, Manila and Thailand as well as being the first comedian ever to perform in Taiwan. Rhod frequently brings us his live Radio Wales show from these far-flung venues; on a tour of the Far East in September 2008 he presented his Saturday morning show live from Hong Kong and Bangkok.

Rhod has also performed in a tour of Iraq where he spent a week entertaining the British troops performing 11 shows in and around Basra; he's even done a show in one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces.

Sometimes it's just Rhod's voice you'll hear even when he's on the big or small screen; as well as being a regular voice on several BBC Three entertainment shows, he's also followed in the footsteps of Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey, Aled Jones and Charlotte Church, by being the "Voice Of Wales" on the Wales Tourist Board's UK television advertising campaign.