WOMAD is just less than a week away from its annual pilgrimage to the idyllic Charlton Park near Malmesbury.

Among the many musical talents from every corner of the globe include a giant of African music Baaba Maal, rock and roll hall of famer George Clinton in The George Clinton Parliament-Funkadelic, one-of-a-kind indie troubadour John Grant, and 'Queen of flamenco fusion' Buika.

They will be joined by French jazz-house pioneer St Germain, one of the godfathers of British hip-hop Roots Manuva, groundbreaking Scottish folk balladeer King Creosote, Grammy winning sitar-superstar Anoushka Shankar, the infectious New Orleans jazz funk party Hot 8 Brass Band and many more.

Bowers & Wilkins, the British audio innovator, will also make a return to the festival with its acclaimed sound system adding new sonic layers to the music of Dawn Penn, Jah Shaka, The Invisible and Optimo among others.

BBC Radio 3 will continue their instrumental support of the festival, curating a diverse range of acts on the Charlie Gillett Stage and broadcasting live from the festival every day including a live simulcast with BBC Radio 6 Music on Sunday morning (July 31) fronted by Cerys Matthews.

In a new addition for 2016, The Physics Pavilion bridges the gap between science and entertainment, with a fun and fascinating programme featuring the likes of lead Doctor Who writer Steven Moffat who will discuss how the programme blends science fact with science fiction.

Among other horizon-expanding activities on offer at the Physics Pavilion are opportunities to learn about space weather, light drawing and the physics of fireworks, get hands on by creating a cloud-in-a-box and go live into the control room of the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland and hear from those who work there.

In addition to this, WOMAD’s broad range of food and drink includes the return of the Taste The World stage, which sees performers cook a dish from their native country for the audience – and a new partnership with sustainable wine merchants Yalumba, who will be providing some delicious wines to wash it down with.

To find out more about the festival, visit http://womad.co.uk/