Bill Nighy
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3,810 appearances
13 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 5d ago
Bill Nighy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I pretty much take what I'm given.
Clara, this is something I've struggled with as well.
And one of my least favorite phenomena is people of my age or maybe younger explaining to young people, trying to sell them the idea that their youth, by which they mean the 60s and the 70s, was better, more exciting.
sexier than it's ever going to be for the current young.
And it's a nasty and totally inaccurate idea.
The idea that the 60s and the 70s were enlightened
is almost entirely mythical.
It was, you know, it was just as Martin Amis once remarked, it was just a new way of men getting away with everything.
Like, baby, be cool.
Or love the one you're with.
One of my least favorite songs.
I mean, homosexuality was only legal in this country from 1967.
And even then there was an enormous amount of prejudice.
the whole idea you know governments and shady political figures have always tried to sell you the idea that it was really really great just before usually about a generation back it was really great and apparently someone told me that this has always been the case throughout history like a monk in 1670 would write something bemoaning how the world had gone to pot
But it was really, really great at the turn of the century.
They've always done it.
And it's always like a generation before.
And it's a very easy baby talk idea that you can sell to voters every election time by trying to sell them the idea that you're going to restore the world to when it was really, really great, you know.
It was never great.
It was always exactly pretty much the same.
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