Bill Nighy
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12 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 6d ago
Bill Nighy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So those are the songs that haunt me and hound me currently.
They come and they go, but those are definitely, those are, they're lifers.
They've been with me for most of my life and I'm not ashamed to say it.
And you can find a link to the list in the show notes, which will lead you to Spotify and Apple Music.
This week's book is by James Baldwin, and it's called The Fire Next Time.
A friend of mine told me that he had heard of a man named
who, when he read this book, bought hundreds of copies and drove all over America, depositing them in mobile libraries, schools, and all over America because he thought that every American, with the emphasis on white Americans, should read this book.
This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish.
Let me spell out precisely what I mean by that.
For the heart of the matter is here and the root of my dispute with my country.
You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
The limits of your ambition were thus expected to be set forever.
You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity and in as many ways as possible that you were a worthless human being.
You were not expected to aspire to excellence.
You were expected to make peace with mediocrity.
Wherever you have turned, James, in your short time on this earth, you have been told where you could go and what you could do and how you could do it and where you could live and whom you could marry.
I know your countrymen do not agree with me about this, and I hear them saying, you exaggerate.
They do not know Harlem, and I do.
So do you.
Take no one's word for anything, including mine, but trust your experience.
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