Kai Wright

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819 appearances 18 recordings 7 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 6 Jul

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Infamous · Richard Pryor: The Man Who Burned It All Down | From Big Lives · 13 Apr 2026 podcast

And so we want to bring them back to life, look into their complicated, big lives.

And we're using the treasure trove of the BBC archive to do that.

There is over 100 years of tape of some of the biggest cultural figures in our world.

The BBC's got it.

And so we're digging through it.

So, listen, first off, the basics of Richard Pryor, if you don't know who he is, he is a genre-defining comedian.

Just if you talk to almost any comedian today, certainly of his era, they would say he's the GOAT, you know.

He just had a titanic career, five Grammys.

He was the first Black person to host SNL.

He was the first Black person to make a million dollars in a movie.

Wait, what?

Yeah.

Okay.

So as I've been rooting around in the archive for Richard Pryor, there's this clip I found of his daughter, Rain Pryor, in 2006.

So it's right after he died.

They did a documentary about his life.

And she said this interesting thing.

Listen to this.

And, you know, like, that honesty thing, the telling the truth piece, like, that's the core Richard Pryor.

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