Riz Ahmed

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1,209 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 10 Jun

Riz Ahmed’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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again, it was the distance between that public and private self.

And I felt that if my public self gets too close to my reality, it'll fall apart again.

Severed pig's head.

So yes, the critical inner voice in Bait is a severed pig's head.

It was sent to the family as a racist attack.

And it's about, I guess, how we can internalize the criticism of us, internalize the prejudice.

So it starts to become almost like his best friend.

And for me, for a long time, my critical inner voice was something I didn't want to lose.

I was worried that if I make peace with it or turn the volume down on that too much, I'll get lazy.

I'll get complacent.

I remember even when we won an Oscar for our short film, it's so funny.

It was almost like the Oscar was looking at me going, you ain't shit.

The kind of elation lasted as long as me going there, collecting it, going backstage, going to the toilet, coming back and sitting down again.

By the time I sat down, in fact, I would say my critical inner voice was at an all time high when I was sat there holding that old screw in my hand.

Because it was almost like a survival mechanism.

My brain was going, that voice, that part of my brain was going crazy.

Don't put your feet up now.

Don't think you can get complacent.

Don't kick back.

I have programmed you to strive, not to savor.

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