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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It was like, oh yeah, I've just slipped into this kind of lazy narrative.

It's like...

It's not what it's about.

I find it hard like kind of doing nothing.

Something that is starting to help is reading.

I'm very poorly read.

No, I don't believe that, really.

Yeah, I kind of like... Through your work, I would like... I pick up a lot of things in like... I listen to a lot of music.

I listen to podcasts.

I watch talks.

I go to talks.

I talk to people.

But I had like growing up crazy ADHD.

And I would get into a lot of trouble at school.

Now I look back, I'm like, oh, of course, that's what that was.

And, you know, there's loads of different ways in which that manifests.

So sitting down to read a book was like torture.

It was historically, again, the narrative, oh, I don't read, I can't read.

Recently, particularly being married to a novelist, that was like, this is a bit of a deal breaker.

You need to be reading books.

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