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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Yes, we're also there holding down a fort, Rainer's Lane, Sudbury Town.

So, but it's interesting.

It's this kind of little pocket corner of the world that's super multicultural.

You know, because of that, I think it's like a real creative hotbed and you get some interesting stuff happening there.

There we go.

The first question is, what is the best advice you've ever heard or received?

Idris Elba once said to me, categorize yourself not.

I'd hit a glass ceiling in my career in the UK.

He was like, you should go to America.

I'm like, bro, what are they going to do with a guy like me over there?

You're going to do nothing.

I'm this.

They don't have that.

They have that.

I'm not this.

And he went, categorize yourself not my friend.

And actually when you do that, you're doing other people's work for them.

It's about the limitations people place on you, how we internalize them.

And then we perpetuate that narrative and go, and I'm this, this is my lane.

I'm this flavor.

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