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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Fresh Air · Riz Ahmed is chasing acceptance in 'Bait' · 23 Mar 2026 podcast

Is he abandoning where he's from?

Is he abandoning his family?

Has he forgotten actually who he really is?

And so the show is trying to deal with that.

And I think that that's something that, you know, we all kind of go through where we're often pulled between the people we were and the people we want to be.

And actually the healthy equilibrium is probably somewhere in the middle.

You know, probably that thing you want to be is like an attempt to escape reality.

And that thing you were is maybe, you know, a version of yourself you need to evolve out of.

But we often feel pulled between those two polarities.

Oh, man, I started kind of scrambling down ideas for this show in 2014.

And I started doing that because, as I said, the gap between my public and private self started becoming so big and so stressful, they actually started feeling kind of hilarious.

I'll give you an example.

Yeah, like the week that it got revealed that, you know, OK, I'm in the new Star Wars and they released a cast photograph of us all on set.

That same week, I got banned from my local supermarket for suspected shoplifting.

because my washing machine had broken only clean clothes I had were flip-flops bright pink swim shorts a bright green puffer jacket and a tank top I'm dragging a massive bag of dirty clothes around to the laundromat I remember it's my brother's birthday I haven't got him a cake I go to Tesco's I'm trying to get him a cake they got no cake I buy a frozen pizza with birthday candles I'm

I'm at checkout.

It seems like an insane thing I'm buying anyway.

It's like, yeah, birthday candles and pizza.

I'm dressed insanely.

I've got this massive laundry bag and I forgot to beep it properly on the checkout and...

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