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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And we connected and we had a long conversation about how this has to feel like music, you know?
Yeah, I don't think it's about suicide at all.
It's about...
fighting back against oppression, even if you know that you will lose everything, possibly even your life.
It's actually, it's very clear in black and white in the text, the active verb here is about taking, it's about to take up arms.
You know, what he's saying is there's two choices.
You can carry on being
And it's very interesting.
He says, be not living, just be.
You can exist and you can exist and just suffer all the oppression and all the unfairness and all the injustice of the world and all the insults that life throws at you.
Or you can fight back.
But fighting back might mean you will not no longer be.
So it's really about whether we are willing to pay the price of true resistance, you know.
And it's actually a very, very radical speech.
It's very confronting.
It's tackling a taboo subject, really.
You know, the idea of taking up arms and resisting oppression and the powers that be, it's a dangerous idea, actually.
It can get you arrested if you discuss that openly to this day.
That's correct.
Yeah, yeah.
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