Riz Ahmed
speaker
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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You know, if you're interested in poetry, if you're interested in lyricism, if you're interested in rhythm, like Shakespeare's doing that.
He's playing in all those arenas.
And so it was clear to me very early on, but something that isn't also lost on me is at the same time I was studying under Rob Clair and doing a master's in classical acting, which is essentially just a master's and just in Shakespeare performance.
That's when I started on the rap battle circuit in London and things like Jump Off and Battle Scars and Bombay Bronx and...
you know, competing in all these championships.
And so it did somehow in my mind feel like it's one thing.
So I grew up in the mid-90s in the UK.
I grew up in Wembley.
Wembley is both the site of England's greatest triumph in the 1966 World Cup and also...
You know, in the shadow of that stadium, I'd go every Sunday to Wembley Market, which is where you'd buy the Chinese spring roll and the immigrant kind of food stalls and the fake designer clothes that we'd buy and sell over there.
You know, amongst that kind of working class and immigrant community.
And pirate radio station culture was just...
That was just everywhere, you know.
Yes, you'd have, you know, the BBC radio stations and the other London stations, but in between all those airwaves, all the FM frequencies that were not spoken for, you'd hear a faint crackle and then the voice of MCs on microphones that were broadcasting from the roofs of housing projects locally.
And that's pirate radio culture.
So it was there that I was kind of exposed more and more to drum and bass and garage, particularly when I was too young to actually go to the raves themselves.
As soon as I was old enough to kind of...
try and hack off whatever faint facial hair I had and try and, like, grow it back thicker.
You know, I was at the raves themselves.
And, you know, I just love the music.
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