Sir Lenny Henry
speaker
1,588 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 24 Jun
Sir Lenny Henry’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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How are you?
Nice to meet you.
Yeah.
In showbiz.
Yeah, it's not about my career, but it's also celebrating.
When I grew up in Dudley in the West Midlands, we were, over there was Enoch Powell, the rivers of blood.
And over there was Peter Griffiths, who sort of stormed an election with the phrase, if you want an N word for a neighbour, vote Labour.
Sorry to bring you down.
But I lived in the middle of that.
So I grew up being bullied and having racist abuse told at me going to school.
And this show, doing this now in the 21st century, it's funny, but it's also extraordinary that we're still going through sexism, racism, homophobia, all of those things.
And it makes an observation, not in a big finger-wavy way, that these things are going on and we have to be alert.
So it's all right being funny, but you've got to be funny in the right way and be talking about things that matter.
So I'm trying to do that.
As well as talking about going to garden centers and my girlfriend being better at cleaning than I am.
So I'm talking about all kinds of things which I never thought I'd be talking about on stage.
Yeah.
Because I didn't think I was going to be doing stand-up anymore.
I thought I was done.
Yeah.
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