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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Appearances
So I started to seek and desire that.
And Barry Rutter from Northern Broadsides came to see me.
And I was doing a radio show called What's So Great About?
You know, Bob Dylan, the Pogues, maths, that stuff.
And one of the shows was What's So Great About Shakespeare?
And Barry Rutter came on the radio to do a kind of insert about why Shakespeare should be done in your own accent.
You shouldn't just do it in a posh voice.
To be or not to be, that's the question.
It could be to be or not to be, that's the question.
Whether just normal or in your mind, you can do it in your own accent, wherever you're from.
And it was a game changer for me because I'd always been scared of Shakespeare, you know, because at my school...
Me and Ronnie Barton were made to read out Romeo and Juliet.
It was not pretty.
To be like, Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
It was just not good.
And so I just thought it was the posh people with tights on, with the cucumber down their tights.
I just thought it was for them, not for me.
And then Rutter did, oh, for a muse of fire, down the phone.
And it was brilliant.
It made the hairs on my arms stand up.
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