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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And it paid off, you know?
And what's great is it pays off.
And you don't have to be nervous as long as you've done the work.
If you haven't done the work, if you're just trying to blag it, it might go wrong halfway through.
Yeah, proof it pays off.
Yeah, it was lovely to win that.
I was with Richard Curtis today, actually, and we often talk about it.
We're both saying it's extraordinary that it's still going, because we didn't think it was going to... We did the show at the Shaftesbury Theatre,
And Richard had just been to Ethiopia because there'd been a terrible famine in there and he just wanted to get a sense of what he could do and everything.
And then he came back and he said to me, will you help me?
Because I knew people, I had my own show.
Lenny, Lenny, Lenny.
I had that show in the 80s.
And Delbert Wilkins and Deacus and stuff.
And people knew who I was.
And so he said, will you help me?
Because people, I just write, not the 9 o'clock news, nobody knows who I am yet.
You know, I hadn't done four when he was at a funeral.
So I just wrote with Richard to everybody in Shelby's to say, will you do this show?
And quite a lot of people, the older guys, didn't want to do it because they thought...
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