As the Times puts it:
“Typical – you wait ages for a Bill Nighy, and then . . . as well as reading from Eric Clapton’s autobiography, the great thesp returns as Simon Brett’s Charles Paris, the failed actor, much more successful amateur detective and Olympic-standard drunken womaniser. He is brilliant at it, so much a [...]
BBC Radio 4 will broadcast a brand new Charles Paris Mystery with Bill Nighy as Charles Paris.
Here is the info from BBC about Murder Unprompted:
As ever, seedy, middle-aged actor Charles is his own worst enemy: a lush who can resist anything except temptation – especially in the form of women and alcohol. His intentions may [...]
BBC Radio2 will broadcast bits of Bill Nighy reading Eric Clapton: The Autobiography. The first part of Bill reading the book will be send on:
Friday the 5th of October at 9.15 pm-9.30 pm (GMT). It is part 1 of 6, so there is more to come on the 5 following Fridays.
Tune in and Rock out.
(Hat [...]
According to booktrade.info Bill Nighy will read Eric Clapton: the Autobiography for Random House books.
What better choice than to have Bill Nighy read the autobiography of a rock star.
The audiobook will be available from the 9th of October..
Rock ‘n Roll in your ear.
Voting is going well in the Vote for Bill Nighy’s next silksounding book! poll, 120 people have casted their vote on their favourite book for Bill to read.
As Bill hasn’t decided on a book nor started reading yet – the poll will remain open for a little while longer.
A short official update from Silksoundbooks:
Both Wuthering [...]
BBC7 is repeating 2 radio plays starring Bill Nighy. You can catch them on the day of broadcast, or up to 7 days after they have been send on Listen Again.
Killing Maestros (45 minutes)
Known as the ‘Scottish Play’ of the opera world, Wagner’s Tristan Und Isolde appears to be jinxed. Conductor Sergei Bodanov [...]
Bill Nighy and Edgar Allan Poe
The suggested book titles for Bill to read have been collected, and here is the result list. Now it is time to cast your vote on the book you want Bill Nighy to read next for Silksoundbooks. The people at Silksoundbooks will then go and do their very best to [...]
Bill Nighy and Edgar Allan Poe
Silksoundbooks, Bill Nighy’s silk sounding voicilicious book reading project has just held their official launch party in Soho, London.
Bill gave a short speech expressing gratitude to the host of fellow readers who attended, for helping to begin the process of building this great library of cassic literature. He particularly mentioned [...]
The website for Silksoundbooks is now officially open and you can buy
The Dupin Mysteries By Edgar Allan Poe read by Bill Nighy (recorded while being in New York doing The Vertical Hour!).
Bill Nighy is one of the share holders of Silksoundbooks and also ambassador for the project. The website contains a long list of [...]
Bill Nighy is listed on the Bafta longlist for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Notes on a Scandal. This longlist has 15 names for every category, which will be brought back to 5 names before the BAFTA’s really take off.
Notes on a Scandal is nominated in the best film category too.
See the whole [...]
The NY times has 2 minutes of Billiciousness from the Vertical Hour, accompanied by pictures from the play.
Speakers on and go for it.
Bill Nighy – Whitey – Flushed Away
The coolest rat on the planet.
Flushed Away has premiere on 3rd of November 2006.
(More from Flushed Away)
Update: Loads and loads of Flushed Away goodies over at Coming.soon, including a movie featurette, and 10 clips from the film. It’s looking great. (Check the icemaker for Bill)
Love Hurts offers up four souls suffering from affairs of the heart. These stories by Steve Almond, Ron Carlson, Arthur Miller, and Pamela Painter will charm you, move you, and leave you wanting more.
And BAFTA Film and Television Award winner Bill Nighy (Love Actually, State of Play) introduces a new Olympic sport as he battles [...]
Bill Nighy – Whitey, albino ex-lab rat in Flushed Away
Movieweb has several new movie stills from the upcoming Flushed Away. Bill Nighy does the voice of Whitey, a not too bright white albino ex-lab rat. But hey, he gets to wear a suit, and you got to love his chain.
Other voice actors in this [...]
BBC4 has broadcasted the program CP Cafavy : Reaching Ithaka.
In this evocative portrait, Bill Nighy reads some of Greek Poet Cavafy’s best known works, including his most famous poem, Ithaka.
(From bbc4)
You can hear the program on Listen Again here.. The program will be repeated on the radio on the 26th of August, 23.30-0.00 on BBC [...]
You want to rub your shoulders with a royal, don't you
Bill will read Dracula!
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