Pirate radio – video clip and more stills and Bill Nighy on Pinter interview

Pirate Radio
More video clips and still from Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked) have been released. One of the funniest scenes in the film is where The Count (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is about to say the F-word on radio for the very first time. Quentin, boss of Radio Rock isn’t too pleased about that:

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Bill Nighy podcast about … running in Hyde Park!

Bill Nighy has recorded an exclusive Telegraph podcast for anyone wishing to train (running) in Hyde Park. The podcast describes the history of the royal parks and offers tips to runners.
Bill giving tips to runners, who would have thought!
The podcast is highly enjoyable, so be sure to listen to it.

If Bill has made [...]

Radio: Bill Nighy in Killing Maestros

BBC7 is repeating one of Bill’s radioplays on Thursday:
Killing Maestros
Wagner’s Tristan Und Isolde is the ‘Scottish Play’ of the opera world – jinxed with mysterious deaths. Conductor Sergei Bodanov (Bill Nighy) is convinced he will be the next to suffer. A starry cast of Bill Nighy, Henry Goodman, Lorelei King and Sylvestra La Touzel [...]

Radio: Bill Nighy in Cigarettes And Chocolate

BBC Radio is going to pay tribute to Anthony Minghella, the extraordinary writer/director who unfortuntely passed away recently at a too young an age.
BBC will broadcast some of Anthony Minghella’s radioplays and there are a lot of goodies to be expected not only for Nighy fans.
Saturday 3 May at 2.30pm
Radio 4 broadcasts Anthony Minghella’s original [...]

Bill Nighy – Strangers on a train (audio – 1994)

Here is a nice little Bill goody for your ears to indulge:
M Radio has a very nice older radio play with Bill Nighy for you to download:
Strangers On A Train By Patricia Highsmith
Adapted from the classic 1950 novel and the 1951 Hitchcock film.
With Anton Lesser, Michael Sheen, Saskia Reeves and Bill Nighy
Directed by Andy Jordan
Originally [...]

Enquiry radioplay with Bill Nighy on BBC7

Something to listen to in these quiet Nighy times
BBC7 sends Enquiry (1989) a radioplay with Bill Nighy
Saturday the 2nd of February from 12:00-13:30, and on Listen Again up until a week after.

Bill Nighy’s next Silksounding book is going to be …

It has taken a bid (…) longer than expected (which has to do with a very busy Bill and clearing rights for the book and so on) but it has been decided. After a clear win in the poll, Bill will dust off his vampire suit and find his fangs and read Bram Stoker’s Dracula [...]

Bill Nighy returns as Charles Paris: Murder Unprompted

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 [...]

Bill Nighy reads Eric Clapton:the Autobiography

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.

Bill Nighy radio alert for BBC7

BBC7, everybody’s favourite radio channel, especially when they broadcast radioplays with Bill is repeating
Enquiry (90 minutes)
Barry Campbell’s adaptation of Dick Francis’ novel, starring Tony Osoba, Jack May and Bill Nighy. When Kelly Hughes loses his licence as a jockey for something he didn’t do, he sets out to find out who framed him and [...]

Bill Nighy about his trip to Tanzania on BBC Radio 4

The BBC Radio 4 has a very interesting interview with Bill Nighy about his trip to Tanzania with Oxfam where he tells about his experience and his thoughts about how aid really helps. At the other side of the table, so to speak, sits Paul Collier former Director of the World Bank.
Listen to the [...]

Silksoundbooks and Bill Nighy launch

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 and Silk sounds

A short interview with Bill Nighy about Davy Jones at movieweb.
Bill Nighy also reveals what he is currently working on:
The thing I’ve mostly been involved in lately is a project that is basically my project, which is this thing where I want to put great books on your iPod, read by great people. So basically, [...]

More Bill Nighy on the radio

KCRW radio program The Business has a 7 minute interview with Bill Nighy about his career, Pirates.
Tune in, and hear it here.

More Nighy News on Notes and The Vertical Hour

A shortish interview with Bill Nighy about Pirates and Notes on a Scandal in Dailynews.
About playing Richard in Notes on a Scandal:
“When we shot the scene where I confront her with the affair, I hit a level of anger I’m not accustomed to reaching for.”
WNYC has a wonderful audio interview with Bill Nighy about Notes [...]