No new films with Bill Nighy in the cinema this year does not mean that we don’t get a fair deal of Billiciousness anyway.
BBC4 will broadcast a brand new romantic comedy radio play, it is called I Wish to Apologise for My Part in the Apocalypse and if you want to hear it, you have [...]
Bill Nighy will be one of the voice actors in the upcoming CG animation feature Astro Boy.
Astro Boy is about a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist to replace the son he has lost. Unable to fulfill the grieving father’s expectations, our hero embarks on a journey in search of [...]
BBC7 is repeating Bill reading Animal Farm from Monday.
Animal Farm
Bill Nighy reads from George Orwell’s satirical fable of a revolution which went wrong.
Monday 9th of June - Friday 13th of June at 1pm on BBC7
And on listen again, up until 7 days after the day of broadcasting.
Enjoy!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The NY times has 2 minutes of Billiciousness from the Vertical Hour, accompanied by pictures from the play.
Speakers on and go for it.
Comingsoon.net has another clip of Flushed Away, with the villainous Toad (McKellen) and his two hapless henchrats, Spike (Andy Serkis) and Whitey (Bill Nighy).
Watch it here (it’s quicktime format)
Good old BBC7 is repeating episodes from Yes Minister, and Bill Nighy is guest-starring in the upcoming episode : Open Government.
So : radio’s on on Monday the 23th of October, from 14.30-15.00, repeated Tuesday the 24th of October at 6.30am, all on BBC7.
For all non-UK residents : BBC7’s online Listen again service saves your day.
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 [...]