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A podcast for people who don’t get out much and can’t handle it when they do. A refuge for the clumsy and the awkward. Join Bill Nighy to squander some time as he attempts to answer your questions and dilemmas without actually making things worse.

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Those Were The Days When We Used To Work Nights

October 8, 2026

Bill Nighy (0:02)

Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, depending where you are on the planet. This is Bill Nighy, and this is ill-advised by Bill Nighy. And the clue is in the title as always. And we are here to help you waste time and to be as inconsequential as it's possible for anyone to be. Our mission is to give you a…

All right, not above the bed, maybe in the kitchen.

Logan (1:37)

Hello Bill, it's Logan from Oxford. I have discovered over the last few years that birds are some of the most delightful things, and I spend a lot of my time just watching them going about their little lives.

Do you consider yourself in any way to be a bird person? And if so, do you have any particular favorites?

Bill Nighy (1:56)

Thank you, Logan. I don't have a favorite bird. I saw yesterday or the day before I went to Folkestone, and I saw a cormorant or shag.

You may have seen those birds that are long-necked and dark, and they fly at speed across the very low and on the surface of the water of the sea, and they're either a cormorant or a shag. When I was a boy, there was a poem that schools taught about the mystery of the Marie Celeste, which was a boat, a ship, that…

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