2025 Lookahead
Radical with Amol Rajan
BBC
4.5 • 917 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Amol and Nick with their take on what to expect in 2025.
From a year of protest in the UK to what Donald Trump’s return to the White House might mean for the world. Plus, some reasons to be cheerful, and former Today sports presenter Garry Richardson returns with a prediction about tennis star Novak Djokovic.
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The Today Podcast is hosted by Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson who are both presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Amol was the BBC’s media editor for six years and is the former editor of the Independent, he’s also the current presenter of University Challenge. Nick has presented the Today programme since 2015, he was the BBC’s political editor for ten years before that and also previously worked as ITV’s political editor.
This episode was made by Lewis Vickers with Nadia Gyane and Grace Reeve. Digital production was by Nadia Gyane. The technical producer was Ben Andrews. The editor is Louisa Lewis. The executive producer is Owenna Griffiths.
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| 0:00.0 | We get it. Life is busy. You want to keep up with the news, but there's just too much going on. |
| 0:06.9 | Which is where Newscast comes in. We do the work, and when you're ready to dig deeper into the day's news, you just pop us into your ears. |
| 0:14.8 | It does mean we have to put in the hard work, though. |
| 0:17.5 | Listen to Newscast every day on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:21.6 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, though. Listen to newscast every day on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:25.4 | Welcome to 2025. |
| 0:26.8 | And at the start of this new year, we thought here on the Pod Squad, on the Today Podcast, |
| 0:30.9 | that it would be a good idea to do something almost as foolish as making a resolution. |
| 0:36.0 | Yeah, I've never managed to keep a resolution, so frankly, I've stopped making them. |
| 0:40.6 | And it's equally unlikely that the predictions we make in this episode won't stand the test of time. |
| 0:47.7 | But we're going to give it a go, because trying to work out what might happen in the next 12 months does tell you quite a lot, even if you sometimes get it wrong. |
| 0:56.0 | So what can we expect from 2025? We're going to tell you what we think might just happen. |
| 1:00.8 | And we're also going to hear from the one and only Gary Richardson, who joined us for our look back at 2024, but just couldn't quite help looking ahead to 2025. |
| 1:10.6 | Is he going to win the Australian Open? but if he does, will he then retire? |
| 1:15.5 | And a lot of people that I've spoken to on the circuit say if he does, |
| 1:18.9 | when you see him towards the end of January on the court in Australia, in Melbourne, |
| 1:24.7 | he might say, I've won, and enough is enough. It's going to be really, really |
| 1:28.6 | interesting. |
| 1:29.3 | Shall we find out who he's talking about? Yeah, let's do it. |
| 1:47.8 | Hello, it's Amol in the Today Podcast studio. |
| 1:48.7 | And it's Nick. |
| 1:49.9 | Happy New Year. |
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