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Dish

Amol Rajan, coconut fish curry and a piña colada

Dish

Cold Glass Productions

Comedy, Arts, Food, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Nick and Angela welcome their final guest of season 4 to Dish HQ. Amol Rajan was born in Kolkata and raised in south London. As a boy he dreamt of becoming a cricketer and would watch tapes of Shane Warne on repeat. He studied English at the University of Cambridge before beginning a career in journalism, becoming one of the youngest ever UK editors of a national newspaper, the Independent, in 2013. Amol spent six years as the BBC’s media editor before taking over the reins on two of their flagship shows, co-hosting Radio 4’s Today programme, along with the Today podcast, and last year succeeding Jeremy Paxman as quizmaster on University Challenge. Nick mixes a cocktail for Amol, who calls himself a piña colada obsessive, while Angela prepares a delicious coconut fish curry with scotch bonnet & makrut lime leaves. The experts at Waitrose pair the meal with a Saint Clair Gimblett Gravels Reserve Viognier from New Zealand. A seasoned conversationalist and big fan of Dish, Amol jumps straight into chats about the challenges of a very early alarm call, parenting four children and what kind of restaurant critic he used to be. Just so you know, our podcast might contain the occasional mild swear word or adult theme. All recipes from this podcast can be found at waitrose.com/dishrecipes A transcript for this episode can be found at waitrose.com/dish Thank you for sending your dilemmas to Angela at [email protected] Please keep them coming - she will be back to answer them in season 5. Dish is a S:E Creative Studio production for Waitrose & Partners Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

DISH from Waitros is an SE creative studio production.

0:05.0

This podcast may contain some strong language and adult themes. Oh, hello, hello and welcome to Dish from Weight Trials. I'm Nett Grimshaw, and I'm Angela Hartnett.

0:19.4

And today our guest is someone, Angie, that you are a are a big big fan of aren't you?

0:24.6

Big favorite shows.

0:26.4

Amal Rajan is going to be with us in a second.

0:29.0

He's done all the jobs Amal.

0:30.8

Of course he does the Today program.

0:32.4

He's got the Today Podcast, which he does with Nick Robinson.

0:35.7

So do you start your day with this man every day?

0:38.5

Yes, I do. Talk me through your morning routine. So get up. So my morning routine well no I line bed the alarm

0:44.0

goes off but I've been very good at just having the alarm clock now so try and

0:47.9

get the phone out of the room and we purchased a radio so now we switch

0:52.3

the radio on and we line bed listening to a bit of one

0:55.2

extra. Yeah. One extra. Don't even know what that is.

1:00.2

You get the today program and I'm ready for form. And then I put it on my phone and as I get ready

1:05.5

around the house I listen to it on sort of route.

1:08.1

I've only, if I am honest, I only started radio four in halfway through 2023.

1:13.4

And what were you listening to?

1:14.4

The Today program, yeah.

1:16.6

Because I didn't really know what was going on in the world.

1:18.8

Or I knew what was going on in the world,

1:20.4

but I was like, why did this start?

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