Introducing... Radical with Amol Rajan
Radical with Amol Rajan
BBC
4.5 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Conversations about tomorrow, from Today.
Every week Amol Rajan talks to radicals, pioneers and innovators from all over the world.
From populism and climate change, to economics and AI... How can their radical ideas help you win the future?
Episodes of Radical with Amol Rajan will be published on Thursdays on BBC Sounds starting on 12th June 2025. It will also be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Thursdays at 11pm. Visualised versions of the podcast will also be available on BBC iPlayer and YouTube.
Amol Rajan is a presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4. He is also the host of University Challenge on BBC One. Before that, Amol was media editor at the BBC and editor at The Independent.
Radical with Amol Rajan is a Today Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | Right, are you feeling ready? |
| 0:07.5 | I'm feeling ready. |
| 0:08.4 | All right, let's do it, as someone once said. |
| 0:23.9 | Right, this is very exciting. |
| 0:25.8 | This is very, very exciting. |
| 0:30.6 | Welcome to the launch of a new podcast, which in case you haven't noticed is called Radical with a Mul Rajan. |
| 0:32.1 | And this is, well, it's wonderful. |
| 0:35.1 | It's going to be a series of conversations about tomorrow with the coolest people on the planet. |
| 0:41.1 | And by coolest, I mean smart as hell, thoughtful, influential, powerful, pioneering and sometimes controversial. |
| 0:50.4 | And I should be really open right at the beginning and say to you that there are going to be guests who really piss you off. |
| 1:00.1 | You know what? That's a good thing. I think it's a good thing to encounter ideas that you think are mad, bad and dangerous. I think the way we press forward as a society, and I think this, you know, I do want us to |
| 1:11.1 | come up with solutions, is to encounter and engage with ideas that some people find slightly too |
| 1:16.1 | radical. And I want this podcast to be a safe space for those radical thinkers. And we have got some |
| 1:21.6 | absolutely fantastic, fantastic, really magnificent guests have already said yes, which is very, very, very exciting. |
| 1:29.5 | And what I want is for people listening to this podcast, which is you, to leave every single |
| 1:35.2 | episode with a much better understanding of the enormous forces that are reshaping our world |
| 1:40.6 | and above all, a sense of what you can do immediately to not just survive, |
| 1:45.5 | but thrive in that world. My kind of headline or subheadline to myself is this is a podcast |
| 1:49.5 | about how to win the future. And that future is happening in a hurry. And I want to help you |
| 1:55.3 | understand it in the company of some really amazing minds and influential thinkers. |
| 1:59.4 | I want to tell a little story, if I may, |
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