Is Capitalism Holding Back Social Mobility? (Your Radical Questions with Joe Seddon)
Radical with Amol Rajan
BBC
4.5 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Founder of the tech driven social enterprise Zero Gravity, Joe Seddon answers your radical questions about boosting social mobility in the UK and helping talented young people from low opportunity areas realise their potential. Amol and Joe explore how volunteering can become a powerful engine for skill building, discuss the rise in youth unemployment, and unpack Joe’s prediction that the next 15 years could bring a “blue collar rebellion” as AI reshapes white collar work. GET IN TOUCH * WhatsApp: 0330 123 9480 * Email: radical@bbc.co.uk Episodes of Radical with Amol Rajan are released every Thursday and you can also watch them on BBC iPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002f1d0/radical-with-amol-rajan 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. It was made by Lewis Vickers with Anna Budd. Digital production was by Gabriel Purcell-Davis. Technical production was by James Piper. The editor is Sam Bonham. The executive producer is Owenna Griffiths.
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| 0:26.0 | Hello and welcome to your radical questions, where I put your questions to one of our very |
| 0:31.2 | radical guests. This is, remember, if you're listening to this episode or one of these |
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| 0:44.2 | and to ask them about their ideas for the future. |
| 0:47.8 | Today we are joined by a tech entrepreneur who is trying to tackle the issues that hold people back |
| 0:52.9 | in terms of fulfilling their potential and hold hold people back in terms of fulfilling their potential |
| 0:54.9 | and hold this country back in terms of social mobility. |
| 0:58.3 | We've just had a terrific conversation in our main episode. |
| 1:01.8 | He's now ready to take your questions and I cannot recommend that main episode, |
| 1:05.1 | which we released last Thursday strongly enough. |
| 1:07.4 | We are sat here in the Radical Studio with Joe Seddon, founder of the, I would |
| 1:13.5 | take mission-driven tech platform social enterprise, would you say, Joe? Yeah, exactly, because |
| 1:18.3 | we're trying to transform sociability by building technology. And I personally think that tech, |
| 1:24.8 | even though it's associated usually with sort of, |
| 1:27.5 | no, big glass offices and apps that mainly benefit the rich can be something that |
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