What Do You Think About AI Using Your Writing? (Your Radical Questions with Naomi Alderman)
Radical with Amol Rajan
BBC
4.5 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Best-selling author Naomi Alderman answers your questions about her first non-fiction book, how she feels about her writing being used to train AI models and whether there will be a new series of ‘The Power’ on Amazon Prime.
And Naomi also reveals exciting new details about her latest novel, called ‘The Strangers’, which is set to be released in September 2026.
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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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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | Before we get started, I need more of your radical questions for one of our absolutely fantastic guests. |
| 0:12.8 | This is something, if you recall, that we started just a few weeks ago as a little experiment, and it's gone rather well. |
| 0:18.6 | In fact, we're so pleased with how it's going that we're going to continue it into the new year, into 2026 and maybe even beyond. In the first week of January, |
| 0:26.2 | I'm going to be talking to an influential young academic called Louisa Munch, who has built a |
| 0:31.3 | huge following on social media where she applies her field of critical theory to the political |
| 0:37.1 | issues of the day. |
| 0:38.8 | She is particularly concerned about the rise of the far right and the power of nostalgia in politics. |
| 0:44.9 | So we're going to talk a bit about that. |
| 0:46.3 | And also about why, in her view, higher education should be free. |
| 0:50.8 | You can ask her about any of that, or perhaps you'd like to know more about life as an |
| 0:54.9 | academic or how she built her quite substantial social media following. Whatever it might be, |
| 1:01.1 | WhatsApp your question to us on 033-123-9480. Or you can email us radical at BBC.com.uk. We would love to get your radical questions for Louisa Munch. |
| 1:15.1 | Hello and welcome to your radical questions where I put your questions to one of our magnificent radical guests. |
| 1:22.3 | Remember, this is basically your chance to engage very directly and really connect with the super smart, super interesting |
| 1:28.3 | people that we have on this podcast and to ask them about their ideas for the future. |
| 1:33.1 | Thank you so much to all of our guests who've done this so far and to you for your many, |
| 1:37.2 | many, many questions. We're trying to get through as many of them as we can, I promise. |
| 1:40.8 | This is our last one of the year and I'm thrilled to say that I'm joined by the acclaimed |
| 1:45.4 | best-selling author Naomi Alderman. She's written several massively, massively popular novels, |
| 1:51.1 | including disobedience and The Power. This year, she released her first nonfiction book. |
| 1:56.8 | It's called Don't Burn Anyone at the Stake Today. It's inspired by a Radio 4 series on the third information age, a third information crisis. |
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