Will There Be a Revolt Against AI Music? (Your Radical Questions with Panos A. Panay)
Radical with Amol Rajan
BBC
4.5 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Panos A. Panay, president of the Grammy Awards and Recording Academy, answers your questions about how governments can better support musicians and whether an AI-free music platform could exist in the future.
He also explores whether royalties paid to artists’ estates could be redirected to help fund the next generation of musicians.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts |
| 0:04.5 | Newscast is on the face of it, a podcast about the news. |
| 0:11.2 | But it's also perhaps the world's most athletic podcast, |
| 0:14.0 | we have BBC correspondents dashing in and out, |
| 0:16.3 | ready to give us a deeper understanding of the biggest stories of the day. |
| 0:19.9 | Thankfully, we let them catch their breath before we actually start recording the podcast. |
| 0:24.2 | Listen to Newscast every day on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:27.5 | Hello and welcome to your radical questions. |
| 0:30.1 | This is where I put your questions to one of our magnificent radical guests. |
| 0:34.2 | It's basically a chance for you to really, really connect with them. |
| 0:36.6 | Engage very directly through the wonders of technology with the super-spart, super-interesting and very |
| 0:42.6 | influential people that we have on this podcast and really ask them about their ideas for the future, |
| 0:48.7 | ideas that are radical and otherwise. By the way, coming up in the next few weeks, I'm going to be |
| 0:52.6 | exploring the issue of fast fashion with a woman who set up a business designed to combat it. And I'm also going to be |
| 0:58.5 | looking at how geography, where you grew up, influences your life chances with a man who connects |
| 1:03.5 | talented young people from deprived areas with mentors, universities and employers. Sort of thing I |
| 1:09.1 | feel I could have some interesting questions about. |
| 1:11.9 | So if you have a question about either of those subjects, |
| 1:14.0 | fast fashion or social mobility, |
| 1:15.5 | the influence of geography on life chances, |
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