Amol Rajan

About this episode

Gyles Brandreth interviews Amol Rajan about his background, career, and personal experiences with grief and literature.

In this episode, Gyles is charmed and fascinated by Amol Rajan, the podcaster, broadcaster and host of Radical and Radio 4's Today programme. Amol tells Gyles about his family background - his parents moved to the UK from India when he was three years old. He talks about his father's insatiable love of English literature, his mother's brilliant cooking, and his own love of cricket. He talks about decline and opportunity, and why he has chosen to leave Radio 4. And finally, Amol and Gyles discuss bereavement, grief and Hamlet. Amol Rajan's podcast Radical is available to download here . Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube here . Join The Rosebud Family here . And visit our website here . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Gyles Brandreth

Guest: Amol Rajan

Topics covered

• family background
• bereavement
• grief
• literature
• cooking
• cricket
• media

Keywords

• Amol Rajan
• Gyles Brandreth
• Radio 4
• Hamlet
• bereavement
• cricket
• literature
• family

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Radio 4, Radical

Books & works: Hamlet

Places: UK, India

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