Amol Rajan
4/10/20261 hr 16 min
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.
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First 90 secondsGyles Brandreth· Host0:00
Coming to you live from London, this is Gyles Brandreth with another episode of Rosebud. [on-hold music] Hello, I'm Gyles Brandreth, and you're listening to Rosebud. This is a podcast that goes out twice a week. On Fridays, we give you interviews with remarkable people. On Tuesdays, well, we sometimes meet remarkable people as well, but more often than not on a Tuesday, my producer, Harriet Jane, and I sit down, and we leaf through my diaries. On Fridays on Rosebud, we've had all sorts of guests. We, well, we've had scientists, we've had sports personalities, we've had a lot of actors, we've had some politicians. We've had a range of people. On the whole, we haven't had too many journalists, not too many broadcasters. I think the reason for that is that I'm a journalist. I'm a broadcaster. So it doesn't feel as special to me as perhaps it should be. So we're making an exception this week. We have got a journalist and a broadcaster, but the reason he's here is that his own story, I think, is fascinating, and his view of his life, his upbringing, his parents, his grandparents