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Radical with Amol Rajan — 229 episodes
Could Climate Engineering Do More Bad Than Good for the Environment? (Your Radical Questions with Professor David Keith)
Engineering the Climate: Can Injecting Chemicals in the Sky Help Save the Planet? (Professor David Keith)
The Best of Radical with Amol Rajan
Why Do People Pretend to Be Working Class? (Your Radical Questions with Sophie Pender)
We Need to Talk About Class: Is It Time to Abolish Private Schools? (Sophie Pender)
What Is The Secret To Happiness? (Your Radical Questions with Lord Richard Layard)
Happiness Rules: Should Wellbeing Dictate Government Policy? (Lord Richard Layard)
Should Phones Be Banned in Pubs? (Your Radical Questions with Oisín Rogers)
Last Call for the Local: Are Old Pubs the Solution to Modern Crises? (Oisín Rogers)
Can Britain Change Its Ways on Housing? (Your Radical Questions with Shiv Malik)
The Great British Housing Crisis: Is a Brand New Mega-City the Answer? (Shiv Malik)
Is Our Idea of Economic Success Completely Broken? (Your Radical Questions with Kate Raworth)
The End of Endless Growth: Should We Put the Brakes on Economic Expansion? (Kate Raworth)
Could Ben & Jerry's Be Created Today? (Your Radical Questions with Ben Cohen)
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)
EHow Close Are We to a Cure for Cancer? (Your Radical Questions with Professor Sir John Bell)
Healthcare, Reinvented: How Dramatic Medical Breakthroughs Are Quietly Changing Your Life (Professor Sir John Bell)
Is Regenerative Farming Getting Greenwashed? (Your Radical Questions with Andy Cato)
The Future of Food: Can Regenerative Farming Save Our Soil? (Andy Cato)
Is Social Media Making Young Women Hate Men? (Your Radical Questions with Dr Jilly Kay)
What Are the Tech Billionaires Really Like? (Your Radical Questions with Reid Hoffman)
The Rise of the Femosphere: Who Are the Women Giving Up on Men? (Dr Jilly Kay)
EThe Jobs Revolution: Is AI Working for You? (Reid Hoffman)
Is AI Coming for Your Job? (Your Radical Questions with Matt Clifford)
Going for Growth: Can We Make Britain Wealthy Again? (Matt Clifford)
How Can More Women Become Business Leaders? (Your Radical Questions with Emma Grede)
Taking Responsibility: Are We Thinking About Success and Ambition All Wrong? (Emma Grede)
Why Are Young People Abandoning the Political Centre? (Your Radical Questions with Adrian Wooldridge)
Reclaiming the Centre: Is the Old Political Order Dead? (Adrian Wooldridge)
Can Technology Rescue Reading? (Your Radical Questions with James Marriott)
The Reading Recession: Are We Making Ourselves Less Intelligent? (James Marriott)
Could All Government Decisions Be Made Through an App? (Your Radical Questions with Hélène Landemore)
Rethinking Democracy: Would Citizens Do a Better Job than Politicians? (Hélène Landemore)
Who Is Responsible For Over-Medicalisation? (Your Radical Questions with Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan)
Over-Diagnosis: Are Too Many People Being Given Medical Labels? (Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan)
Should Former Colonial Powers Pay Reparations? (Your Radical Questions with Simukai Chigudu)
The Legacy of Empire: How to Reckon with the Past (Simukai Chigudu)
Do Polls Influence Public Opinion? (Your Radical Questions with James Kanagasooriam)
Taking Back Control: Why ‘Agency’ Could Be The Next Big Idea In Politics (James Kanagasooriam)
Does Marriage Need Modernising? (Your Radical Questions with Ed Davies)
The Decline of Marriage: Why We Need to Prioritise Family Life (Ed Davies)
How Can Families Limit the Ultra‑Processed Foods Their Kids Eat? (Your Radical Questions with Thomasina Miers)
Health and Hospitality: When Does Food Stop Being Food? (Thomasina Miers)
Is Capitalism Holding Back Social Mobility? (Your Radical Questions with Joe Seddon)
Social Mobility: How to Break the Link Between Background and Opportunity (Joe Seddon)
Can A ‘Repair Not Replace’ Culture Be Revived In Fashion? (Your Radical Questions with Josephine Philips)
Consumer Culture: Why We Need to Buy Less (Josephine Philips)
How Do We Reduce Political Polarisation Online? (Your Radical Questions with Jonathan Haidt)
Social Media Bans: Are We at a Global Turning Point? (Jonathan Haidt)
Will There Be a Revolt Against AI Music? (Your Radical Questions with Panos A. Panay)
The Night Manager: How to Make Great British Drama (Simon Cornwell)
Inside the Music Business: The Grammys President on the Fight to Protect Artists (Panos A. Panay)
What Does It Take to Become a Foster Carer? (Your Radical Questions with Louise Allen)
Children in Care: How to Fix the Fostering Crisis (Louise Allen)
EHow Will The Shift To Green Energy Reshape Global Politics? (Your Radical Questions with Professor Helen Thompson)
Trump v China: How Oil Is Defining Great Power Politics (Professor Helen Thompson)
Are You In a Social Media Echo Chamber? (Your Radical Questions with Louisa Munch)
Knowledge and Nostalgia: Why a University Education Should Be Free (Louisa Munch)
Can Donald Trump Be Compared To Julius Caesar? (Your Radical Questions with Tom Holland)
Radical History: Greek Gods, Roman Emperors and Religion (with Tom Holland from The Rest Is History)
Radical Essay: How Is Technology Changing Our Lives? (A 2025 Review)
What Do You Think About AI Using Your Writing? (Your Radical Questions with Naomi Alderman)
Information Crisis: Why Social Media Bans Aren't The Answer (Naomi Alderman)
Should School Meals Be Plant-Based? (Your Radical Questions with Jamie Oliver)
Jamie Oliver: Obesity and Debt are Killing Britain
EWhat Do We Do About Young Men and Porn? (Your Radical Questions with Jordan Stephens)
EPorn and Masculinity: How to Teach Kids about Sex and Relationships (Jordan Stephens)
EWill Conservation Become More Mainstream? (Your Radical Questions with Chris Packham)
A War on Climate Change: Are Environmental Activists Losing The Fight? (Chris Packham)
How Good Is Vertical Farming? (Your Radical Questions with James Rebanks)
Beyond Ultra-Processed Foods: Can Farmers Fix Our Health and the Planet? (James Rebanks)
Digital Dominance: How to Limit the Power of Big Tech (Sir Nick Clegg)
Irrational Humans: How Our Behaviour Shapes the Economy (Professor Richard Thaler)
A New Generational Divide: Living with(out) the Bank of Mum and Dad (Dr Eliza Filby)
ChatGPT and Google: The Tech Billionaire Taking On AI Companies (Matthew Prince)
EA Fatal Punch: Why I Met the Parents of the Man I Killed (Jacob Dunne)
EClimate Migration: Confronting the Reality of Global Warming (Gaia Vince)
British Identity: How Schools Can Improve Multiculturalism (Katharine Birbalsingh)
The Weaponisation of Science: How to Avoid a Global Catastrophe (Professor Carlo Rovelli)
ELife After Vogue: Why I Want To Reinvent Fashion Magazines (Edward Enninful)
Identity Politics: Why the Left Needs to Stop Fighting Culture Wars (Ash Sarkar)
EArtificial Intelligence: An AI Boss Warns About the Risks (Dario Amodei)
Jordan Schwarzenberger Part Two: A Radical Religious Conversion
YouTube, Insta and TikTok: A Guide to Growing Your Social Media Following (Jordan Schwarzenberger - part one)
Homelessness and the Housing Crisis: How to End Rough Sleeping (Sabrina Cohen-Hatton)
Fake News: How We Can Save Ourselves From Disinformation (Eliot Higgins)
Books v Screens: Why Every School Needs a Library (Katherine Rundell)
Britain’s New Right: Could Reform Replace the Tories? (Dr James Orr)
Robert Macfarlane: Rivers Are Dying, So Give Them Rights
Grey Britain: Do We Need to Have More Children? (Dr Paul Morland)
From Trump to Corbyn: How Social Media Shapes Politics (Billy Bragg)
Law and Order: How to Fix Britain's Courts (Lady Hale)
Knife Crime: Can Education Save Lives? (Steve Chalke)
The Future of War: How Should the West Respond to its Enemies? (Sir Niall Ferguson)
AI and Sexism: The Fight Against Misogyny Online (Laura Bates)
Introducing... Radical with Amol Rajan
Populism, conspiracies and... Doctor Who
Is your mobile phone the best or worst friend you’ve ever had?
Gary Lineker, the BBC and celebrity influencers
Eurovision: Europe’s biggest election
Joe Biden, VE Day and the politics of nostalgia
North Korea fights for Russia
Is Putin playing Trump on Ukraine?
Is Trump on a collision course with China?
Trump’s Tariff U-turn
Guilty! Marine Le Pen and the future of Europe’s populist right
JD Vance: does Trump’s VP really hate Europe?
Bonus: Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty on Adolescence and male rage
EAdolescence and the Crisis of Masculinity
Is Starmer finally getting to grips with being PM?
What's different about Trump 2.0?
What will Starmer’s defence spending buy from Trump?
Ukraine or Russia: Whose Side Is Trump On?
What’s up with Gen Z?
How To Deal With Trump (and the EU)
Interview: Bill Gates talks to Amol
Rachel Reeves in ‘Bring It On Mode’
Trump and the Era of the Deal
Bonus Q&A: Trump returns to the White House
Going for Growth: Rachel Reeves v the markets
Bonus: The BBC’s Russia Editor on Life in Moscow
Musk, Zuckerberg and Free Speech
2025 Lookahead
Bonus: Dame Laura Kenny guest edits Today
Bonus: Baroness Floella Benjamin guest edits Today
Bonus: Sir Sajid Javid guest edits Today
Bonus: Dwayne Fields guest edits Today
Bonus: Frank Cottrell-Boyce edits Today
News Review of the Year 2024
Interview: Kemi Badenoch talks to Amol
Political Turmoil in France and Germany
Nigel Farage, Reform and the Future of British Politics
Keir Starmer's Reset
Esther Rantzen on the Assisted Dying Debate
Interview: Frank Cottrell-Boyce talks about being a Today Christmas guest editor
Blair and Brown pay tribute to John Prescott
Can you smash the gangs to stop the boats?
Special report: Europe’s frontline against illegal migration
Rural Revolt
EUS Election Q&A
Trump 2.0
Analysis: A Budget for the history books
Interview: Rachel Reeves talks to Nick about the Budget
Bonus Q&A: Swearing, spin and social media
EInterview: Kate Bush talks to Today
Musk goes all-in for Trump
Michael Gove on right-wing politics, the Tories and Trump v Harris
Is Labour working?
Iran, Israel and the Middle East crisis explained
Ruby Wax talks to Amol
EKeir Starmer’s interview - the analysis
The Keir Starmer interview
Will the Lebanon blasts lead to an escalation in the Middle East?
Bonus Q&A – BBC jargon, who makes Today and covering the US election
Doom, Gloom and the NHS
Will the victims of Grenfell ever get justice?
Starmer’s ‘black holes’: What will fill them?
Summer special – celebrity Q&A
Summer special: Is journalism in crisis?
Social media and the riots: Musk, misinformation and moral responsibility.
Bonus episode - Frank Skinner opens up to Amol
How do we turbo-charge Britain’s economy?
Bonus Q&A: Young MPs, podcast impartiality and the state of political journalism
Mary Beard on power, succession and rebellions
Biden quits - but can Kamala beat Trump?
Starmer, Trump, and the New World Order
Can political rhetoric kill?
New MPs, new government... new politics?
Reeves goes for growth in the Treasury, Starmer takes to the world stage
Post-election pod: How will Labour govern? And who will take charge of the Tories?
Election Night Fever and the Challenge across the Channel
Bonus Q&A – 'None of the Above' on ballot papers & election night cliché bingo.
It’s election week!
Should we trust the polls?
Newscast x The Today Podcast x When It Hits The Fan
Sunak’s betting crisis, Starmer’s gender row and Farage takes on the Mail
Bonus Q&A – Why do politicians use big numbers and why do we vote with pencils?
Growing pains: how to grow an economy and get young people voting
Farage’s non-manifesto, should Corbyn have stood for the Greens and where’s Boris Johnson?
Extra! The Today Podcast Live! Bonus episode ft. James May
The Today Podcast: Live!
Manifesto week, political earthquakes and interview tactics
Sunak squares up, Farage steps in
Sunak and Starmer go head to head
Starmer, Socialism & Diane Abbott - whose side is he really on?
Rishi Sunak Talks to Today
Election announcement special
What does Keir Starmer really believe in?
Hung parliament or thumping majority? And why do we all feel so skint?
Cutting through the spin – elections bonus ep
AI and humanity’s future: chilling or thrilling?
Could an MP present the Today programme?
Q&A – lightweight politicians, interviews that made you blush… Ft Esther Rantzen & Stephen Fry
Smoke-free generation: Is this Sunak’s legacy?
Where’s the money coming from?
Tragedy in Gaza: Will this week’s events change anything?
Why should you have to pay for the BBC?
Alastair Campbell on the changing face of Starmer’s Labour
Revolt on the right! Reform, Rishi and (Red) Wall-to-Wall Chaos
Why the Home Office is ‘dysfunctional’ - Sacked immigration chief speaks out
Hunt’s Budget - will it make a difference?
By-election bonus: Rochdale, Galloway, Gaza… what now?
Mob rule: Where should we draw the line on protest?
Disgrace! Why are MPs playing politics with the Middle East?
How did the culture wars take over? Ft Jon Ronson
Why we need to talk about cancer ft. Stephen Fry
Does nanny (state) know best?
How do we deal with President Trump (again)?
Does Starmer need Scotland to win the general election?
Is democracy dying?
The Moments In History Amol and Nick Wish They’d Covered
News Review of the Year
Esther Rantzen on a Christmas she did not expect to see
Is Putin in danger of winning in Ukraine?
Sunk! Is Sunak’s Tory Party over?
Why Generation Rent are so angry
Are these tax cuts for real?
James May: On Top Gear, tea and driverless cars
Revolting! How much trouble are Sunak and Starmer in?
David Cameron In, Suella Braverman Out
The Politics of Protest: Suella Braverman vs the police
Covidshambles: The human cost of chaos in No 10
Your Questions Answered
What hope for peace?
What Is This War Really About?
Horror in Israel and Gaza - What next?
I cried after presenting my first Today programme
Can Rishi Sunak win it for the Tories?
Introducing The Today Podcast