Amol Rajan

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3,997 appearances 23 recordings 6 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 16 Jul

Amol Rajan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 23 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 12.

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Radical · The Best of Radical with Amol Rajan · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

She is Catherine Birbal Singh. matched

She told me that children, especially those from poorer backgrounds, need knowledge, discipline, personal responsibility, tough love and a shared culture, not lower expectations. matched

I've chosen this one as a highlight because Catherine Birbal Singh matched

who is, she would describe herself as traditional or small C conservative. matched

She is pretty bracing, pretty vigorously anti-woke. matched

She's very clear that she's not a big fan of the diversity agenda, as she would call it. matched

She believes in setting very, very high standards for kids from poorer backgrounds. matched

And whether you agree with her or not, something that I think is admirable about Catherine Burble-Sings, not only that she is enacting what she believes in, but she wants the best for matched

for people who start with the least. matched

And that's why her episode of Radical is definitely worth your time, whether you agree with her or not. matched

So patriotism is a big part of what you try and do. matched

But is your intellectual and practical critique of multiculturalism that by an excessive focus on differences, we undermine what we have in common, A, and B... matched

which is, I guess, the real criticism of identity politics more broadly, by an excessive focus on differences, you ask people, you invite people into our public square and public domain to define themselves by their membership of minorities and therefore to think about themselves in terms of their rights rather than duties and to celebrate a kind of feeling of persecution or victimhood. matched

The two aren't necessarily incompatible. matched

So prize and knowledge is kind of one of the things to which my own life, in fact, my dad's life was dedicated. matched

And I get it theoretically. matched

I present a quiz, which is all about prize and knowledge. matched

It's one of the many reasons I love doing that job. matched

Roger Scruton, he wrote a book called Culture Counts, chapter three, I think it's called Teaching Knowledge. matched

And it opens with the sentence, it is one of the most deeply rooted superstitions of our age that the purpose of education is to benefit those who receive it. matched

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