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 · Why Do People Pretend to Be Working Class? (Your Radical Questions with Sophie Pender) · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

If you want to hear us talk about those issues as well as bigger things around class and family and privilege and networking and education and Sophie's amazing story, please do go back and listen to Thursday's episode. voice-verified

But now for the last time from me, voice-verified

I would like to say to my guest, Sophie, are you ready for some radical listeners? voice-verified

Well, our first question, this is special because this comes from someone that I didn't even know he was going to send in this voice note, but that's how joined up we are. voice-verified

Someone, a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, very influential academic who I mentioned on Thursday's episode. voice-verified

He is the author of two books, co-author of a book called The Class Ceiling and co-author of a book called Born to Rule. voice-verified

He's a professor at the London School of Economics who I featured in my documentaries earlier. voice-verified

It's Sam Friedman, whose book Born to Rule does some data analysis tracking the British upper class from the 1890s to the present day. voice-verified

And this is Sam Friedman. voice-verified

Sam is such a... He's got such a lecturer voice. voice-verified

He is such a smart guy. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

And his two books, I mean... voice-verified

You know, I recommend them because my name's on at least one of them. voice-verified

I think maybe the back of the other. voice-verified

It's a really interesting thing about how people project themselves. voice-verified

Let's just pick up the end of that. voice-verified

This idea that basically there's a tendency among many in the UK, whether conscious or not, to deflect or downplay their privilege to cast their own trajectory in a more meritocratic light. voice-verified

Have you seen that? voice-verified

But it's changed historically. voice-verified

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