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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Radical · What Is The Secret To Happiness? (Your Radical Questions with Lord Richard Layard) · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

And we also expend a huge amount on the NHS and on health in this country, an amount that's growing because we've got an ageing population. matched

So is it really fair to say that the NHS treats people as beggars? matched

Fatma says in the secondary question, she wonders whether the economic case for happiness still isn't compelling enough to win budget battles. matched

She says, overall, are you concerned that institutionalizing well-being carries its own risk that measuring and professionalizing happiness might quietly undermine the very thing that produces it? matched

Given you raise money, I got a couple of questions on Instagram, which I'm going to put to you. matched

People got in touch and they had these two questions, which are both similar. matched

Anna said to me, why do we confuse, this question for you, why do we confuse the pursuit of wealth with the journey to happiness? matched

Can we reframe? matched

And Catherine said, I agree with him. matched

I agree with Richard. matched

Surely you need a certain amount of wealth to do the things that make you happy. matched

Let's just focus on Anna's question for a second. matched

Why do we confuse the pursuit of wealth with a journey to happiness? matched

Got a question from Melanie. matched

Melanie says, what is the most important day-to-day achievement? matched

Is it tags of objective career success or is it finding ways to be happy, content and fulfilled? matched

It's also just the case, isn't it, and this goes back to the foundation principles of what you argue for, matched

that when we die, when we have funerals, people don't talk about the CV. matched

They don't talk about the career or how old he was when he became a professor or such and such. matched

They talk about your contribution. matched

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