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

They talk about your relationships with other people. matched

They talk about, if you like, not your resume or your CV virtues, but your moral virtues. matched

And perhaps maybe in our public life and in our public domain, we think more because it's salient about those sort of objective measures of wealth and success and talk a little bit less perhaps about our moral successes, our kind of immaterial successes. matched

Would people understand what you mean if you use the word mindfulness or meditation? matched

Do you meditate? matched

Well, Bhutan rather notoriously has a happiness index, doesn't it, Bhutan? matched

As a country, it elevates, no pun intended, it elevates happiness to a much higher role and principle and esteem than perhaps you do here. matched

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Would you recommend to people listening, they're not going to get your morning ritual, but would you recommend to listeners of this great podcast that every morning they just took a moment to, what, to recenter themselves and to connect themselves to what's best in them? matched

Melanie, thank you very much indeed for your question. matched

The next is from Joel. matched

Joel says, Richard, why in 2026, oh, this is interesting. matched

Why in 2026 are we not listening to the latest scientific insight and stopping unnecessarily harming animals for food? matched

I know this would be inherently a bit of a personal question involving our life choices. matched

However, surely we must practice what we preach. matched

Talk about liberal, compassionate, tolerance, happiness, and health. matched

Actually act according to it, no? matched

I think this is interesting partly because in the main episode, which people may have heard, which came out on Thursday, you mentioned an Australian utilitarian called Peter Singer. matched

who decades ago now, more than 50 years ago, wrote a book called Animal Liberation. matched

And he's a key figure in the global vegan movement. matched

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