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

And one of his arguments about happiness and about suffering is there's no good reason for our concern and our compassion to stop at the species line. matched

You know, why should we matched

feel compassion and concern for the happiness and well-being and suffering of our fellow homo sapiens or humans and not extend that to at least other mammals. matched

What do you say, Richard, to Joel's question? matched

Why are we not stopping unnecessarily harming animals for food? matched

Right. matched

Is there any good reason to stop our compassion for animals? matched

No. matched

But you think there's an important distinction between how they live and how they die. matched

Joel, thank you very much indeed. matched

Here's a question from Charlie Beaumont, who has a question about a word that I don't think we hear very often in the public domain these days. matched

But given that we're living in a time of multiple wars in the Middle East, in Ukraine, all around the world, in fact, it's surprising we don't hear it more. matched

This is a question about pacifism. matched

And Charlie says, as humans we all have the same needs and we all have only one life, yet during that life we have a responsibility to future generations and to their likely quality of life. matched

Pacifism tends to be seen as naive, but surely it is a route to a much greater state of happiness than armed conflict will ever achieve. matched

But pacifism as a principle, you don't subscribe to because... I think in the Second World War, I would have fought fascism. matched

And what about your mum? matched

Did she contribute to the war effort beyond? matched

Wow. matched

Can I ask you finally, when you reflect on your life going back to 1934, how you feel Britain is doing at the moment compared to how it was when you were growing up? matched

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