Amol Rajan
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3,997 appearances
23 recordings
6 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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These are conversations about the deep global trends changing our world and offering you some radical ideas for the future with some pretty radical thinkers.
And we've got one this week.
He is Richard Layard, Professor Layard, Lord Layard, a Labour peer, an economist.
And by the way, I'm really excited about this.
He is our first 92 year old guest on this podcast.
He's someone who spent
decades and particularly the last couple of decades arguing that we need to fundamentally shift the focus of public conversation and yes public policy those things that the government the state is responsible for from economic issues like wealth like welfare like gdp
to something else, which is well-being and human happiness.
In fact, in 2004, he wrote a book called Happiness Lessons from a New Science, which was translated into lots and lots of languages.
And it argued that you can now measure human happiness.
And the impact of Richard's work has been deeply felt all around the world, but particularly here in the UK.
If you're someone who has benefited from the NHS Talking Therapies Programme,
That was his idea.
If you're someone who cares for the government measuring well-being, that was one of his ideas.
If you're someone who thinks that schools should do much, much, much more on looking after the welfare of their pupils, well, he's been a big advocate there as well.
This is riveting.
It's radical.
It's a kind of fun and uplifting conversation with someone who basically thinks we're getting an awful lot wrong.
And I think you're going to end up not only with a bunch of radical ideas, but frankly, feeling rather happy about it too.
Here is Richard Layard.
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