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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And it suggests to me that something quite dramatic has happened quite recently, which has pushed those numbers up.
What do you think that is?
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Thank you.
And now back to Richard Layard.
Let me just put a principled objection to your position, if I may, which is that if you focus more, not ignoring knowledge and all the rest of it, and you're one of the most highly educated men one could come across, and you've been a public intellectual for seven decades.
If you focus more on well-being and less on, if you like, crunchy subjects, knowledge,
Is there a danger that people just know less, are less equipped?
How would you make for happier children?
How would you rethink, what would you do that was radical in schools to make happier children?
What does that actually involve?
But it's interesting you say that because most people would have an assumption that
We're spending more on health than ever.
Maybe we're spending it on different things.
Maybe we're spending it on beds or cancer treatment or dementia.
But most people would say we are spending a huge amount on health already.
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