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 · The Best of Radical with Amol Rajan · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

So he's a kind of cross party kind of guy. matched

We're running through some of my favourite episodes and our most intriguing and thought provoking guests. matched

On to, well, this was definitely one of my favourites. matched

It was brilliant. matched

And God, the response that we got. matched

to this podcast episode was nuts. matched

It was Eliza Philby, Dr. Eliza Philby, the historian and author of a book which I really recommend called Inheritocracy. matched

She gave us one of the clearest diagnoses of why so many people in this country feel the future has moved out of reach. matched

And I really, really love this episode because frankly, Eliza, a bit like me, is someone who is much more interested in trends and underlying forces than events. matched

And she's thought hard about them. matched

And her argument was pretty radical, I think, because it challenged the old promise that hard work and education are enough. matched

She basically said that young people in this country, by which she meant millennials or younger people, Generation Z, or Gen Z as we call them, have the odds stacked against them. matched

The decisive advantage is now not what you earn or learn... matched

but what your family owns. matched

That's the idea behind Inheritocracy. matched

And she said that if you look at the way that pay, what you earn by going to work, property, your chances of owning a home, pensions, your chance of actually having a decent pension when you retire. matched

If you look at how those three Ps have changed in the past 40 years, we have really stacked the odds against young people. matched

And this episode was just fantastic, really, at laying out all the ways in which, frankly, an older generation, in her view, had an matched

easier chance to have a great quality of life than the younger people who they call family. matched

I loved your book. matched

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