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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Radical · Last Call for the Local: Are Old Pubs the Solution to Modern Crises? (Oisín Rogers) · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah, probably 15, 18 years ago, I was working in newspapers. matched

And someone said to me, I really want you to come and meet this couple who've taken over a pub in South London. matched

It was in Camberwell. matched

And they basically, a friend of mine who was kind of the bridge, was basically trying to get a bit of coverage for the challenges back then that people who take over pubs from pub companies face. matched

But the basic complaint back then was that a huge number of Britain's pubs are run by pub companies. matched

And what they do is they get you in. matched

I'm glad you're smiling because I don't know enough about this. matched

They get you in by kind of offering pretty low prices, entice you in because maybe Sheila and Mark and other people have got this great dream of running a pub. matched

And then they operate something called the tie, which is that because of the relationship commercially you have with the pub company, they control the price of beer and they control your rent and they jack it up and eventually you go out of business really quite quickly. matched

How much of a problem are pub companies in this country in terms of the future of pubs? matched

And is the tie, what is the tie and is it unfair? matched

What is the tie? matched

What am I even talking about? matched

Sheila and Mark are thinking, great, let's do this. matched

So Sheila and Mark look at this pub in this place in Surrey where they think this is really exciting. matched

We could do this. matched

They look at the numbers. matched

Mark's going to work even harder and hope to get a promotion. matched

They can make it work. matched

You know, they get it for cheaper than they might otherwise have done. matched

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