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

But what they need to think about is that the pub company, not Sheila and Mark, but the pub company will decide how much they pay for beer. matched

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And therefore, Sheila and Mark in the first few years are not going to be making any money on their beer. matched

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Is that if Sheila and Mark put all the costs in and they put their kind of price in, they'll end up finding that it's very, very hard to make money, as lots of people are clearly finding. matched

Do pub companies get a bad rep from... matched

for the tie and for kind of selling people false promises? matched

Because they would say they enter into a commercial agreement with people. matched

They tell people that they want them to be flourishing. matched

And what's good for the landlords and the tenants is good for the pub companies, right? matched

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I've had some of the happiest times in my life in pubs. matched

I've met people in pubs. matched

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deepen the connections with other people that make life worth living in pubs. matched

But I also think there's a very particular current problem, which is actually one of the main things we've talked about on this podcast in previous episodes, which is that we matched

We are living through, all of the evidence suggests, something like a crisis of social capital. matched

Something like a kind of, you know, the institutions, not of central government or of the family, but the intermediate institutions, the social institutions, the neighborhood, the little platoons, they're disappearing. matched

And those places and spaces where people come together from sports clubs to trade unions, to voluntary associations, to the church and mosque and synagogue, temple, matched

where people come together and they just relate to people in their neighborhoods. matched

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