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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And suddenly all of the crap for five weeks, the infections he was getting, the tubes, the pipes, his kidneys weren't working.

And it was all too much.

He had a catastrophic heart attack.

And if I'm honest, that was three years ago last week.

It's still really, really raw, you know.

And last Friday, I went to the place in Chiswick in West London where I first came in.

I was born in India and lived in Chiswick from the age of three to seven.

I went with my mum and we looked at his house and we talked about all the memories of being there.

And it was incredible.

And then I went back to Tooting, which is where my parents' house is in South London.

And there's just a picture of my dad and he's smiling.

And there's something about that, which I just, it kills me, man.

it kills me.

And, you know, my dad was, you know, I think we'd nowadays probably medicalize it and say he was depressed for years.

He was a downbeat guy, an introvert, but it's something about when someone is, um, your dad and they're a downbeat person and you have

kind of private access to them smiling.

There's something about when they smile at you.

It's just so overwhelming.

And yeah, I went to pieces.

And if I'm honest, you know, it's a weird thing to know how blessed and how lucky you are.

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