Amol Rajan
speaker
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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You know, do you feel it came out?
And, you know, my dad didn't say, you know what, son, I'm proud of you.
And it was absolutely justified.
But he kind of intimated that.
And I'm so glad I did that walk.
And there are certain places I wanted to go with him.
You know, I've got a son called Winston.
Me and my dad were both very interested in Churchill.
I really wanted to go to the house in Kent where Churchill spent most of his life with him.
I didn't get to do that.
And so if there are things that you want to do with your parents and you're lucky enough to have your parents around, you've got to do those things.
They are top priority because, you know, it's the height of arrogance to think your parents will be around forever.
But yeah, I've been in a complete funk situation.
really for three years and people see don't they they see they see kind of they see you on university challenge they hear you on the today program or on a podcast so they see he's a pretty upbeat guy and what they don't see is that internally you're trying to write a new story you're trying to kind of tell yourself that this is why you do it and you're trying to tell yourself what there is to live for in the absence of your dad you know if people listening to this are going through grief i'd say
There was a thing that Johnny Bairstow, the England cricketer, right?
I get all my moral tips from cricket players.
Johnny Bairstow is an absolute legend, amazing guy.
His dad died by suicide when Johnny Bairstow was eight.
He talked about how when you're going through grief, he said, you just got to keep putting one foot in front of the other.
Just keep buggering on, as Churchill said.
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