Amol Rajan

London

#AmolRajanInterviews; #UniversityChallenge; @BBCR4Today. Born Calcutta; raised Tooting. Speaker enquiries: [email protected]

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Amol Rajan: 'My new BBC series helped me confront grief over my father's death I'd been avoiding'

1 week ago | radiotimes.com | Amol Rajan

At 9.13am on 17 January 2022, I was in a cab in London, on my way to meet Sir Ian McKellen for my BBC series Amol Rajan Interviews. I received a call from a withheld number – never a good sign when a loved one is in hospital. “Please come immediately,” said the nurse. “He’s not responding.”That was the day everything changed. In retrospect, aged 38, I was quite an old child that morning. But I’ve been in a funk ever since. Grief hit me extremely hard.
what I learnt holidaying with four kids under eight

Mar 29, 2025 | thetimes.com | Amol Rajan
Tony Blair on effective leadership, AI and the Labour Party

Sep 3, 2024 | yahoo.com | Amol Rajan

Sir Tony Blair has been out of power in government for 17 years. Yet he thinks he's learned almost as much after leaving Number 10 as when he was in it. One of the key insights from the revolutions in behavioural economics and neuroscience of the past 20 years is the degree to which our biases and experience frame our understanding of fresh information. Even when we don't want to, we make sense of the new by reference to the old.
7 lessons from my first series of University Challenge

Apr 6, 2024 | msn.com | Amol Rajan

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Amol Rajan: 7 lessons from my first series of University Challenge

Apr 6, 2024 | bbc.co.uk | Amol Rajan

I was going to use the words "what I've learned" at the top of this article, and in fact I just did. But given I bark out around 3,000 questions per series, and that I cannot in good conscience claim to have known all the answers before I read them out, I've learned so much that those words seem insufficient. So let's just call these salutary lessons from my first series hosting Britain's longest-running TV quiz, University Challenge.
'We need jungle' - Amol Rajan on how a University Challenge question spawned a remix craze

Jan 12, 2024 | bbc.co.uk | Amol Rajan

In idle moments this week, of which there have been fewer than usual, I have wondered about the precise circumstances that led Nathan Filer, a best-selling writer based at Bath Spa University, to post on Twitter/X about University Challenge. The curious thing, given what followed, was that he was playing catch-up. Monday night's edition of the quiz on BBC Two featured Lincoln College, Oxford, against Imperial.
Phillip Schofield's hands were shaking through interview

Jun 1, 2023 | bbc.com | Amol Rajan

Image caption, Phillip Schofield told the BBC's Amol Rajan he had no involvement with his former colleague leaving This MorningPerhaps few people in Britain understand the power of televised testimony like Phillip Schofield. For more than 40 years he has solicited it; for the past 20, on This Morning, he has specialised in it. He also knows, given his public profile, about the enduring power of tabloids.