The Amol Rajan Connection explores the major forces shaping the modern world, from AI and smartphones to climate change, aging populations, and economic crisis. Host Amol Rajan, former editor of The Independent and a BBC presenter, talks with influential thinkers and leaders to make sense of rapid change. The show aims to help listeners understand deep trends rather than fleeting news and feel more confident navigating the future. It offers a welcoming space for conversations about how the world is changing.
Episodes
Q&A with Ian Hogarth: Is it too late for the UK to control AI?
Can we make AI care about humans? How could AI wipe us out? And what will the future look like? Your questions answered by Ian Hogarth - the co-founder and chair of the UK’s AI Security Institute and a co-founder and partner at the investment group Plural - on the Amol Rajan Connection.
Chapters:
00:00 Your questions answered: AI security and the future
01:24 How could AI wipe out
Episode 4 - Ian Hogarth: How Powerful Could Artificial Intelligence Become?
AI, robotics, quantum computing and nuclear fusion are revolutionary technologies changing our lives. But are they changing them for the better? Are we too late to control AI? How do we get the best out of AI? The Amol Rajan Connection explores the risks and benefits with Ian Hogarth - the co-founder and chair of the UK’s AI Security Institute and a co-founder and partner at the investment g
Q&A with Daisy Christodoulou: How to make learning work for our kids
Fixing the literacy crisis; Using AI in education; dealing with difficult teachers. Educationalist Daisy Christodoulou answers your questions on the Amol Rajan Connection.
Chapters
00:00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:15:00 How do we encourage kids to enjoy reading?
00:04:30:00 Helping the quiet children
00:07:00:00 A middle ground between the 3 Rs and children choosing.
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Episode 3 - Daisy Christodoulou: The risk is a Stupidogenic Society
Dubbed Britain’s brightest student on University Challenge, Daisy Christodoulou is now one of the UK’s biggest brains in education. If you’re a parent, a teacher or a pupil, what Daisy has to say on the Amol Rajan Connection is urgent and matters, if we are to navigate the future together. And she’s not afraid to challenge current policies on teaching across the UK.
Chapters:
00:00:00 Daisy Ch
Q&A Delia Smith: Never a duff Delia
The queen of cookery reveals the secret to perfect roast potatoes and the key to cooking moist meat. Delia Smith, who has sold over 21 million books and taught a nation how to cook, answers questions on the Amol Rajan Connection.
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Episode 2 - Delia Smith: Ingredients for life
Delia Smith has been one the most famous women in Britain for the past 50 years, selling over 20 million books and teaching a nation to cook.
This interview was recorded just a few days after the death of her late husband Michael. She talks about adapting to life without him - her career - and her new book, ‘US: Nine ingredients to change our world’, trying to connect and unite communities.
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Q&A with Gareth Southgate: Egos, young athletes and mental health
Sir Gareth Southgate takes questions on the Amol Rajan Connection: Including from the former BBC boss, Tim Davie, about dealing with huge characters and egos. Follow-up episode with a giant of English football.
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Episode 1 - Gareth Southgate: Lessons in Life, Leadership & Football
A giant of English football, Southgate is on top form and more candid than ever in this unmissable conversation with Amol Rajan. He talks about what he’s learned from failure; why he stopped enjoying football; how the game is letting fans down; whether he would return; and why he now spends so much time thinking about the crisis of meaning afflicting so many men. How can we build confident, kind,
Welcome to The Amol Rajan Connection
If life feels like it's happening TO you, not FOR you, then The Amol Rajan Connection is here to help. This show will slow the world down, explain the mighty forces shaping our era - and help you Win the Future.
We're living through one of history's hinge moments. An old order is crumbling and a new one struggling to be born. AI, smartphones, global heating; ageing population; economic
