Amol Rajan
Presenter, Today, University Challenge, and Amol Rajan Interviews, BBC
Amol Rajan was previously the BBC’s first media editor, reporting on global technology and media companies. He has presented several documentaries on television (How To Break Into the Elite; How To Crack the Class Ceiling; The Princes and the Press) and on radio (The Imperial Inversion of Cricket, Archive on 4: Rivers of Blood; The Decline of the West).
He is also host of Rethink, a series of programmes and podcasts on the world after Covid-19. Before joining the BBC, he was appointed editor of The Independent aged 29, the youngest editor of a broadsheet in Britain, and the first from an ethnic minority for over a century. He is also the author of Twirlymen: the Unlikely History of Cricket’s Greatest Spin Bowlers.
