{"podcast":{"title":"Radical with Amol Rajan","slug":"radical-with-amol-rajan-6625076","podcast_index_feed_id":6625076,"rss_url":"https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p0gg4k6r.rss","website_url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gg4k6r","image_url":"http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0lgrqcb.jpg","author":"BBC","episode_count":226,"summary":"Conversations about tomorrow, from Today. Every week Amol Rajan talks to radicals, pioneers and innovators from all over the world. From populism and climate change, to economics and AI... How can their radical ideas help you win the future? Amol Rajan is a presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4. He is also the host of University Challenge on BBC One. Before that, Amol was media editor at the BBC and editor at The Independent. Episodes of Radical with Amol Rajan will be published on Thursdays on BBC Sounds. It will also be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Thursdays at 11pm. Visualised versions of the podcast will also be available on BBC iPlayer and YouTube. Radical with Amol Rajan is a Today Podcast.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-13T10:20:57.578644+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/radical-with-amol-rajan-6625076"},"episode":{"title":"Can Technology Rescue Reading? (Your Radical Questions with James Marriott)","slug":"can-technology-rescue-reading-your-radical-questions-with-james-marriott","published_at":"2026-04-13T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/radical-with-amol-rajan-6625076/can-technology-rescue-reading-your-radical-questions-with-james-marriott","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/radical-with-amol-rajan-6625076","url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0n8ynwz","audio_url":"http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss/proto/http/vpid/p0ncj03n.mp3","summary":"Amol runs through your questions with the Times columnist James Marriott. They take on whether we could use technology to encourage people to do more reading, pessimism on social media, and whether we risk changing our sense of what it means to be human when we lose our connection to imaginary worlds in books. James’s Radio 4 series ‘How Reading Made Us’ is available now on BBC Sounds. GET IN TOUCH * WhatsApp: 0330 123 9480 * Email: radical@bbc.co.uk Episodes of Radical with Amol Rajan are released every Thursday. Amol presents the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 and hosts University Challenge on BBC One. Before that, Amol was media editor at the BBC and editor of The Independent newspaper. Radical with Amol Rajan is a Today Podcast. It was made by Lewis Vickers and Rufus Gray with Anna Budd, Cordelia Hemming and Oscar Pearson. Digital production was by Gabriel Purcell-Davies. Technical production was by Johnny Hall. The editor is Sam Bonham.","meta_description":"Amol runs through your questions with the Times columnist James Marriott. They take on whether we could use technology to encourage people to do more read…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1306,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/radical-with-amol-rajan-6625076/episodes/can-technology-rescue-reading-your-radical-questions-with-james-marriott/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/radical-with-amol-rajan-6625076/can-technology-rescue-reading-your-radical-questions-with-james-marriott.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}