Saturday 4th July 10:30am
Desert Island Discs with Amol Rajan interviewed by Peter Chadlington
St.Nicholas Church, Chadlington, OX7 3LY. £20 / under 21's £5.
We are delighted to announce our special guest castaway - Amol Rajan will be interviewed by our Founding Patron, Peter Chadlington.
Amol Rajan has presented TODAY for just under 5 years, University Challenge for 3 years, and RADICAL for 6 months. Prior to TODAY, he was the BBC's first Media Editor, leading the Corporation's coverage of global technology and Media, during which time he broke many exclusive stories and was a prolific contributor to bulletins and the BBC News website. For Radio 4, he has also presented several documentaries: The Decline of the West; Archive on 4 - 50 Years On: Rivers of Blood; and The Imperial Inversion of Cricket; as well as programmes Start the Week, PM, Any Answers, several series of Rethink and, for 4 years, The Media Show. He presented the podcasts Harry, Meghan and the Media; and (with Nick Robinson) The Today Podcast. For Radio 2, he has presented the Breakfast, Lunchtime and Drivetime shows. On BBC 1, he has been a regular presenter of The One Show, and in 2025 presented the documentary Amol Rajan Goes to the Ganges. For BBC 2, he presented How To Break Into the Elite, the 2-part How To Crack the Class Ceiling; the 2-part The Princes and the Press; and the prime-time Amol Rajan Interviews, in which he has interviewed global icons including Bill Gates, Greta Thunberg and Billie Jean King to national treasures (Ian McKellen, Sheila Hancock) and former Prime Ministers (Tony Blair, John Major).
Before joining the BBC, he was Editor of The Independent. When appointed at the age of 29 in 2013, he was the youngest ever Editor of a 'broadsheet' title in Fleet Street, and the first from an ethnic minority. And before that, he was the mic boy on Channel 5's The Wright Stuff. He co-founded a charity, now in abeyance, for inner-city London teenagers called KEY Sessions, and his first book - Twirlymen: the Unlikely History of Cricket's Greatest Spin Bowlers was published in 2011. Amol was born in Calcutta, and grew up in Toting, south London. He attended Graveney School and Downing College, Cambridge, where he read English and was Editor of Varsity, the student newspaper.
We would like to thank the PPL PRS for supporting this event.
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