Amol Rajan is host of Amol Rajan Interviews and University Challenge on BBC Two, and the Today programme on Radio 4.
His prime-time interview series has featured Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Greta Thunberg, Sharon White, Billie Jean King, Novak Djokovic, Brian Cox, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Woodward & Bernstein, Piers Morgan, Sheila Hancock, Novak Djokovic, Nile Rodgers and Sundar Pichai. He was appointed Editor of The Independent aged 29; wrote a history of spin bowling called Twirlymen; and set up a charity for inner-city kids called KEY Sessions.
His TV documentary series includes How To Break Into the Elite, How To Crack the Class Ceiling, and The Princes and the Press; and his Radio documentaries include The Decline of the West, The Imperial Inversion of Cricket and 50 Years On: Rivers of Blood. He is co-host of The Today Podcast from the Today programme, was a restaurant critic and Masterchef judge for many years, and has also hosted The One Show on BBC One, the Breakfast and lunchtime slots on Radio 2, and Rethink and Start the Week on Radio 4.