Amol Rajan is the Creator behind the YouTube channel, The Amol Rajan Connection, and the members club amolrajanconnection.com. He is also host of University Challenge, the longest-running quiz show on British television.

For 5 years he was a host of Radio 4's Today, the most influential news programme in the UK. Prior to this, he was for 6 years the BBC's Media Editor, leading the Corporation's coverage of global technology and media, reporting extensively from around the world, including Silicon Valley. He hosted the prime-time BBC show Amol Rajan Interviews, the popular podcast RADICAL, and several other Radio 4 shows including Rethink and The Media Show. He has made many prime-time documentaries, including Amol Goes to the Ganges, the 2-part The Princes and the Press and two shows on social mobility: How to Crack the Class Ceiling, and How to Break Into the Elite.

He was appointed Editor of The Independent at 29, the youngest broadsheet Editor in Fleet Street history and the first from an ethnic minority. He co-founded KEY Sessions, a charity for inner city kids in London, and is the author of Twirlymen: the Unlikely History of Cricket's Greatest Spin Bowlers. He was born in Calcutta, raised in Tooting, south London, and studied English at Downing College, Cambridge. In October, he will be appearing the latest series of Celebrity Traitors.

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