Amol Rajan years a news reporter, sports correspondent, columnist, comment editor, and editor of Independent Voices. He has also written a Monday column for the "London Evening Standard", restaurant criticism for "The Independent on Sunday", and has contributed to "The Salisbury Review". The latter publication, according to Rajan, "still publishes writing on politics, history and culture that is among the finest produced in English today. It is frequently offensive, and I cannot say I often agree with its editorial position, but that is all the more reason to read it." In 2013, aged 29, Rajan became the first non-white editor of a
Amol Rajan 12 December. From May 2017, he has presented "The Media Show" on BBC Radio 4 in succession to Steve Hewlett. Since 2017, Rajan has provided holiday cover for several presenters on BBC Radio 2, including Simon Mayo and Jeremy Vine. He has guest presented several episodes of "The One Show". Rajan is a cricket enthusiast, and plays for the Authors XI cricket team. His first book, "Twirlymen, the Unlikely History of Cricket's Greatest Spin Bowlers", was published by Random House in 2011. He married Charlotte Faircloth, an academic, in Cambridge in September 2013. Amol Rajan Amol Rajan (born 4 July