Amol Rajan He was state school educated at Graveney School, then a comprehensive, and read English at Downing College, Cambridge, where he contributed to "Varsity". He was Editor of the student newspaper for a term in 2005. At the age of 18, Rajan worked in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) for one year during his gap year. Rajan was the secondary presenter on "The Wright Stuff", the daytime talk show on the Five network, during its 2006-7 series. He was also a researcher on the programme. He joined "The Independent" newspaper in August 2007, where he was over the next few
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