Amol Rajan Interviews...

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Amol Rajan Interviews...

Amol Rajan interviews the era-defining pioneers, leaders and maverick thinkers who are shaping our rapidly changing 21st-century world.

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  1. 2023/02/03

    Billie Jean King

    Amol Rajan talks to a true gamechanger: Billie Jean King. A record-breaking tennis player on the court, and a boundary-busting social activist off the court, King dominated tennis whilst campaigning to get the women’s sport recognised and female athletes treated as equal to the men. At her spiritual home of Wimbledon – where she holds the record for most career wins – King talks to Rajan about her lifelong battle for equality and inclusion, and how she has balanced her activism with both a record-breaking sports career and a tumultuous personal life. In a tennis career spanning nearly 30 years, Billie Jean King became the first female sports superstar, winning 39 Grand Slam titles and holding the world number one position for six years. As the first female athlete-activist, King transformed the women’s game. She and eight other renegades created professional women’s tennis when they started the first ever women’s tennis tour in 1971. King then co-founded the Women’s Tennis Association and forced the US Open to become the first Grand Slam tournament to offer equal prize money to its male and female players. During the 1970s, while at the very top of her game and height of her activism, King was contending with intense turmoil in her private life. News of an abortion she had was made public against her will, at a time before the Roe v Wade ruling made legal abortion a constitutional right in the US. Meanwhile, she struggled to come to terms with her homosexuality while married to a man, before being publicly outed. In 1981, King became the first prominent professional female athlete to speak publicly about her homosexuality and, as a result, lost all her endorsements overnight. In discussing her extraordinary life, Billie Jean King and Amol Rajan also touch on topical issues such as the sport world’s response to the war in Ukraine, trans athletes and mental health matters. This programme was recorded in June 2022.

    1 小时 5 分钟
  2. 2021/07/11

    Sundar Pichai

    Amol Rajan talks to Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, at his Silicon Valley HQ, in an in-depth, hard-hitting and personally revealing encounter. In the course of their hour-long interview, which is as much about the man as the politics and controversies around Google itself, they tackle a range of topical issues, from the company’s hotly debated privacy practice and tax policies to its pioneering development in AI and quantum computing. We also learn about Pichai’s stratospheric rise from a modest middle-class upbringing in south east India to his appointment as the $1.6 trillion tech giant’s CEO, aged 47, with an annual pay packet ranging from $7 million to $281 million. Rajan and Pichai bond over their shared Tamil Nadu family background and their mutual love of cricket - both had hoped to become professional cricketers. Their encounter ends with them bowling each other a few friendly rounds. But Rajan does not shy away from levelling some uncomfortable questions at Pichai, such as "has Google become too big?" He also probes him about recent anti-trust attacks from Republicans and Democrats and concern from regulators around the world, and pushes Pichai to counter criticisms of “surveillance capitalism” and from those who claim Google’s new Privacy Sandbox will undermine competition in digital advertising and entrench Google’s market power. He quotes some mind-boggling figures, including the company’s net profits, which doubled to $17.9 billion in just three months. Is it morally right, he asks, that Alphabet is now worth $1.6 trillion, making it richer than Australia, Saudi Arabia or Switzerland? Series Producer Elizabeth Needham-Bennett Studio Manager Graham Puddifoot

    59 分钟

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