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Radio 4,13 Apr 2026,21 mins
Can Technology Rescue Reading? (Your Radical Questions with James Marriott)
Radical with Amol RajanAvailable for over a year
Amol runs through your questions with the Times columnist James Marriott. They take on whether we could use technology to encourage people to do more reading, pessimism on social media, and whether we risk changing our sense of what it means to be human when we lose our connection to imaginary worlds in books. James鈥檚 Radio 4 series 鈥楬ow Reading Made Us鈥 is available now on 麻豆社 Sounds. GET IN TOUCH * WhatsApp: 0330 123 9480 * Email: radical@bbc.co.uk Episodes of Radical with Amol Rajan are released every Thursday. Amol presents the Today programme on 麻豆社 Radio 4 and hosts University Challenge on 麻豆社 One. Before that, Amol was media editor at the 麻豆社 and editor of The Independent newspaper. Radical with Amol Rajan is a Today Podcast. It was made by Lewis Vickers and Rufus Gray with Anna Budd, Cordelia Hemming and Oscar Pearson. Digital production was by Gabriel Purcell-Davies. Technical production was by Johnny Hall. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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