After five years in one of the BBC’s top jobs, Amol Rajan has decided that “the pips have sounded, and it’s time to get my coat”. On Thursday, the broadcaster announced that he would be stepping down from his role as the host of Radio 4’s Today programme, a decision he admitted “might be mad”, in order to “jump into the great digital Narnia of the creator economy, and build my own company”. He would, he added, be channelling his childhood hero, Del Boy from Only Fools and Horses, in order to “unleash my inner entrepreneur”.
The 42-year-old was keen to stress that he is “very much not leaving the BBC”, which he hailed as “Britain’s noblest cultural institution”, and he’ll continue to present University Challenge and his podcast, Radical with Amol Rajan.
