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Amol Rajan will present nan Edinburgh TV Festival Alternative MacTaggart lecture.
Rajan is astir to exit nan BBC to group up a integer talent institution and will talk astir “the domiciled of publicity successful a post-truth world, and why now is nan clip to ‘jump into nan awesome integer Narnia of nan creator economy’.”
One of nan astir prolific BBC presenters of nan past decade, Rajan will soon time off nan corporation. He has been Media Editor, presented nan Radio 4 Today program and had his ain documentary series. He is remaining freelance to coming University Challenge and the Radical pinch Amol Rajan podcast.
The Alternative MacTaggart is intended arsenic a tonic to nan main MacTaggart, which is yet to denote for this year. Last year’s Alternative was delivered by YouTube prima Munya Chawawa, who is precisely nan benignant of personification Rajan will apt beryllium looking to activity pinch erstwhile he sets up shop. He chided nan TV manufacture for “ignoring evolution” arsenic nan “same outdated gatekeepers instrumentality to nan aforesaid outdated guns.”
Rajan is nan first sanction announced connected nan Edinburgh 2026 measure alongside Line of Duty star Vicky McClure and shaper Jonny Owen.
This could beryllium nan past twelvemonth nan fest takes spot successful its 50-year-old Scottish home. Organizers are presently considering bids that could spot nan fest relocate to either Greater Manchester aliases Newcastle, aliases stay successful Edinburgh.
Edinburgh Advisory Chair, Adam Hawkins, said: “This year’s Festival lands astatine a pivotal time for nan TV industry. Never person location been much challenges and much opportunities. Amol and Vicky are unsocial and move voices whose perspectives tin thief style nan early of TV successful each its forms.”
