The Audio Long Read
A podcast by The Guardian
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912 Episodes
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How oligarchs took on the UK fraud squad – and won
Published: 18/10/2024 -
10 years of the long read: Man v rat: could the long war soon be over? (2016)
Published: 16/10/2024 -
Morality and rules, and how to avoid drowning: what my daughters learned at school in China
Published: 14/10/2024 -
The shapeshifter: who is the real Giorgia Meloni?
Published: 11/10/2024 -
10 years of the long read: Farewell to America (2015)
Published: 9/10/2024 -
The cocaine kingpin’s wildest legacy: what can be done with Pablo Escobar’s marauding hippos?
Published: 7/10/2024 -
‘Like a cheese grater raking across my nipple’: why I kept trying to breastfeed for so long
Published: 4/10/2024 -
10 years of the long read: Is this the end of Britishness? (2014)
Published: 2/10/2024 -
Special Edition: 10 years of the Guardian Long Read
Published: 1/10/2024 -
Strange and wondrous creatures: plankton and the origins of life on Earth
Published: 30/09/2024 -
No god in the machine: the pitfalls of AI worship
Published: 27/09/2024 -
From the archive: The unravelling of a conspiracy: were the 16 charged with plotting to kill India’s prime minister framed?
Published: 25/09/2024 -
On board the Creed cruise: the unfathomable return of the ‘worst band of the 90s’
Published: 23/09/2024 -
A Chinese-born writer’s quest to understand the Vikings, Normans and life on the English coast
Published: 20/09/2024 -
From the archive: The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea
Published: 18/09/2024 -
Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers
Published: 16/09/2024 -
As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel
Published: 13/09/2024 -
From the archive: Death on demand: has euthanasia gone too far?
Published: 11/09/2024 -
‘A diagnosis can sweep away guilt’: the delicate art of treating ADHD
Published: 9/09/2024 -
From the archive – ‘A merry-go-round of buck-passing’: inside the four-year Grenfell inquiry
Published: 6/09/2024
The Audio Long Read podcast is a selection of the Guardian’s long reads, giving you the opportunity to get on with your day while listening to some of the finest longform journalism the Guardian has to offer, including in-depth writing from around the world on current affairs, climate change, global warming, immigration, crime, business, the arts and much more. The podcast explores a range of subjects and news across business, global politics (including Trump, Israel, Palestine and Gaza), money, philosophy, science, internet culture, modern life, war, climate change, current affairs, music and trends, and seeks to answer key questions around them through in depth interviews explainers, and analysis with quality Guardian reporting. Through first person accounts, narrative audio storytelling and investigative reporting, the Audio Long Read seeks to dive deep, debunk myths and uncover hidden histories. In previous episodes we have asked questions like: do we need a new theory of evolution? Whether Trump can win the US presidency or not? Why can't we stop quantifying our lives? Why have our nuclear fears faded? Why do so many bikes end up underwater? How did Germany get hooked on Russian energy? Are we all prisoners of geography? How was London's Olympic legacy sold out? Who owns Einstein? Is free will an illusion? What lies beghind the Arctic's Indigenous suicide crisis? What is the mystery of India's deadly exam scam? Who is the man who built his own cathedral? And, how did the world get hooked on palm oil? Other topics range from: history including empire to politics, conflict, Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Gaza, philosophy, science, psychology, health and finance. Audio Long Read journalists include Samira Shackle, Tom Lamont, Sophie Elmhirst, Samanth Subramanian, Imogen West-Knights, Sirin Kale, Daniel Trilling and Giles Tremlett.
