The Audio Long Read

1090 Episodes

1. ‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang

   Published: 24/10/2025
2. From the archive: Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famous face

   Published: 22/10/2025
3. The origins of today’s conflict between American Jews over Israel

   Published: 20/10/2025
4. ‘I have to do it’: why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China

   Published: 17/10/2025
5. From the archive: ‘Infertility stung me’: Black motherhood and me

   Published: 15/10/2025
6. ‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning

   Published: 13/10/2025
7. Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest

   Published: 10/10/2025
8. From the archive: The Blackstone rebellion: how one country took on the world’s biggest commercial landlord

   Published: 8/10/2025
9. ‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster

   Published: 6/10/2025
10. From bank robber to scholar: the Knoxville dropout fighting to change how we see addiction

    Published: 3/10/2025
11. From the archive: Divine comedy: the standup double act who turned to the priesthood

    Published: 1/10/2025
12. ‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?

    Published: 29/09/2025
13. Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films?

    Published: 26/09/2025
14. From the archive: Forgetting the apocalypse: why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous

    Published: 24/09/2025
15. ‘The forest had gone’: the storm that moved a mountain

    Published: 22/09/2025
16. Life in a ‘sinking nation’: Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land

    Published: 19/09/2025
17. From the archive: Sewage sleuths: the men who revealed the slow, dirty death of Welsh and English rivers

    Published: 17/09/2025
18. Very British bribery: the whistleblower who exposed the UK’s dodgy arms deals with Saudi Arabia

    Published: 15/09/2025
19. ‘People pay to be told lies’: the rise and fall of the world’s first ayahuasca multinational

    Published: 12/09/2025
20. From the archive: ‘We were all wrong’: how Germany got hooked on Russian energy

    Published: 10/09/2025