1083 Episodes

  1. ‘Do you have a family?’: midlife with no kids, ageing parents – and no crisis

    Published: 7/07/2025

  2. Why does Switzerland have more nuclear bunkers than any other country?

    Published: 4/07/2025

  3. From the archive: ‘You can’t be the player’s friend’: inside the secret world of tennis umpires

    Published: 2/07/2025

  4. My husband and son suffered strokes, 30 years apart. Shockingly little had changed

    Published: 30/06/2025

  5. ‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star

    Published: 27/06/2025

  6. From the archive: ‘A nursery of the Commons’: how the Oxford Union created today’s ruling political class

    Published: 25/06/2025

  7. ‘Outdated and unjust’: can we reform global capitalism?

    Published: 23/06/2025

  8. Extremely loud and incredibly scouse: how Jamie Carragher conquered football punditry

    Published: 20/06/2025

  9. From the archive: Burying Leni Riefenstahl: one woman’s lifelong crusade against Hitler’s favourite film-maker

    Published: 18/06/2025

  10. ‘You can let go now’: inside the hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain

    Published: 16/06/2025

  11. An English gentleman, a crooked lawyer: the secrets of Stephen David Jones

    Published: 13/06/2025

  12. From the archive: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: three days with a giant of African literature

    Published: 11/06/2025

  13. Death, divorce and the magic of kitchen objects: how to find hope in loss

    Published: 9/06/2025

  14. Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode 1

    Published: 6/06/2025

  15. A deadly mission: how Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira tried to warn the world about the Amazon’s destruction

    Published: 5/06/2025

  16. From the archive: Alan Yentob: the last impresario

    Published: 4/06/2025

  17. ‘We know what is happening, we cannot walk away’: how the Guardian bore witness to horror in former Yugoslavia

    Published: 2/06/2025

  18. The ancient psychedelics myth: ‘People tell tourists the stories they think are interesting for them’

    Published: 30/05/2025

  19. From the archive: The lost Jews of Nigeria

    Published: 28/05/2025

  20. ‘We thought we could change the world’: how an idealistic fight against miscarriages of justice turned sour

    Published: 26/05/2025

4 / 55

Three times a week, The Audio Long Read podcast brings you the Guardian’s exceptional longform journalism in audio form. Covering topics from politics and culture to philosophy and sport, as well as investigations and current affairs.

Visit the podcast's native language site