The Audio Long Read
A podcast by The Guardian
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964 Episodes
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The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay
Published: 21/02/2025 -
From the archive: Was it inevitable? A short history of Russia’s war on Ukraine
Published: 19/02/2025 -
The loudest megaphone: how Trump mastered our new attention age
Published: 17/02/2025 -
How a young Dutch woman’s life began when she was allowed to die
Published: 14/02/2025 -
From the archive: The knackerman: the toughest job in British farming
Published: 12/02/2025 -
‘Bring me my tariffs’: how Trump’s China plan was 40 years in the making
Published: 10/02/2025 -
Tokyo drift: what happens when a city stops being the future?
Published: 07/02/2025 -
From the archive: The false positives scandal: how thousands of innocent Colombians were killed so soldiers could get more holiday
Published: 05/02/2025 -
The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?
Published: 03/02/2025 -
Endless work, little money, occasional UFOs: my father’s five decades driving Brazil’s roads
Published: 31/01/2025 -
From the archive: How one man spent 34 years in prison after setting fire to a pair of curtains
Published: 29/01/2025 -
The man making a business out of China’s burnout generation
Published: 27/01/2025 -
Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain
Published: 24/01/2025 -
From the archive: Inspired by nature: the thrilling new science that could transform medicine
Published: 22/01/2025 -
‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies?
Published: 20/01/2025 -
Inside the Vatican’s secret saint-making process
Published: 17/01/2025 -
From the archive: ‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder
Published: 15/01/2025 -
The inspiring scientists who saved the world’s first seed bank
Published: 13/01/2025 -
The ‘mad egghead’ who built a mouse utopia
Published: 10/01/2025 -
From the archive: Cold comfort: how cold water swimming cured my broken heart
Published: 08/01/2025
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.
