The Audio Long Read
A podcast by The Guardian
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981 Episodes
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From the archive: ‘The treeline is out of control’: how the climate crisis is turning the Arctic green
Published: 02/04/2025 -
Holidays in hell: summer camp with Russia’s forgotten children
Published: 31/03/2025 -
The savage suburbia of Helen Garner: ‘I wanted to dong Martin Amis with a bat’
Published: 28/03/2025 -
From the archive: Is society coming apart?
Published: 26/03/2025 -
The Coventry experiment: why were Indian women in Britain given radioactive food without their consent?
Published: 24/03/2025 -
My life as a prison officer: ‘It wasn’t just the smell that hit you. It was the noise’
Published: 21/03/2025 -
From the archive: The revolt against liberalism: what’s driving Poland and Hungary’s nativist turn?
Published: 19/03/2025 -
‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis?
Published: 17/03/2025 -
Turkey said it would become a ‘zero waste’ nation. Instead, it became a dumping ground for Europe’s rubbish
Published: 14/03/2025 -
From the archive: The end of Atlanticism: has Trump killed the ideology that won the cold war?
Published: 12/03/2025 -
Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand?
Published: 10/03/2025 -
‘Here lives the monster’s brain’: the man who exposed Switzerland’s dirty secrets
Published: 07/03/2025 -
From the archive: ‘In my 30 years as a GP, the profession has been horribly eroded’
Published: 05/03/2025 -
Massacre in the jungle: how an Indigenous man was made the public face of an atrocity
Published: 03/03/2025 -
Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’
Published: 28/02/2025 -
From the archive: One drug dealer, two corrupt cops and a risky FBI sting
Published: 26/02/2025 -
Innit innit boys and Super Eagles: how Nigerian Londoners found their identity through football
Published: 24/02/2025 -
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
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.
