The Audio Long Read
A podcast by The Guardian
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938 Episodes
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Best of 2024: ‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s
Published: 20/12/2024 -
Best of 2024: Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internationally educated elite
Published: 16/12/2024 -
Revisited: Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison
Published: 13/12/2024 -
10 years of the long read: Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers (2024)
Published: 11/12/2024 -
10 years of the long read: ‘All that we had is gone’: my lament for war-torn Khartoum (2023)
Published: 09/12/2024 -
A new nuclear arms race is beginning. It will be far more dangerous than the last one
Published: 06/12/2024 -
Revisited: Too much stuff: can we solve our addiction to consumerism?
Published: 04/12/2024 -
The scandal of food waste – and how we can stop it
Published: 02/12/2024 -
‘I couldn’t cry over my children like everyone else’: the tragedy of Palestinian journalist Wael al-Dahdouh
Published: 29/11/2024 -
10 years of the long read: Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker: the strange case of the Nave Andromeda (2022)
Published: 27/11/2024 -
A cool flame: how Gaia theory was born out of a secret love affair
Published: 25/11/2024 -
‘You tried to tell yourself I wasn’t real’: what happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?
Published: 22/11/2024 -
10 years of the long read: The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship (2021)
Published: 20/11/2024 -
The cement company that paid millions to Isis: was Lafarge complicit in crimes against humanity?
Published: 18/11/2024 -
Journalist or Russian spy? The strange case of Pablo González
Published: 15/11/2024 -
10 years of the long read: The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life underground (2020)
Published: 13/11/2024 -
Has poppymania gone too far?
Published: 11/11/2024 -
Slash and burn: is private equity out of control?
Published: 08/11/2024 -
10 years of the long read: Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands (2019)
Published: 06/11/2024 -
Hidden traces of humanity: what AI images reveal about our world
Published: 04/11/2024
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.
