The Audio Long Read
A podcast by The Guardian
1064 Episodes
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Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest
Published: 10/10/2025 -
From the archive: The Blackstone rebellion: how one country took on the world’s biggest commercial landlord
Published: 08/10/2025 -
‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster
Published: 06/10/2025 -
From bank robber to scholar: the Knoxville dropout fighting to change how we see addiction
Published: 03/10/2025 -
From the archive: Divine comedy: the standup double act who turned to the priesthood
Published: 01/10/2025 -
‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?
Published: 29/09/2025 -
Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films?
Published: 26/09/2025 -
From the archive: Forgetting the apocalypse: why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous
Published: 24/09/2025 -
‘The forest had gone’: the storm that moved a mountain
Published: 22/09/2025 -
Life in a ‘sinking nation’: Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land
Published: 19/09/2025 -
From the archive: Sewage sleuths: the men who revealed the slow, dirty death of Welsh and English rivers
Published: 17/09/2025 -
Very British bribery: the whistleblower who exposed the UK’s dodgy arms deals with Saudi Arabia
Published: 15/09/2025 -
‘People pay to be told lies’: the rise and fall of the world’s first ayahuasca multinational
Published: 12/09/2025 -
From the archive: ‘We were all wrong’: how Germany got hooked on Russian energy
Published: 10/09/2025 -
Dancing with Putin: how Austria’s former foreign minister found a new home in Russia
Published: 08/09/2025 -
Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’
Published: 05/09/2025 -
From the archive: ‘We need to break the junk food cycle’: how to fix Britain’s failing food system
Published: 03/09/2025 -
The rise and fall of the British cult that hid in plain sight
Published: 01/09/2025 -
Best of 2025 … so far: ‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star
Published: 29/08/2025 -
Best of 2025 … so far: ‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies?
Published: 27/08/2025
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.
