The Audio Long Read
A podcast by The Guardian
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950 Episodes
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‘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 -
Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother
Published: 06/01/2025 -
The brain collector: the scientist unravelling the mysteries of grey matter
Published: 03/01/2025 -
From the archive: The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine?
Published: 01/01/2025 -
The rollercoaster king: the man behind the UK’s fastest thrill-ride
Published: 30/12/2024 -
Best of 2024: ‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s libraries provide much more than books
Published: 27/12/2024 -
Best of 2024: As a teenager, John was jailed for assaulting someone and stealing their bike. That was 17 years ago – will he ever be released?
Published: 23/12/2024 -
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
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.
