The Audio Long Read
A podcast by The Guardian
1010 Episodes
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Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode 1
Published: 06/06/2025 -
A deadly mission: how Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira tried to warn the world about the Amazon’s destruction
Published: 05/06/2025 -
From the archive: Alan Yentob: the last impresario
Published: 04/06/2025 -
‘We know what is happening, we cannot walk away’: how the Guardian bore witness to horror in former Yugoslavia
Published: 02/06/2025 -
The ancient psychedelics myth: ‘People tell tourists the stories they think are interesting for them’
Published: 30/05/2025 -
From the archive: The lost Jews of Nigeria
Published: 28/05/2025 -
‘We thought we could change the world’: how an idealistic fight against miscarriages of justice turned sour
Published: 26/05/2025 -
‘All other avenues have been exhausted’: Is legal action the only way to save the planet?
Published: 23/05/2025 -
From the archive: Super-prime mover: Britain’s most successful estate agent
Published: 21/05/2025 -
A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the far right
Published: 19/05/2025 -
‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son
Published: 16/05/2025 -
From the archive: What lies beneath: the truth about France’s top serial killer expert
Published: 14/05/2025 -
‘Why would he take such a risk?’ How a famous Chinese author befriended his censor
Published: 12/05/2025 -
The mystery of the nameless girl found dead in a Spanish border town
Published: 09/05/2025 -
From the archive: Food fraud and counterfeit cotton: the detectives untangling the global supply chain
Published: 07/05/2025 -
From acid house to ancient rites: Jeremy Deller’s enormous, collaborative, unsellable art
Published: 05/05/2025 -
What happens when the US declares war on your parents? The Black Panther Cubs know
Published: 02/05/2025 -
From the archive: The last phone boxes: broken glass, cider cans and – amazingly – a dial tone
Published: 30/04/2025 -
Many life-saving drugs fail for lack of funding. But there’s a solution: desperate rich people
Published: 28/04/2025 -
In search of the South Pacific fugitive who crowned himself king
Published: 25/04/2025
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.
