The Audio Long Read
A podcast by The Guardian
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925 Episodes
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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 other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US
Published: 01/11/2024 -
10 years of the long read: Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand (2018)
Published: 30/10/2024 -
‘Places to heal, not to harm’: why brutal prison design kills off hope
Published: 28/10/2024 -
The trial of Björn Höcke, the ‘real boss’ of Germany’s far right
Published: 25/10/2024 -
10 years of the long read: How the sandwich consumed Britain (2017)
Published: 23/10/2024 -
‘For me, there was no other choice’: inside the global illegal organ trade
Published: 21/10/2024 -
How oligarchs took on the UK fraud squad – and won
Published: 18/10/2024 -
10 years of the long read: Man v rat: could the long war soon be over? (2016)
Published: 16/10/2024 -
Morality and rules, and how to avoid drowning: what my daughters learned at school in China
Published: 14/10/2024 -
The shapeshifter: who is the real Giorgia Meloni?
Published: 11/10/2024 -
10 years of the long read: Farewell to America (2015)
Published: 09/10/2024 -
The cocaine kingpin’s wildest legacy: what can be done with Pablo Escobar’s marauding hippos?
Published: 07/10/2024 -
‘Like a cheese grater raking across my nipple’: why I kept trying to breastfeed for so long
Published: 04/10/2024
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.
