The Audio Long Read
A podcast by The Guardian
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925 Episodes
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How Ukraine’s national dish became a symbol of Putin’s invasion
Published: 17/07/2023 -
‘Why I might have done what I did’: conversations with Ireland’s most notorious murderer
Published: 14/07/2023 -
From the archive: Life after deportation: ‘No one tells you how lonely you’re going to be’
Published: 12/07/2023 -
‘Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic’
Published: 10/07/2023 -
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: three days with a giant of African literature
Published: 07/07/2023 -
From the archive: A 975-day nightmare: how the Home Office forced a British citizen into destitution abroad
Published: 05/07/2023 -
The planet’s economist: has Kate Raworth found a model for sustainable living?
Published: 03/07/2023 -
‘I knew the terror of lost time’: how my father’s dementia echoed my own alcoholism
Published: 30/06/2023 -
From the archive: Party and protest: the radical history of gay liberation, Stonewall and Pride
Published: 28/06/2023 -
The backlash: how slavery research came under fire
Published: 26/06/2023 -
Can humans ever understand how animals think?
Published: 23/06/2023 -
From the archive: History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future
Published: 21/06/2023 -
The strange survival of Guinness World Records
Published: 19/06/2023 -
Out of our minds: opium’s part in imperial history
Published: 16/06/2023 -
From the archive: The great American tax haven: why the super-rich love South Dakota
Published: 14/06/2023 -
The rubbishscapes of Essex: why our buried trash is back to haunt us
Published: 12/06/2023 -
Dark waters: how the adventure of a lifetime turned to tragedy
Published: 09/06/2023 -
From the archive: How Hong Kong caught fire: the story of a radical uprising
Published: 07/06/2023 -
The war on Japanese knotweed
Published: 05/06/2023 -
Erdogan’s earthquake: how years of bad government made a disaster worse
Published: 02/06/2023
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.
