The Audio Long Read
A podcast by The Guardian
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925 Episodes
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From the archive: The man in the iron lung
Published: 31/05/2023 -
On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer in the world
Published: 29/05/2023 -
The dark universe: can a scientist battling long Covid unlock the mysteries of the cosmos?
Published: 26/05/2023 -
From the archive: Splendid isolation: how I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours
Published: 24/05/2023 -
How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking
Published: 22/05/2023 -
‘I feel like I’m selling my soul’: inside the crisis at Juventus
Published: 19/05/2023 -
From the archive: How ultra-processed food took over your shopping basket
Published: 17/05/2023 -
Sleeping beauties: the evolutionary innovations that wait millions of years to come good
Published: 15/05/2023 -
Sudan’s outsider: how a paramilitary leader fell out with the army and plunged the country into war
Published: 12/05/2023 -
From the archive: Cod wars to food banks: how a Lancashire fishing town is hanging on
Published: 10/05/2023 -
Are coincidences real?
Published: 08/05/2023 -
‘The torture’s real. The time I did was real’: the Belfast man waterboarded by the British army
Published: 05/05/2023 -
From the archive: Are your tinned tomatoes picked by slave labour?
Published: 03/05/2023 -
Will flying ever be green?
Published: 01/05/2023 -
How Deborah Levy can change your life
Published: 28/04/2023 -
From the archive: My four miscarriages: why is losing a pregnancy so shrouded in mystery?
Published: 26/04/2023 -
Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times
Published: 24/04/2023 -
The impossible job: inside the world of Premier League referees
Published: 21/04/2023 -
From the archive: The race to create a perfect lie detector, and the dangers of succeeding
Published: 19/04/2023 -
Three abandoned children, two missing parents and a 40-year mystery
Published: 17/04/2023
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.
