The Audio Long Read
A podcast by The Guardian
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925 Episodes
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The Ciskei experiment: a libertarian fantasy in apartheid South Africa
Published: 14/04/2023 -
From the archive – The sound of icebergs melting: my journey into the Antarctic
Published: 12/04/2023 -
‘They robbed me of my children’: Yemen’s war victims tell their stories
Published: 10/04/2023 -
The stupidity of AI
Published: 07/04/2023 -
From the archive – The girl in the box: the mysterious crime that shocked Germany
Published: 05/04/2023 -
The disabled villain: why sensitivity reading can’t kill off this ugly trope
Published: 03/04/2023 -
Foreign mothers, foreign tongues: ‘In another universe, she could have been my friend’
Published: 31/03/2023 -
From the archive: Why do people hate vegans?
Published: 29/03/2023 -
The trials of an Indian witness: how a Muslim man was caught in a legal nightmare
Published: 27/03/2023 -
‘I know where the bodies are buried’: one woman’s mission to change how the police investigate rape
Published: 24/03/2023 -
From the archive: Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands
Published: 22/03/2023 -
Baghdad memories: what the first few months of the US occupation felt like to an Iraqi
Published: 20/03/2023 -
Dinner with Proust: how Alzheimer’s caregivers are pulled into their patients’ worlds
Published: 17/03/2023 -
From the archive: How the MoD’s plan to privatise military housing ended in disaster
Published: 15/03/2023 -
‘One billionaire at a time’: inside the Swiss clinics where the super-rich go for rehab
Published: 13/03/2023 -
From the archive: The real David Attenborough
Published: 10/03/2023 -
No coach, no agent, no ego: the incredible story of the ‘Lionel Messi of cliff diving’
Published: 06/03/2023 -
From the archive: Fifty shades of white: the long fight against racism in romance novels
Published: 03/03/2023 -
Portrait of a killer: art class in one of Mexico’s most notorious prisons
Published: 27/02/2023 -
From the archive: Welcome to the land that no country wants
Published: 24/02/2023
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.
