The Audio Long Read

A podcast by The Guardian

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989 Episodes

  1. Dark waters: how the adventure of a lifetime turned to tragedy

    Published: 09/06/2023
  2. From the archive: How Hong Kong caught fire: the story of a radical uprising

    Published: 07/06/2023
  3. The war on Japanese knotweed

    Published: 05/06/2023
  4. Erdogan’s earthquake: how years of bad government made a disaster worse

    Published: 02/06/2023
  5. From the archive: The man in the iron lung

    Published: 31/05/2023
  6. On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer in the world

    Published: 29/05/2023
  7. The dark universe: can a scientist battling long Covid unlock the mysteries of the cosmos?

    Published: 26/05/2023
  8. From the archive: Splendid isolation: how I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours

    Published: 24/05/2023
  9. How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking

    Published: 22/05/2023
  10. ‘I feel like I’m selling my soul’: inside the crisis at Juventus

    Published: 19/05/2023
  11. From the archive: How ultra-processed food took over your shopping basket

    Published: 17/05/2023
  12. Sleeping beauties: the evolutionary innovations that wait millions of years to come good

    Published: 15/05/2023
  13. Sudan’s outsider: how a paramilitary leader fell out with the army and plunged the country into war

    Published: 12/05/2023
  14. From the archive: Cod wars to food banks: how a Lancashire fishing town is hanging on

    Published: 10/05/2023
  15. Are coincidences real?

    Published: 08/05/2023
  16. ‘The torture’s real. The time I did was real’: the Belfast man waterboarded by the British army

    Published: 05/05/2023
  17. From the archive: Are your tinned tomatoes picked by slave labour?

    Published: 03/05/2023
  18. Will flying ever be green?

    Published: 01/05/2023
  19. How Deborah Levy can change your life

    Published: 28/04/2023
  20. From the archive: My four miscarriages: why is losing a pregnancy so shrouded in mystery?

    Published: 26/04/2023

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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.