The Audio Long Read
A podcast by The Guardian
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925 Episodes
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Best of 2022: ‘Is this justice?’: why Sudan is facing a multibillion-dollar bill for 9/11
Published: 30/12/2022 -
Best of 2022: The amazing true(ish) story of the ‘Honduran Maradona’
Published: 26/12/2022 -
Best of 2022: ‘Parents are frightened for themselves and for their children’: an inspirational school in impossible times
Published: 23/12/2022 -
Best of 2022: The sludge king: how one man turned an industrial wasteland into his own El Dorado
Published: 19/12/2022 -
Best of 2022: ‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder
Published: 16/12/2022 -
Best of 2022: Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker: the strange case of the Nave Andromeda
Published: 12/12/2022 -
The many meanings of moss
Published: 09/12/2022 -
From the archive: Dulwich Hamlet: the tiny football club that lost its home to developers – and won it back
Published: 07/12/2022 -
‘He was fast … he ran you right over’: what it’s like to get hit by an SUV
Published: 05/12/2022 -
How to move a country: Fiji’s radical plan to escape rising sea levels
Published: 02/12/2022 -
From the archive: China’s hi-tech war on its Muslim minority
Published: 30/11/2022 -
‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that help explain Britain today
Published: 28/11/2022 -
Are we really prisoners of geography?
Published: 25/11/2022 -
From the archive: How I let drinking take over my life
Published: 23/11/2022 -
The night everything changed: waiting for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Published: 21/11/2022 -
Megalopolis: how coastal west Africa will shape the coming century
Published: 18/11/2022 -
From the archive – Spain’s Watergate: inside the corruption scandal that changed a nation
Published: 16/11/2022 -
Is the IMF fit for purpose?
Published: 14/11/2022 -
Ukraine’s true detectives: the investigators closing in on Russian war criminals
Published: 11/11/2022 -
From the archive: The Anthropocene epoch: have we entered a new phase of planetary history?
Published: 09/11/2022
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.
