The Audio Long Read
A podcast by The Guardian
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925 Episodes
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My small, doomed stand against Margaret Thatcher’s war on truth
Published: 07/11/2022 -
Greenwashing a police state: the truth behind Egypt’s Cop27 masquerade
Published: 04/11/2022 -
From the archive: The dark history of Donald Trump’s rightwing revolt
Published: 02/11/2022 -
Psychiatry wars: the lawsuit that put psychoanalysis on trial
Published: 31/10/2022 -
Ben Roberts-Smith v the media: episode one of a new podcast
Published: 29/10/2022 -
The amazing true(ish) story of the ‘Honduran Maradona’
Published: 28/10/2022 -
From the archive: ‘A zombie party’: the deepening crisis of conservatism
Published: 26/10/2022 -
The cartel, the journalist and the gangland killings that rocked the Netherlands
Published: 24/10/2022 -
No place like home: my bitter return to Palestine
Published: 21/10/2022 -
From the archive: Going underground: inside the world of the mole-catchers
Published: 19/10/2022 -
The Blackstone rebellion: how one country took on the world’s biggest commercial landlord
Published: 17/10/2022 -
Ransomware hunters: the self-taught tech geniuses fighting cybercrime
Published: 14/10/2022 -
From the archive: The school beneath the wave: the unimaginable tragedy of Japan’s tsunami
Published: 12/10/2022 -
Allergic to the world: can medicine help people with severe intolerance to chemicals?
Published: 10/10/2022 -
Divine comedy: the standup double act who turned to the priesthood
Published: 07/10/2022 -
From the archive: Why we should bulldoze the business school
Published: 05/10/2022 -
The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion?
Published: 03/10/2022 -
Unboxing, bad baby and evil Santa: how YouTube got swamped with creepy content for kids
Published: 30/09/2022 -
From the archive: ‘State capture’: the corruption investigation that has shaken South Africa
Published: 28/09/2022 -
‘Farmed’: why were so many Black children fostered by white families in the UK?
Published: 26/09/2022
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.
