The Audio Long Read
A podcast by The Guardian
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926 Episodes
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How the speed of climate change is unbalancing the insect world
Published: 07/02/2022 -
Weekend: episode one of a new podcast
Published: 05/02/2022 -
Burying Leni Riefenstahl: one woman’s lifelong crusade against Hitler’s favourite film-maker
Published: 04/02/2022 -
From the archive: Man v rat: could the long war soon be over?
Published: 02/02/2022 -
China’s troll king: how a tabloid editor became the voice of Chinese nationalism
Published: 31/01/2022 -
Life after Deepwater Horizon: the hidden toll of surviving disaster on an oil rig
Published: 28/01/2022 -
From the archive: How Robyn transformed pop
Published: 26/01/2022 -
Life after death: how the pandemic has transformed our psychic landscape
Published: 24/01/2022 -
‘We tried to be joyful enough to deserve our new lives’: What it’s really like to be a refugee in Britain
Published: 21/01/2022 -
From the archive: Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet
Published: 19/01/2022 -
What Covid taught us about racism – and what we need to do now
Published: 17/01/2022 -
‘We need to respect the process of healing’: a GP on the overlooked art of recovery
Published: 14/01/2022 -
From the archive: The brutal world of sheep fighting: the illegal sport beloved by Algeria’s ‘lost generation’
Published: 12/01/2022 -
A 975-day nightmare: how the Home Office forced a British citizen into destitution abroad
Published: 10/01/2022 -
‘We need to break the junk food cycle’: how to fix Britain’s failing food system
Published: 07/01/2022 -
From the archive: Is this the world’s most radical mayor?
Published: 04/01/2022 -
Is society coming apart?
Published: 03/01/2022 -
Best long reads of 2021: Brazilian butt lift: behind the world’s most dangerous cosmetic surgery
Published: 31/12/2021 -
From the archive: Latin America’s Schindler: a forgotten hero of the 20th century
Published: 29/12/2021 -
Best long reads of 2021: The student and the algorithm: how the exam results fiasco threatened one pupil’s future
Published: 27/12/2021
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.
