The Audio Long Read

A podcast by The Guardian

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925 Episodes

  1. My family and other Nazis

    Published: 12/08/2024
  2. Best of 2024 … so far: Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: the forgotten genius who changed British food

    Published: 09/08/2024
  3. Revolution in the air: how laughing gas changed the world

    Published: 05/08/2024
  4. From Nobel peace prize to civil war: how Ethiopia’s leader beguiled the world

    Published: 02/08/2024
  5. From the archive: From Game of Thrones to The Crown: the woman who turns actors into stars

    Published: 31/07/2024
  6. Chortle chortle, scribble scribble: inside the Old Bailey with Britain’s last court reporters

    Published: 29/07/2024
  7. ‘I’m good, I promise’: the loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player

    Published: 26/07/2024
  8. From the archive: ‘As borders closed, I became trapped in my Americanness’: China, the US and me

    Published: 24/07/2024
  9. ‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s libraries provide much more than books

    Published: 22/07/2024
  10. ‘How do I heal?’: the long wait for justice after a black man dies in police custody

    Published: 19/07/2024
  11. From the archive: The elephant vanishes: how a circus family went on the run

    Published: 17/07/2024
  12. Dirty waters: how the Environment Agency lost its way

    Published: 15/07/2024
  13. Inside Mexico’s anti-avocado militias

    Published: 12/07/2024
  14. From the archive: ‘Colonialism had never really ended’: my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes

    Published: 10/07/2024
  15. Where the wild things are: the untapped potential of our gardens, parks and balconies

    Published: 08/07/2024
  16. How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster

    Published: 04/07/2024
  17. From the archive: Ten ways to confront the climate crisis without losing hope

    Published: 03/07/2024
  18. ‘Natty or not?’: how steroids got big

    Published: 01/07/2024
  19. Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internationally educated elite

    Published: 28/06/2024
  20. From the archive: Brazilian butt lift: behind the world’s most dangerous cosmetic surgery

    Published: 26/06/2024

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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.