The Audio Long Read

1088 Episodes

1. Horse racing and erotica: how I survived the fickle world of freelance writing

   Published: 18/07/2025
2. From the archive: The sludge king: how one man turned an industrial wasteland into his own El Dorado

   Published: 16/07/2025
3. Sold to the Trump family: one of the last undeveloped islands in the Mediterranean

   Published: 14/07/2025
4. How does woke start winning again?

   Published: 11/07/2025
5. From the archive: The death of the department store

   Published: 09/07/2025
6. ‘Do you have a family?’: midlife with no kids, ageing parents – and no crisis

   Published: 07/07/2025
7. Why does Switzerland have more nuclear bunkers than any other country?

   Published: 04/07/2025
8. From the archive: ‘You can’t be the player’s friend’: inside the secret world of tennis umpires

   Published: 02/07/2025
9. My husband and son suffered strokes, 30 years apart. Shockingly little had changed

   Published: 30/06/2025
10. ‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star

    Published: 27/06/2025
11. From the archive: ‘A nursery of the Commons’: how the Oxford Union created today’s ruling political class

    Published: 25/06/2025
12. ‘Outdated and unjust’: can we reform global capitalism?

    Published: 23/06/2025
13. Extremely loud and incredibly scouse: how Jamie Carragher conquered football punditry

    Published: 20/06/2025
14. From the archive: Burying Leni Riefenstahl: one woman’s lifelong crusade against Hitler’s favourite film-maker

    Published: 18/06/2025
15. ‘You can let go now’: inside the hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain

    Published: 16/06/2025
16. An English gentleman, a crooked lawyer: the secrets of Stephen David Jones

    Published: 13/06/2025
17. From the archive: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: three days with a giant of African literature

    Published: 11/06/2025
18. Death, divorce and the magic of kitchen objects: how to find hope in loss

    Published: 09/06/2025
19. Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode 1

    Published: 06/06/2025
20. A deadly mission: how Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira tried to warn the world about the Amazon’s destruction

    Published: 05/06/2025