The Audio Long Read

A podcast by The Guardian

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925 Episodes

  1. Best of 2023: Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site

    Published: 18/12/2023

  2. Best of 2023: Proust, ChatGPT and the case of the forgotten quote

    Published: 15/12/2023

  3. Best of 2023: Dark waters: how the adventure of a lifetime turned to tragedy

    Published: 11/12/2023

  4. Nitrogen wars: the Dutch farmers’ revolt that turned a nation upside-down

    Published: 08/12/2023

  5. From the archive: The rise and fall of French cuisine

    Published: 06/12/2023

  6. ‘I remember the silence between the falling shells’: the terror of living under siege as a child

    Published: 04/12/2023

  7. A violent murder, a child on death row

    Published: 01/12/2023

  8. From the archive: ‘We the people’: the battle to define populism

    Published: 29/11/2023

  9. The Netanyahu doctrine: how Israel’s longest-serving leader reshaped the country in his image

    Published: 27/11/2023

  10. Chainsaws, disguises and toxic tea: the battle for Sheffield’s trees

    Published: 24/11/2023

  11. From the archive: How the murders of two elderly Jewish women shook France

    Published: 22/11/2023

  12. ‘I stopped counting how many friends died’: life after the contaminated blood scandal

    Published: 20/11/2023

  13. Inside the Taliban’s luxury hotel

    Published: 17/11/2023

  14. Special Edition: Behind the scenes at the Long Read

    Published: 15/11/2023

  15. The mass protest decade: why did the street movements of the 2010s fail?

    Published: 13/11/2023

  16. ‘Incoherence and inconsistency’: the inside story of the Rwanda deportation plan

    Published: 10/11/2023

  17. From the archive: The last of the Zoroastrians

    Published: 08/11/2023

  18. The insider: how Michael Lewis got a backstage pass for the fall of Sam Bankman-Fried

    Published: 06/11/2023

  19. ‘We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world

    Published: 03/11/2023

  20. From the archive: What I have learned from my suicidal patients

    Published: 01/11/2023

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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.