The Audio Long Read

A podcast by The Guardian

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994 Episodes

  1. From the archive: How maverick rewilders are trying to turn back the tide of extinction

    Published: 2/28/2024
  2. ‘Farming is a dirty word now’: the woman helping farmers navigate a grim, uncertain future

    Published: 2/26/2024
  3. ‘Ukraine fatigue’: why I’m fighting to stop the world forgetting us

    Published: 2/23/2024
  4. From the archive: Penthouses and poor doors: how Europe’s ‘biggest regeneration project’ fell flat

    Published: 2/21/2024
  5. ‘Scars on every street’: the refugee camp where generations of Palestinians have lost their futures

    Published: 2/19/2024
  6. ‘They were dying, and they’d not had their money’: Britain’s multibillion-pound equal pay scandal

    Published: 2/16/2024
  7. From the archive: The air conditioning trap: how cold air is heating the world

    Published: 2/14/2024
  8. Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: the forgotten genius who changed British food

    Published: 2/12/2024
  9. ‘I repeatedly failed to win any awards’: my doomed career as a North Korean novelist

    Published: 2/9/2024
  10. From the archive: From Lagos to Winchester – how a divisive Nigerian pastor built a global following

    Published: 2/7/2024
  11. ‘Weapons of mass migration’: how states exploit the failure of migration policies

    Published: 2/5/2024
  12. Sanctuary: I grew up during The Troubles and have been seeking a place of peace ever since

    Published: 2/2/2024
  13. From the archive: The bells v the boutique hotel: the battle to save Britain’s oldest factory

    Published: 1/31/2024
  14. One Swedish zoo, seven escaped chimpanzees

    Published: 1/29/2024
  15. Days of the Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business

    Published: 1/26/2024
  16. From the archive: ‘I just needed to find my family’: the scandal of Chile’s stolen children – podcast

    Published: 1/24/2024
  17. We have a tool to stop Israel’s war crimes: BDS

    Published: 1/22/2024
  18. The ghosts haunting China’s cities

    Published: 1/19/2024
  19. From the archive: Inside the bizarre, bungled raid on North Korea’s Madrid embassy

    Published: 1/17/2024
  20. ‘They treated me like an animal’: how Filipino domestic workers become trapped

    Published: 1/15/2024

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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.

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