The Audio Long Read
Three times a week, The Audio Long Read podcast brings you the Guardian’s exceptional longform journalism in audio form. Covering topics from politics and culture to philosophy and sport, as well as investigations and current affairs.
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‘Lawrence is karma’: the gangster who became an icon of Modi’s India
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From the archive: How western travel influencers got tangled up in Pakistan’s po...
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The impossible promise: are we witnessing the return of fascism?
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‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in th...
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From the archive: No cults, no politics, no ghouls: how China censors the video...
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Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother
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‘Any other child would have died’: the miraculous survival of Nada Itrab
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From the archive: the impossible job: inside the world of Premier League referee...
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Inside China’s robotics revolution
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Endo dreams of sushi: a trip around Japan with one of the world’s greatest chefs
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From the archive: The high cost of living in a disabling world
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Teacher v chatbot: my journey into the classroom in the age of AI
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35,000 pints of stolen Guinness, 950 wheels of pilfered cheese: can the UK’s car...
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From the archive: Foreign mothers, foreign tongues: ‘In another universe, she co...
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How the US far right bought into the myth of white South Africa’s persecution
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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying
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From the archive: Freedom without constraints: how the US squandered its cold wa...
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My maddening battle with chronic fatigue syndrome: ‘On my worst days, it feels a...
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Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong
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From the archive: the butcher’s shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)
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‘I felt betrayed, naked’: did a prize-winning novelist steal a woman’s life stor...
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What was Doge? How Elon Musk tried to gamify government
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From the archive: Are we really prisoners of geography?
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Power without a throne: how Khalifa Haftar controls Libya
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Off Duty: The Crime
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‘The children are not safe here’: the Nigerian couple fighting infanticide
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From the archive: ‘Parents are frightened for themselves and for their children’...
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Access denied: why Muslims worldwide are being ‘debanked’
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Shock, awe, death, joy and looting: how the Guardian covered the outbreak of the...
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From the archive: ‘Iran was our Hogwarts’: my childhood between Tehran and Essex
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‘Pretty birds and silly moos’: the women behind the Sex Discrimination Act
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‘What I see in clinic is never a set of labels’: are we in danger of overdiagnos...
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From the archive: China’s troll king: how a tabloid editor became the voice of C...
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I used to report from the West Bank. Twenty years after my last visit, I was sho...
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Out of the ruins: will Aleppo ever be rebuilt?
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From the archive: Why can’t we agree on what’s true any more?
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A century in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot
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Inside voice: what can our thoughts reveal about the nature of consciousness?
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From the archive: ‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that help e...
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What technology takes from us – and how to take it back
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The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age
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From the archive: Do we need a new theory of evolution?
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Walking into disaster: the narcotrafficking scandal that blew up the BVI
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Trump’s assault on the Smithsonian: ‘The goal is to reframe the entire culture o...
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From the archive: the free speech panic: how the right concocted a crisis
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‘We hate it. It’s desecration’: the real cost of HS2
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Death on the inside: as a prison officer, I saw how the system perpetuates viole...
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From the archive: The King of Kowloon: my search for the cult graffiti prophet o...
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We published explosive stories about the president of El Salvador. Now we can’t...
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‘We were forced to burn bodies’: will survivors of the Tadamon massacres see jus...
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