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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Episodes (375)
From the archive: Alan Yentob: the last impresario
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‘We know what is happening, we cannot walk away’: how the Guardian bore witness...
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The ancient psychedelics myth: ‘People tell tourists the stories they think are...
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From the archive: The lost Jews of Nigeria
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‘We thought we could change the world’: how an idealistic fight against miscarri...
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‘All other avenues have been exhausted’: Is legal action the only way to save th...
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From the archive: Super-prime mover: Britain’s most successful estate agent
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A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the far right
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‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son
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From the archive: What lies beneath: the truth about France’s top serial killer...
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‘Why would he take such a risk?’ How a famous Chinese author befriended his cens...
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The mystery of the nameless girl found dead in a Spanish border town
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From the archive: Food fraud and counterfeit cotton: the detectives untangling t...
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From acid house to ancient rites: Jeremy Deller’s enormous, collaborative, unsel...
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What happens when the US declares war on your parents? The Black Panther Cubs kn...
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From the archive: The last phone boxes: broken glass, cider cans and – amazingly...
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Many life-saving drugs fail for lack of funding. But there’s a solution: despera...
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In search of the South Pacific fugitive who crowned himself king
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From the archive: ‘I pleaded for help. No one wrote back’: the pain of watching...
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The real Scandi noir: how a filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denmark’s s...
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Kahane’s ghost: how a long-dead extremist rabbi continues to haunt Israel’s poli...
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From the archive: The great betrayal: how the Hillsborough families were failed...
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My mother, the racist
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The reluctant collaborator: surviving Syria’s brutal civil war – and its afterma...
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From the archive: Votes for children! Why we should lower the voting age to six
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The Rainham volcano: a waste dump is constantly on fire in east London. Why will...
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It came from outer space: the meteorite that landed in a Cotswolds cul-de-sac
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From the archive: ‘The treeline is out of control’: how the climate crisis is tu...
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Holidays in hell: summer camp with Russia’s forgotten children
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The savage suburbia of Helen Garner: ‘I wanted to dong Martin Amis with a bat’
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From the archive: Is society coming apart?
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The Coventry experiment: why were Indian women in Britain given radioactive food...
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My life as a prison officer: ‘It wasn’t just the smell that hit you. It was the...
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From the archive: The revolt against liberalism: what’s driving Poland and Hunga...
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‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis?
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Turkey said it would become a ‘zero waste’ nation. Instead, it became a dumping...
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From the archive: The end of Atlanticism: has Trump killed the ideology that won...
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Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand?
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‘Here lives the monster’s brain’: the man who exposed Switzerland’s dirty secret...
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From the archive: ‘In my 30 years as a GP, the profession has been horribly erod...
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Massacre in the jungle: how an Indigenous man was made the public face of an atr...
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Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’
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From the archive: One drug dealer, two corrupt cops and a risky FBI sting
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Innit innit boys and Super Eagles: how Nigerian Londoners found their identity t...
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The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise...
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From the archive: Was it inevitable? A short history of Russia’s war on Ukraine
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The loudest megaphone: how Trump mastered our new attention age
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How a young Dutch woman’s life began when she was allowed to die
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From the archive: The knackerman: the toughest job in British farming
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‘Bring me my tariffs’: how Trump’s China plan was 40 years in the making
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