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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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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Tokyo drift: what happens when a city stops being the future?
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From the archive: The false positives scandal: how thousands of innocent Colombi...
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The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?
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Endless work, little money, occasional UFOs: my father’s five decades driving Br...
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From the archive: How one man spent 34 years in prison after setting fire to a p...
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The man making a business out of China’s burnout generation
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Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub...
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From the archive: Inspired by nature: the thrilling new science that could trans...
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‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tinies...
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Inside the Vatican’s secret saint-making process
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From the archive: ‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown...
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The inspiring scientists who saved the world’s first seed bank
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The ‘mad egghead’ who built a mouse utopia
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From the archive: Cold comfort: how cold water swimming cured my broken heart
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Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother
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The brain collector: the scientist unravelling the mysteries of grey matter
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From the archive: The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine?
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The rollercoaster king: the man behind the UK’s fastest thrill-ride
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Best of 2024: ‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Brit...
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Best of 2024: As a teenager, John was jailed for assaulting someone and stealing...
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Best of 2024: ‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling,...
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Best of 2024: Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internationall...
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Revisited: Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggle...
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10 years of the long read: Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers (2024)
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10 years of the long read: ‘All that we had is gone’: my lament for war-torn Kha...
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A new nuclear arms race is beginning. It will be far more dangerous than the las...
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Revisited: Too much stuff: can we solve our addiction to consumerism?
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The scandal of food waste – and how we can stop it
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‘I couldn’t cry over my children like everyone else’: the tragedy of Palestinian...
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10 years of the long read: Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker: the strang...
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A cool flame: how Gaia theory was born out of a secret love affair
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‘You tried to tell yourself I wasn’t real’: what happens when people with acute...
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10 years of the long read: The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first c...
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The cement company that paid millions to Isis: was Lafarge complicit in crimes a...
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Journalist or Russian spy? The strange case of Pablo González
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10 years of the long read: The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life u...
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Has poppymania gone too far?
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Slash and burn: is private equity out of control?
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10 years of the long read: Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fi...
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Hidden traces of humanity: what AI images reveal about our world
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The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US
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10 years of the long read: Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the...
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‘Places to heal, not to harm’: why brutal prison design kills off hope
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The trial of Björn Höcke, the ‘real boss’ of Germany’s far right
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10 years of the long read: How the sandwich consumed Britain (2017)
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‘For me, there was no other choice’: inside the global illegal organ trade
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How oligarchs took on the UK fraud squad – and won
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