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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10 years of the long read: Man v rat: could the long war soon be over? (2016)
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Morality and rules, and how to avoid drowning: what my daughters learned at scho...
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The shapeshifter: who is the real Giorgia Meloni?
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10 years of the long read: Farewell to America (2015)
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The cocaine kingpin’s wildest legacy: what can be done with Pablo Escobar’s mara...
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‘Like a cheese grater raking across my nipple’: why I kept trying to breastfeed...
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10 years of the long read: Is this the end of Britishness? (2014)
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Special Edition: 10 years of the Guardian Long Read
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Strange and wondrous creatures: plankton and the origins of life on Earth
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No god in the machine: the pitfalls of AI worship
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From the archive: The unravelling of a conspiracy: were the 16 charged with plot...
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On board the Creed cruise: the unfathomable return of the ‘worst band of the 90s...
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A Chinese-born writer’s quest to understand the Vikings, Normans and life on the...
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From the archive: The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous id...
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Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers
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As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my...
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From the archive: Death on demand: has euthanasia gone too far?
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‘A diagnosis can sweep away guilt’: the delicate art of treating ADHD
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From the archive – ‘A merry-go-round of buck-passing’: inside the four-year Gren...
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From the KKK to the state house: how neo-Nazi David Duke won office
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‘Nobody knows what I know’: how a loyal RSS member abandoned Hindu nationalism
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Best of 2024 … so far: Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science...
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‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife...
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Best of 2024 … so far: ‘Scars on every street’: the refugee camp where generatio...
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Food, water, wifi: is this the future of humanitarian aid?
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Best of 2024…so far: ‘They were dying, and they’d not had their money’: Britain’...
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My family and other Nazis
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Best of 2024 … so far: Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: the forgotten genius who...
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Revolution in the air: how laughing gas changed the world
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From Nobel peace prize to civil war: how Ethiopia’s leader beguiled the world
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From the archive: From Game of Thrones to The Crown: the woman who turns actors...
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Chortle chortle, scribble scribble: inside the Old Bailey with Britain’s last co...
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‘I’m good, I promise’: the loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player
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From the archive: ‘As borders closed, I became trapped in my Americanness’: Chin...
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‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s librarie...
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‘How do I heal?’: the long wait for justice after a black man dies in police cus...
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From the archive: The elephant vanishes: how a circus family went on the run
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Dirty waters: how the Environment Agency lost its way
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Inside Mexico’s anti-avocado militias
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From the archive: ‘Colonialism had never really ended’: my life in the shadow of...
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Where the wild things are: the untapped potential of our gardens, parks and balc...
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How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster
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From the archive: Ten ways to confront the climate crisis without losing hope
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‘Natty or not?’: how steroids got big
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Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internationally educated eli...
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From the archive: Brazilian butt lift: behind the world’s most dangerous cosmeti...
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Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writi...
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As a teenager, John was jailed for assaulting someone and stealing their bike. T...
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From the archive: Can computers ever replace the classroom?
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The man who turned his home into a homeless shelter
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