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AJ Longreads brings you the best of Al Jazeera's long-form journalism to listen to in your own time.


Episode Date
How death and despair haunt Pakistan’s Christian minority
Apr 09, 2023
‘Stand-up’ for Ukraine: Coping through comedy in the face of war
Apr 02, 2023
'Dance like there is no tomorrow': Ukraine's wartime music scene
Mar 26, 2023
How Ukrainian-Russian couples are faring after a year of war
Mar 19, 2023
'People want to buy local': The rise of Ukraine's wartime wines
Mar 12, 2023
'Can't go back': How an Afghan girls' school principal fled the Taliban
Mar 05, 2023
‘Books they love’: A Kabul graveyard library for two schoolgirls
Feb 26, 2023
How US abortion organisers are learning from Honduran activists
Feb 19, 2023
A long and lethal legacy: In the shadow of asbestos in the UK
Feb 12, 2023
Cost of living: An Indian waste-picking couple struggle with debt
Feb 05, 2023
Back from extinction: How to resurrect a Tasmanian tiger
Jan 29, 2023
The Ukrainians using embroidery to stand up to Russia
Jan 19, 2023
'We have no one': The women and girls sold as brides in Kashmir
Jan 15, 2023
The deq tattooist: Preserving the ink of a disappearing culture
Jan 08, 2023
Revisit: The woman protecting South Sudan's parks from war and poaching
Jan 01, 2023
Revisit: The Sri Lankan taxi driver reuniting adoptees with their families.
Dec 25, 2022
'Republic of fear': A return to Yemen after 11 years
Dec 18, 2022
The Indian soldier who vanished on a glacier 38 years ago
Dec 11, 2022
‘Justice delayed’ in Texas city where police killed a Black woman
Dec 04, 2022
‘I was desperate’: Young job seekers scammed, abused in Nigeria
Nov 27, 2022
Mohammed Salim: The 'bare-footed Indian' who wowed Celtic
Nov 20, 2022
As climate clock ticks, war in Ukraine upends Arctic research
Nov 13, 2022
Reckoning with genocide in Namibia
Nov 06, 2022
How Holocaust historians are unearthing Ukraine’s present
Oct 30, 2022
The battle over space emissions in Cornwall
Oct 23, 2022
Cost of living: A couple's move from tent to apartment
Oct 16, 2022
Women in war: A psychologist helps Ukrainian soldiers' families
Oct 09, 2022
What the war means for Ukrainians with disabilities
Oct 02, 2022
Love, determination and risking all to cross the Mediterranean
Sep 25, 2022
The teeth makers of Kandahar
Sep 18, 2022
The tiny murder scenes of forensic scientist Frances Glessner Lee
Sep 11, 2022
Treating wounded and sick civilians in western Ukraine
Sep 04, 2022
When 'Z' meant joy, freedom and humour to Russians and Ukrainians
Aug 28, 2022
The deadly virus Nigerians fear more than COVID-19: Lassa fever
Aug 21, 2022
'I'll be sacrificed': The lost and sold daughters of Afghanistan
Aug 14, 2022
Murdered women: Sabina Nessa, ‘a kind and generous soul’
Aug 07, 2022
'Ready for rescue': Saving refugee lives in the Mediterranean Sea
Jul 31, 2022
The Kyiv museum staff who stayed to protect cherished artefacts
Jul 24, 2022
'You’ll get it in your veins': Australia's black-opal miners
Jul 17, 2022
Psychotherapists help Yazidis heal layers of trauma in Iraq
Jul 10, 2022
The Georgian village facing Russian ‘creeping occupation'
Jul 03, 2022
The refugees cast adrift in the Mediterranean
Jun 26, 2022
The mystifying rise of suicide in Pakistan’s Thar Desert
Jun 19, 2022
'A healing journey': Residential school survivors and the Church
Jun 12, 2022
Poland-Belarus border: The people pushed back in a Polish forest
Jun 05, 2022
LGBTQ Ukrainians and Russians find solidarity in Berlin
May 29, 2022
Worlds apart: 24 hours with two refugees in Poland
May 22, 2022
The Hopi farmer championing Indigenous agricultural knowledge
May 15, 2022
The Kenyan mothers fighting to end police brutality
May 08, 2022
The radio show championing justice for abuse victims in Nigeria
May 01, 2022
The woman setting the record straight on Native American history
Apr 24, 2022
Lives derailed: Fleeing Ukraine war destroyed my father’s health
Apr 17, 2022
The Sri Lankan taxi driver reuniting adoptees with their families.
Apr 10, 2022
'Not a quitter': The Karachi doctor taking rapists to court
Apr 03, 2022
In Berlin, a Russian Jewish restaurant rallies behind Ukrainians
Mar 27, 2022
The anti-apartheid fighter empowering women in South Africa
Mar 20, 2022
The woman protecting South Sudan's parks from war and poaching
Mar 13, 2022
Murdered women: Adiba Parveen, the quietest girl in the valley
Mar 06, 2022
Myanmar's 'reluctant' resistance fighter
Feb 27, 2022
Backyard astronomers: Turning stargazing into space-portraiture
Feb 20, 2022
A letter to Australia's immigration minister from a refugee
Feb 13, 2022
Borderlands: fear, uncertainty and life along Ukraine’s frontline
Feb 06, 2022
The oysterman, the pirate and Louisiana's disappearing wetlands
Jan 30, 2022
In Russia, Indigenous land defenders face intimidation and exile
Jan 23, 2022
Revisit: Afghan Interpreters betrayed
Jan 16, 2022
‘The radio station at the heart of an India-GDR friendship’.
Jan 09, 2022
Revisiting 'I was born here, I'll be buried here' In Afghanistan to stay
Jan 01, 2022
Revisiting Nigeria’s unregulated human egg industry
Dec 26, 2021
‘We do the police’s job’
Dec 19, 2021
The Louisiana Indigenous community fighting for hurricane justice
Dec 12, 2021
'Humans are for the grave'
Dec 05, 2021
Horrors on the Plateau
Nov 27, 2021
Canada's 'crying shame': The fields full of children's bones
Nov 21, 2021
The last warrior of Africa's ‘Forgotten Army’
Nov 14, 2021
DR Congo’s gold rush sex trade
Nov 07, 2021
'What we fear as women': Degrees of Abuse
Oct 31, 2021
‘Kill them all, don’t spare anyone’
Oct 24, 2021
Inside Nigeria’s unregulated human egg industry
Oct 17, 2021
Ukrainian soldiers bear the invisible scars of war
Oct 10, 2021
A ‘Jim Crow jury’ prisoner fights for freedom
Oct 03, 2021
Lebanon: What life is like in a ‘failed state’
Sep 26, 2021
Hungry for change: Belgium’s undocumented rally for their rights
Sep 19, 2021
‘Men don’t protect us, they won’t respect us’: Afghan diaries
Sep 12, 2021
‘It’s painful to leave home while it’s burning’: Fleeing Kabul
Sep 05, 2021
The land we came from: My people are my homeland
Aug 29, 2021
'I was born here, I'll be buried here': In Afghanistan to stay
Aug 25, 2021
The mental health costs of Poland’s abortion ban
Aug 22, 2021
The Kashmir village that outlawed dowries
Aug 15, 2021
Death doulas and end-of-life rights: The debate on assisted dying
Aug 08, 2021
Murdered women: A history of ‘honour’ crimes
Jul 31, 2021
Doomed to stay: The dying villages of Mexico’s Lake Cuitzeo
Jul 22, 2021
Vanished: The Plight of three Ethiopian DomesticWorkers in Lebanon
Jul 18, 2021
Anwar Ditta: The Mother Who Took on the British Government and Won.
Jul 11, 2021
Morna: Cape Verde's Music of Displacement and Return
Jul 04, 2021
Tales from a Crematorium
Jun 27, 2021
‘I have sacrificed a lot’: Growing Up Queer in India
Jun 20, 2021
'Betrayed’: The Afghan Interpreters Abandoned by the US
Jun 13, 2021
The Afghan Fathers Braving Beatings to Reach Family in Croatia
Jun 06, 2021
‘I smell it, taste it, feel its heaviness’: Life in Delhi’s Dust
May 30, 2021
Sneakers, California Sun and My Mother’s Other Daughter
May 23, 2021