Audio Long Reads, from the New Statesman
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The New Statesman is the UK's leading politics and culture magazine. Here you can listen to a selection of our very best reported features and essays read aloud. Get immersed in powerful storytelling and narrative journalism from some of the world's best writers. Have your mind opened by influential thinkers on the forces shaping our lives today.
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The UK’s leading romance fraud specialist
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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The great private school con
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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How Rishi Sunak became the first Silicon Valley prime minister
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Israel, Hamas and the unravelling of the West
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Has your AI therapist got your back?
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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How Britain became a dangerous place to have a baby
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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A year inside GB News: "We’re going to disrupt"
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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The philosopher and the crypto king: Sam Bankman-Fried and the effective altruism delusion
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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How Chile (almost) democratised Big Tech
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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The prime minister and the AI that solved the climate crisis
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Summer of Light: a new short story by Jonathan Coe
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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Escaping Eden: life after the Plymouth Brethren
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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In defence of counterfactual history
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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What Simone De Beauvoir knew about loss, by Ali Smith
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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George Monbiot: how I escape climate despair
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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The 1922 committee: inside the Conservatives’ assassination bureau | Audio Long Read
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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How Saudi Arabia is buying the world
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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The Spanish election reveals the future of Europe
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Is male fertility in freefall?
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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What we learned from the Wagner mutiny
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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A warning from the godfathers of AI
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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The risky rise of medical self-diagnosis
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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How did parenthood become an unaffordable luxury?
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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How the rich got richer: welcome to the age of ‘greedflation’
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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Inside the Conservative party’s radical right
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May 27, 2023 |
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‘It’s a state of terror’: inside Haiti’s descent into chaos
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May 20, 2023 |
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Why Liverpool bet big on Eurovision
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May 13, 2023 |
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Inside the mind of King Charles III
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May 06, 2023 |
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The slow, sad death of the print newspaper
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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Xi, Putin and the new world order
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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Confessions of a philosopher: Bryan Magee’s final interview
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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Inside the migrant revival of British Christianity
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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Why Taiwan is already under attack
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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Are we headed for another banking crisis?
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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The long shadow of the Iraq War: how one town honoured Britain’s fallen soldiers
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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The long and stupid decline of the British university
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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The strange death of moderate conservatism
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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Can literature teach us how to grieve?
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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The great housing con: why the coming crash will rewrite the UK economy
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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“Nothing prepares you”: a journey through Ukraine at war
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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Lea Ypi on mothers, the motherland and the cruelties of UK immigration
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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A doctor’s prescription for saving the NHS
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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The good social network: what Twitter could learn from the coffeehouse
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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From the archive: Trotsky in Mexico; Angela Carter on the maternity ward
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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From the archive: when HG Wells met Josef Stalin
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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Then Later, His Ghost: a Christmas story by Sarah Hall
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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Karl Ove Knausgaard: a personal manifesto on the art of fiction
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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A brief history of “woke”: how one word fuelled the culture wars
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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World Prince: what drives Emmanuel Macron’s global ambitions?
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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Are 'Substackademics' the new public intellectuals?
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Nov 26, 2022 |
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Era of the rogue superpower: what Trump’s bid means for the US, Russia and China
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Nov 19, 2022 |
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Margaret Atwood: why I don’t write utopias
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Nov 12, 2022 |
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The ADHD decade: what’s behind the surge in adult diagnoses?
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Nov 05, 2022 |
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Britain after a nuclear attack: the BBC film that shocked a generation
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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Rebecca Solnit on hope, despair and climate action
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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Grayson Perry on the rise and fall of Default Man
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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Grow-your-own steak: seeking a cure for the planet’s meat addiction
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Oct 08, 2022 |
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What drives Liz Truss? The people and ideas behind the PM’s economics
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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The making and meaning of Giorgia Meloni
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Sep 24, 2022 |
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Would there have been climate change under socialism?
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Sep 17, 2022 |
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Queen Elizabeth II and the end of empire
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Sep 10, 2022 |
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What is left of Princess Diana?
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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Archive: I was Joni Mitchell’s “Carey”
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Aug 27, 2022 |
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The battle for the soul of English cricket
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Aug 20, 2022 |
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How the British university degree lost its value
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Aug 13, 2022 |
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Thomas Mann, German identity and the romantic allure of Russia
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Aug 06, 2022 |
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Euro 22: how women’s football became the more beautiful game
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Jul 30, 2022 |
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Boris Johnson: the death of the clown
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Jul 23, 2022 |
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How to grow old in America
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Jul 16, 2022 |
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The lonely decade: how the 1990s shaped us
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Jul 09, 2022 |
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How to build a language: inside the Oxford English Dictionary
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Jul 02, 2022 |
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The psychiatrists who don’t believe in mental illness
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Jun 25, 2022 |
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How does a music writer grieve? With playlists of course
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Jun 18, 2022 |
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The making of Prince William
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Jun 11, 2022 |
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The Belarusian football ultras who took on Alexander Lukashenko
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Jun 04, 2022 |
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Nixon, Trump and the lessons of Watergate
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May 28, 2022 |
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Wrestling with Orwell: Ian McEwan on the art of the political novel
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May 21, 2022 |
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The movie that doesn’t exist (and the fans who think it does)
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May 14, 2022 |
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A year inside GB News: "what the hell have we done?"
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May 07, 2022 |
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Stalin and Putin: a tale of two dictators
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Apr 30, 2022 |
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What does a doctor do?
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Apr 23, 2022 |
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How the trial of the Colston Four was won
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Apr 16, 2022 |
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Travelling through Macron’s France, from the Channel to the Mediterranean
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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Operation Warm Welcome: the hotel that became home to 100 refugees
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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Big Tech and the quest for eternal youth
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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I was Joni Mitchell’s “Carey”: an interview with Cary Raditz
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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Trailer: Audio Long Reads, from the New Statesman
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Apr 01, 2022 |