The Audio Long Read

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The Audio Long Read podcast is a selection of the Guardian’s long reads, giving you the opportunity to get on with your day while listening to some of the finest longform journalism the Guardian has to offer, including in-depth writing from around the world on current affairs, climate change, global warming, immigration, crime, business, the arts and much more. The podcast explores a range of subjects and news across business, global politics (including Trump, Israel, Palestine and Gaza), money, philosophy, science, internet culture, modern life, war, climate change, current affairs, music and trends, and seeks to answer key questions around them through in depth interviews explainers, and analysis with quality Guardian reporting. Through first person accounts, narrative audio storytelling and investigative reporting, the Audio Long Read seeks to dive deep, debunk myths and uncover hidden histories. In previous episodes we have asked questions like: do we need a new theory of evolution? Whether Trump can win the US presidency or not? Why can't we stop quantifying our lives? Why have our nuclear fears faded? Why do so many bikes end up underwater? How did Germany get hooked on Russian energy? Are we all prisoners of geography? How was London's Olympic legacy sold out? Who owns Einstein? Is free will an illusion? What lies beghind the Arctic's Indigenous suicide crisis? What is the mystery of India's deadly exam scam? Who is the man who built his own cathedral? And, how did the world get hooked on palm oil? Other topics range from: history including empire to politics, conflict, Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Gaza, philosophy, science, psychology, health and finance. Audio Long Read journalists include Samira Shackle, Tom Lamont, Sophie Elmhirst, Samanth Subramanian, Imogen West-Knights, Sirin Kale, Daniel Trilling and Giles Tremlett.

Episode Date
Best of 2024: ‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s
Dec 20, 2024
Best of 2024: Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internationally educated elite
Dec 16, 2024
Revisited: Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison
Dec 13, 2024
10 years of the long read: Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers (2024)
Dec 11, 2024
10 years of the long read: ‘All that we had is gone’: my lament for war-torn Khartoum (2023)
Dec 09, 2024
A new nuclear arms race is beginning. It will be far more dangerous than the last one
Dec 06, 2024
Revisited: Too much stuff: can we solve our addiction to consumerism?
Dec 04, 2024
The scandal of food waste – and how we can stop it
Dec 02, 2024
‘I couldn’t cry over my children like everyone else’: the tragedy of Palestinian journalist Wael al-Dahdouh
Nov 29, 2024
10 years of the long read: Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker: the strange case of the Nave Andromeda (2022)
Nov 27, 2024
A cool flame: how Gaia theory was born out of a secret love affair
Nov 25, 2024
‘You tried to tell yourself I wasn’t real’: what happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?
Nov 22, 2024
10 years of the long read: The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship (2021)
Nov 20, 2024
The cement company that paid millions to Isis: was Lafarge complicit in crimes against humanity?
Nov 18, 2024
Journalist or Russian spy? The strange case of Pablo González
Nov 15, 2024
10 years of the long read: The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life underground (2020)
Nov 13, 2024
Has poppymania gone too far?
Nov 11, 2024
Slash and burn: is private equity out of control?
Nov 08, 2024
10 years of the long read: Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands (2019)
Nov 06, 2024
Hidden traces of humanity: what AI images reveal about our world
Nov 04, 2024
The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US
Nov 01, 2024
10 years of the long read: Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand (2018)
Oct 30, 2024
‘Places to heal, not to harm’: why brutal prison design kills off hope
Oct 28, 2024
The trial of Björn Höcke, the ‘real boss’ of Germany’s far right
Oct 25, 2024
10 years of the long read: How the sandwich consumed Britain (2017)
Oct 23, 2024
‘For me, there was no other choice’: inside the global illegal organ trade
Oct 21, 2024
How oligarchs took on the UK fraud squad – and won
Oct 18, 2024
10 years of the long read: Man v rat: could the long war soon be over? (2016)
Oct 16, 2024
Morality and rules, and how to avoid drowning: what my daughters learned at school in China
Oct 14, 2024
The shapeshifter: who is the real Giorgia Meloni?
Oct 11, 2024
10 years of the long read: Farewell to America (2015)
Oct 09, 2024
The cocaine kingpin’s wildest legacy: what can be done with Pablo Escobar’s marauding hippos?
Oct 07, 2024
‘Like a cheese grater raking across my nipple’: why I kept trying to breastfeed for so long
Oct 04, 2024
10 years of the long read: Is this the end of Britishness? (2014)
Oct 02, 2024
Special Edition: 10 years of the Guardian Long Read
Oct 01, 2024
Strange and wondrous creatures: plankton and the origins of life on Earth
Sep 30, 2024
No god in the machine: the pitfalls of AI worship
Sep 27, 2024
From the archive: The unravelling of a conspiracy: were the 16 charged with plotting to kill India’s prime minister framed?
Sep 25, 2024
On board the Creed cruise: the unfathomable return of the ‘worst band of the 90s’
Sep 23, 2024
A Chinese-born writer’s quest to understand the Vikings, Normans and life on the English coast
Sep 20, 2024
From the archive: The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea
Sep 18, 2024
Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers
Sep 16, 2024
As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel
Sep 13, 2024
From the archive: Death on demand: has euthanasia gone too far?
Sep 11, 2024
‘A diagnosis can sweep away guilt’: the delicate art of treating ADHD
Sep 09, 2024
From the archive – ‘A merry-go-round of buck-passing’: inside the four-year Grenfell inquiry
Sep 06, 2024
From the KKK to the state house: how neo-Nazi David Duke won office
Sep 04, 2024
‘Nobody knows what I know’: how a loyal RSS member abandoned Hindu nationalism
Sep 02, 2024
Best of 2024 … so far: Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history
Aug 30, 2024
‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s
Aug 26, 2024
Best of 2024 … so far: ‘Scars on every street’: the refugee camp where generations of Palestinians have lost their futures
Aug 23, 2024
Food, water, wifi: is this the future of humanitarian aid?
Aug 19, 2024
Best of 2024…so far: ‘They were dying, and they’d not had their money’: Britain’s multibillion-pound equal pay scandal
Aug 16, 2024
My family and other Nazis
Aug 12, 2024
Best of 2024 … so far: Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: the forgotten genius who changed British food
Aug 09, 2024
Revolution in the air: how laughing gas changed the world
Aug 05, 2024
From Nobel peace prize to civil war: how Ethiopia’s leader beguiled the world
Aug 02, 2024
From the archive: From Game of Thrones to The Crown: the woman who turns actors into stars
Jul 31, 2024
Chortle chortle, scribble scribble: inside the Old Bailey with Britain’s last court reporters
Jul 29, 2024
‘I’m good, I promise’: the loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player
Jul 26, 2024
From the archive: ‘As borders closed, I became trapped in my Americanness’: China, the US and me
Jul 24, 2024
‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s libraries provide much more than books
Jul 22, 2024
‘How do I heal?’: the long wait for justice after a black man dies in police custody
Jul 19, 2024
From the archive: The elephant vanishes: how a circus family went on the run
Jul 17, 2024
Dirty waters: how the Environment Agency lost its way
Jul 15, 2024
Inside Mexico’s anti-avocado militias
Jul 12, 2024
From the archive: ‘Colonialism had never really ended’: my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes
Jul 10, 2024
Where the wild things are: the untapped potential of our gardens, parks and balconies
Jul 08, 2024
How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster
Jul 04, 2024
From the archive: Ten ways to confront the climate crisis without losing hope
Jul 03, 2024
‘Natty or not?’: how steroids got big
Jul 01, 2024
Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internationally educated elite
Jun 28, 2024
From the archive: Brazilian butt lift: behind the world’s most dangerous cosmetic surgery
Jun 26, 2024
Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison
Jun 24, 2024
As a teenager, John was jailed for assaulting someone and stealing their bike. That was 17 years ago – will he ever be released?
Jun 21, 2024
From the archive: Can computers ever replace the classroom?
Jun 19, 2024
The man who turned his home into a homeless shelter
Jun 17, 2024
From low-level drug dealer to human trafficker: are modern slavery laws catching the wrong people?
Jun 14, 2024
From the archive: How globalisation has transformed the fight for LGBTQ+ rights
Jun 12, 2024
‘Ryan Reynolds never had to deal with this’: the slow death and (possible) rebirth of Southend United
Jun 10, 2024
César Aira’s unreal magic: how the eccentric author took over Latin American literature
Jun 07, 2024
From the archive: ‘The Silicon Valley of turf’: how the UK’s pursuit of the perfect pitch changed football
Jun 05, 2024
Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy?
Jun 03, 2024
‘I’ll stay an MP for as long as I can’: Diane Abbott’s tumultuous political journey
May 31, 2024
From the archive: The secret deportations: how Britain betrayed the Chinese men who served the country in the war
May 29, 2024
‘He likes scaring people’: how Modi’s right-hand man, Amit Shah, runs India
May 27, 2024
Guatemala’s baby brokers: how thousands of children were stolen for adoption
May 24, 2024
From the archive: Trump’s useful thugs: how the Republican party offered a home to the Proud Boys
May 22, 2024
After I was assaulted, I posted a photo of my injuries. The reaction I craved was not pity, but anger
May 20, 2024
‘Super cute please like’: the unstoppable rise of Shein
May 17, 2024
From the archive: The evolution of Steve Albini: ‘If the dumbest person is on your side, you’re on the wrong side’
May 15, 2024
‘A new abyss’: Gaza and the hundred years’ war on Palestine
May 13, 2024
The true cost of El Salvador’s new gold rush
May 10, 2024
From the archive: The age of perpetual crisis – how the 2010s disrupted everything but resolved nothing
May 08, 2024
How child labour in India makes the paving stones beneath our feet
May 06, 2024
Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history
May 03, 2024
From the archive: The battle over dyslexia
May 01, 2024
The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’
Apr 29, 2024
Solidarity and strategy: the forgotten lessons of truly effective protest
Apr 26, 2024
From the archive: How Hindu supremacists are tearing India apart
Apr 24, 2024
What is the real Hamas?
Apr 22, 2024
A historic revolt, a forgotten hero, an empty plinth: is there a right way to remember slavery?
Apr 19, 2024
From the archive: Did Brazil’s evangelical superstar have her husband killed?
Apr 17, 2024
Rage, waste and corruption: how Covid changed politics
Apr 15, 2024
Disappearing tongues: the endangered language crisis
Apr 12, 2024
From the archive: The mystery of the Gatwick drone
Apr 10, 2024
‘What’s the worst that could happen?’: Love in the sickle cell capital of the world
Apr 08, 2024
Radioactive waste, baby bottles and Spam: the deep ocean has become a dumping ground
Apr 05, 2024
From the archive – Out of thin air: the mystery of the man who fell from the sky
Apr 03, 2024
200 cats, 200 dogs, one lab: the secrets of the pet food industry
Apr 01, 2024
Power grab: the hidden costs of Ireland’s datacentre boom
Mar 29, 2024
From the archive: ‘Is anybody in there?’ Life on the inside as a locked-in patient
Mar 27, 2024
‘It was so wrong’: why were so many people imprisoned over one protest in Bristol?
Mar 25, 2024
What we talk about when we talk about giving up
Mar 22, 2024
From the archive – Operation Condor: the cold war conspiracy that terrorised South America
Mar 20, 2024
The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same
Mar 18, 2024
Electric mountain: the power station that shows the beauty of infrastructure
Mar 15, 2024
From the archive: How western travel influencers got tangled up in Pakistan’s politics
Mar 13, 2024
‘Can I now send the funds?’: secrets of the Conservative money machine
Mar 11, 2024
‘Good times and dances might last for ever’: the sound of London’s Black gay scene
Mar 08, 2024
From the archive: ‘A chain of stupidity’: the Skripal case and the decline of Russia’s spy agencies
Mar 06, 2024
What the unrest in Leicester revealed about Britain – and Modi’s India
Mar 04, 2024
The Guardian’s new podcast series about AI: Black Box – prologue
Mar 02, 2024
Precipice of fear: the freerider who took skiing to its limits
Mar 01, 2024
From the archive: How maverick rewilders are trying to turn back the tide of extinction
Feb 28, 2024
‘Farming is a dirty word now’: the woman helping farmers navigate a grim, uncertain future
Feb 26, 2024
‘Ukraine fatigue’: why I’m fighting to stop the world forgetting us
Feb 23, 2024
From the archive: Penthouses and poor doors: how Europe’s ‘biggest regeneration project’ fell flat
Feb 21, 2024
‘Scars on every street’: the refugee camp where generations of Palestinians have lost their futures
Feb 19, 2024
‘They were dying, and they’d not had their money’: Britain’s multibillion-pound equal pay scandal
Feb 16, 2024
From the archive: The air conditioning trap: how cold air is heating the world
Feb 14, 2024
Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: the forgotten genius who changed British food
Feb 12, 2024
‘I repeatedly failed to win any awards’: my doomed career as a North Korean novelist
Feb 09, 2024
From the archive: From Lagos to Winchester – how a divisive Nigerian pastor built a global following
Feb 07, 2024
‘Weapons of mass migration’: how states exploit the failure of migration policies
Feb 05, 2024
Sanctuary: I grew up during The Troubles and have been seeking a place of peace ever since
Feb 02, 2024
From the archive: The bells v the boutique hotel: the battle to save Britain’s oldest factory
Jan 31, 2024
One Swedish zoo, seven escaped chimpanzees
Jan 29, 2024
Days of the Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business
Jan 26, 2024
From the archive: ‘I just needed to find my family’: the scandal of Chile’s stolen children – podcast
Jan 24, 2024
We have a tool to stop Israel’s war crimes: BDS
Jan 22, 2024
The ghosts haunting China’s cities
Jan 19, 2024
From the archive: Inside the bizarre, bungled raid on North Korea’s Madrid embassy
Jan 17, 2024
‘They treated me like an animal’: how Filipino domestic workers become trapped
Jan 15, 2024
America’s undying empire: why the decline of US power has been greatly exaggerated
Jan 12, 2024
From the archive: How Nespresso’s coffee revolution got ground down
Jan 10, 2024
Four bike rides, four years in the life of Black Britain: ‘On the road, we found ourselves again’
Jan 08, 2024
Too much stuff: can we solve our addiction to consumerism?
Jan 05, 2024
From the archive: Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze
Jan 03, 2024
Last love: a romance in a care home
Jan 01, 2024
Best of 2023: The widow and the murderer: a friendship born of tragedy
Dec 29, 2023
Best of 2023: No coach, no agent, no ego: the incredible story of the ‘Lionel Messi of cliff diving’
Dec 25, 2023
Best of 2023: The strange survival of Guinness World Records
Dec 22, 2023
Best of 2023: Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site
Dec 18, 2023
Best of 2023: Proust, ChatGPT and the case of the forgotten quote
Dec 15, 2023
Best of 2023: Dark waters: how the adventure of a lifetime turned to tragedy
Dec 11, 2023
Nitrogen wars: the Dutch farmers’ revolt that turned a nation upside-down
Dec 08, 2023
From the archive: The rise and fall of French cuisine
Dec 06, 2023
‘I remember the silence between the falling shells’: the terror of living under siege as a child
Dec 04, 2023
A violent murder, a child on death row
Dec 01, 2023
From the archive: ‘We the people’: the battle to define populism
Nov 29, 2023
The Netanyahu doctrine: how Israel’s longest-serving leader reshaped the country in his image
Nov 27, 2023
Chainsaws, disguises and toxic tea: the battle for Sheffield’s trees
Nov 24, 2023
From the archive: How the murders of two elderly Jewish women shook France
Nov 22, 2023
‘I stopped counting how many friends died’: life after the contaminated blood scandal
Nov 20, 2023
Inside the Taliban’s luxury hotel
Nov 17, 2023
Special Edition: Behind the scenes at the Long Read
Nov 15, 2023
The mass protest decade: why did the street movements of the 2010s fail?
Nov 13, 2023
‘Incoherence and inconsistency’: the inside story of the Rwanda deportation plan
Nov 10, 2023
From the archive: The last of the Zoroastrians
Nov 08, 2023
The insider: how Michael Lewis got a backstage pass for the fall of Sam Bankman-Fried
Nov 06, 2023
‘We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world
Nov 03, 2023
From the archive: What I have learned from my suicidal patients
Nov 01, 2023
The trials of Robert Habeck: is the world’s most powerful green politician doomed to fail?
Oct 30, 2023
‘A hidden universe of suffering’: the Palestinian children sent to jail
Oct 27, 2023
From the archive: ‘In our teens, we dreamed of making peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Then my friend was shot’
Oct 25, 2023
‘You may have been poisoned’: how an independent Russian journalist became a target
Oct 23, 2023
Justice for Neanderthals! What the debate about our long-dead cousins reveals about us
Oct 20, 2023
From the archive: Cholera and coronavirus: why we must not repeat the same mistakes
Oct 18, 2023
‘Our health data is about to flow more freely, like it or not’: big tech’s plans for the NHS
Oct 16, 2023
The widow and the murderer: a friendship born of tragedy
Oct 13, 2023
From the archive: Was the Millennium Dome really so bad? The inside story of a (not so) total disaster
Oct 11, 2023
The Melilla massacre: how a Spanish enclave in Africa became a deadly flashpoint
Oct 09, 2023
‘A huge heart’: the insatiable activism of Zimbabwean exile Patson Muzuwa
Oct 05, 2023
From the archive: ‘A body drifted past the window’: surviving the Ladbroke Grove train crash
Oct 04, 2023
Empire of dust: what the tiniest specks reveal about the world
Oct 02, 2023
‘The Eurocentric fallacy’: the myths that underpin European identity
Sep 29, 2023
From the archive: ‘Mama Boko Haram’: one woman’s extraordinary mission to rescue ‘her boys’ from terrorism
Sep 27, 2023
‘Voters are unhappier with the NHS than they’ve been for 30 years. As a GP, I feel the same’
Sep 25, 2023
Proust, ChatGPT and the case of the forgotten quote
Sep 22, 2023
From the archive: The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life underground
Sep 20, 2023
The evolution of Steve Albini: ‘If the dumbest person is on your side, you’re on the wrong side’
Sep 18, 2023
‘Move forward. Flap around a little!’ How learning to swim in my 50s set me free
Sep 15, 2023
From the archive: A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel
Sep 13, 2023
‘Ruzzki not welcome’: the Russian exiles getting a hostile reception in Georgia
Sep 11, 2023
The aftermath: how the Beirut explosion has left scars on an already broken Lebanon
Sep 08, 2023
From the archive: Golden Dawn: the rise and fall of Greece’s neo-Nazis
Sep 06, 2023
‘If I left, I’d have to go without a word’: how I escaped China’s mass arrests
Sep 04, 2023
Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI
Sep 01, 2023
The Balkans’ alternative postal system: an ad-hoc courier’s tale
Aug 28, 2023
Best of 2023 … so far: How Deborah Levy can change your life
Aug 25, 2023
‘All that we had is gone’: my lament for war-torn Khartoum
Aug 21, 2023
Best of 2023… so far: The trials of an Indian witness: how a Muslim man was caught in a legal nightmare
Aug 18, 2023
A funeral for fish and chips: why are Britain’s chippies disappearing?
Aug 14, 2023
Best of 2023… so far: ‘I know where the bodies are buried’: one woman’s mission to change how the police investigate rape
Aug 11, 2023
How hip-hop gave voice to a generation of Egyptians hungry for change
Aug 07, 2023
Best of 2023 … so far: Battle of the botanic garden: the horticulture war roiling the Isle of Wight
Aug 04, 2023
Victoria Amelina: Ukraine and the meaning of home
Jul 31, 2023
‘People are like, Wow!’: the man trying to make condoms sexy
Jul 28, 2023
From the archive: Bring up the bodies: the retired couple who find drowning victims
Jul 26, 2023
How to reduce the damage done by gentrification
Jul 24, 2023
‘You reach a point where you can’t live your life’: what is behind extreme hoarding?
Jul 21, 2023
From the archive: Tampon wars: the battle to overthrow the Tampax empire
Jul 19, 2023
How Ukraine’s national dish became a symbol of Putin’s invasion
Jul 17, 2023
‘Why I might have done what I did’: conversations with Ireland’s most notorious murderer
Jul 14, 2023
From the archive: Life after deportation: ‘No one tells you how lonely you’re going to be’
Jul 12, 2023
‘Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic’
Jul 10, 2023
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: three days with a giant of African literature
Jul 07, 2023
From the archive: A 975-day nightmare: how the Home Office forced a British citizen into destitution abroad
Jul 05, 2023
The planet’s economist: has Kate Raworth found a model for sustainable living?
Jul 03, 2023
‘I knew the terror of lost time’: how my father’s dementia echoed my own alcoholism
Jun 30, 2023
From the archive: Party and protest: the radical history of gay liberation, Stonewall and Pride
Jun 28, 2023
The backlash: how slavery research came under fire
Jun 26, 2023
Can humans ever understand how animals think?
Jun 23, 2023
From the archive: History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future
Jun 21, 2023
The strange survival of Guinness World Records
Jun 19, 2023
Out of our minds: opium’s part in imperial history
Jun 16, 2023
From the archive: The great American tax haven: why the super-rich love South Dakota
Jun 14, 2023
The rubbishscapes of Essex: why our buried trash is back to haunt us
Jun 12, 2023
Dark waters: how the adventure of a lifetime turned to tragedy
Jun 09, 2023
From the archive: How Hong Kong caught fire: the story of a radical uprising
Jun 07, 2023
The war on Japanese knotweed
Jun 05, 2023
Erdogan’s earthquake: how years of bad government made a disaster worse
Jun 02, 2023
From the archive: The man in the iron lung
May 31, 2023
On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer in the world
May 29, 2023
The dark universe: can a scientist battling long Covid unlock the mysteries of the cosmos?
May 26, 2023
From the archive: Splendid isolation: how I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours
May 24, 2023
How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking
May 22, 2023
‘I feel like I’m selling my soul’: inside the crisis at Juventus
May 19, 2023
From the archive: How ultra-processed food took over your shopping basket
May 17, 2023
Sleeping beauties: the evolutionary innovations that wait millions of years to come good
May 15, 2023
Sudan’s outsider: how a paramilitary leader fell out with the army and plunged the country into war
May 12, 2023
From the archive: Cod wars to food banks: how a Lancashire fishing town is hanging on
May 10, 2023
Are coincidences real?
May 08, 2023
‘The torture’s real. The time I did was real’: the Belfast man waterboarded by the British army
May 05, 2023
From the archive: Are your tinned tomatoes picked by slave labour?
May 03, 2023
Will flying ever be green?
May 01, 2023
How Deborah Levy can change your life
Apr 28, 2023
From the archive: My four miscarriages: why is losing a pregnancy so shrouded in mystery?
Apr 26, 2023
Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times
Apr 24, 2023
The impossible job: inside the world of Premier League referees
Apr 21, 2023
From the archive: The race to create a perfect lie detector, and the dangers of succeeding
Apr 19, 2023
Three abandoned children, two missing parents and a 40-year mystery
Apr 17, 2023
The Ciskei experiment: a libertarian fantasy in apartheid South Africa
Apr 14, 2023
From the archive – The sound of icebergs melting: my journey into the Antarctic
Apr 12, 2023
‘They robbed me of my children’: Yemen’s war victims tell their stories
Apr 10, 2023
The stupidity of AI
Apr 07, 2023
From the archive – The girl in the box: the mysterious crime that shocked Germany
Apr 05, 2023
The disabled villain: why sensitivity reading can’t kill off this ugly trope
Apr 03, 2023
Foreign mothers, foreign tongues: ‘In another universe, she could have been my friend’
Mar 31, 2023
From the archive: Why do people hate vegans?
Mar 29, 2023
The trials of an Indian witness: how a Muslim man was caught in a legal nightmare
Mar 27, 2023
‘I know where the bodies are buried’: one woman’s mission to change how the police investigate rape
Mar 24, 2023
From the archive: Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands
Mar 22, 2023
Baghdad memories: what the first few months of the US occupation felt like to an Iraqi
Mar 20, 2023
Dinner with Proust: how Alzheimer’s caregivers are pulled into their patients’ worlds
Mar 17, 2023
From the archive: How the MoD’s plan to privatise military housing ended in disaster
Mar 15, 2023
‘One billionaire at a time’: inside the Swiss clinics where the super-rich go for rehab
Mar 13, 2023
From the archive: The real David Attenborough
Mar 10, 2023
No coach, no agent, no ego: the incredible story of the ‘Lionel Messi of cliff diving’
Mar 06, 2023
From the archive: Fifty shades of white: the long fight against racism in romance novels
Mar 03, 2023
Portrait of a killer: art class in one of Mexico’s most notorious prisons
Feb 27, 2023
From the archive: Welcome to the land that no country wants
Feb 24, 2023
Can a mass shooter demand a good death? The strange case that tested the limits of justice
Feb 20, 2023
From the archive: Snow machines and fleece blankets: inside the ski industry’s battle with climate change
Feb 17, 2023
Battle of the botanic garden: the horticulture war roiling the Isle of Wight
Feb 13, 2023
From the archive: Can the greatest darts player of all time step away from the game that made him?
Feb 10, 2023
A tragedy pushed to the shadows: the truth about China’s Cultural Revolution
Feb 06, 2023
From the archive: Where oil rigs go to die
Feb 03, 2023
Schedule Changes to the Audio Long Read
Feb 01, 2023
‘If you win the popular imagination, you change the game’: why we need new stories on climate
Jan 30, 2023
‘We can’t even get basic care done’: what it’s like doing 12-hour shifts on an understaffed NHS ward
Jan 27, 2023
From the archive – The selling of the Krays: how two mediocre criminals created their own legend
Jan 25, 2023
‘It was a set-up, we were fooled’: the coalmine that ate an Indian village
Jan 23, 2023
The price of ‘sugar free’: are sweeteners as harmless as we thought?
Jan 20, 2023
From the archive: El Chapo: what the rise and fall of the kingpin reveals about the war on drugs
Jan 18, 2023
Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site
Jan 16, 2023
Becoming a chatbot: my life as a real estate AI’s human backup
Jan 13, 2023
From the archive: Who killed the prime minister? The unsolved murder that still haunts Sweden
Jan 11, 2023
‘The Godfather, Saudi-style’: inside the palace coup that brought MBS to power
Jan 09, 2023
‘They want toys to get their children into Harvard’: have we been getting playthings all wrong?
Jan 06, 2023
From the archive: How the ‘rugby rape trial’ divided Ireland
Jan 04, 2023
Iran’s moment of truth: what will it take for the people to topple the regime?
Jan 02, 2023
Best of 2022: ‘Is this justice?’: why Sudan is facing a multibillion-dollar bill for 9/11
Dec 30, 2022
Best of 2022: The amazing true(ish) story of the ‘Honduran Maradona’
Dec 26, 2022
Best of 2022: ‘Parents are frightened for themselves and for their children’: an inspirational school in impossible times
Dec 23, 2022
Best of 2022: The sludge king: how one man turned an industrial wasteland into his own El Dorado
Dec 19, 2022
Best of 2022: ‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder
Dec 16, 2022
Best of 2022: Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker: the strange case of the Nave Andromeda
Dec 12, 2022
The many meanings of moss
Dec 09, 2022