The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

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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.

300 episodes • 0 archived •

Introducing Black Box: The Chatbots

Yesterday

39 mins

The body snatchers: how a young Nigerian man was lured to London in an organ-trafficking plot

September 4

36 mins

From the archive: ‘Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic’

September 2

37 mins

‘I can sense Sinatra enter my body and exit my lungs’: aboard the celebrity impersonators’ cruise

August 31

35 mins

Best of 2026…so far: ‘Any other child would have died’: the miraculous survival of Nada Itrab

August 28

51 mins

Best of 2026…so far: Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong

August 26

39 mins

‘The war leaked into every lesson’: learning Ukrainian in a country under siege

August 24

40 mins

Best of 2026 … so far: Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother

August 21

50 mins

Best of 2026 … so far: Asian mothers, bad feelings: notes on an all-conquering stereotype

August 19

34 mins

Iraq’s impossible predicament: why the country is trapped between Iran and the US

August 17

25 mins

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