
The Audio Long Read
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.
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From the archive: ‘A nursery of the Commons’: how the Oxford Union created today’s ruling political class
12 hours ago
12 hours ago
29 mins
‘Outdated and unjust’: can we reform global capitalism?
June 23
June 23
34 mins
Extremely loud and incredibly scouse: how Jamie Carragher conquered football punditry
June 20
June 20
46 mins
From the archive: Burying Leni Riefenstahl: one woman’s lifelong crusade against Hitler’s favourite film-maker
June 18
June 18
49 mins
‘You can let go now’: inside the hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain
June 16
June 16
38 mins
An English gentleman, a crooked lawyer: the secrets of Stephen David Jones
June 13
June 13
54 mins
From the archive: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: three days with a giant of African literature
June 11
June 11
59 mins
Death, divorce and the magic of kitchen objects: how to find hope in loss
June 9
June 9
28 mins
Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode 1
June 6
June 6
26 mins
A deadly mission: how Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira tried to warn the world about the Amazon’s destruction
June 5
June 5
30 mins