The Audio Long Read
Un podcast de The Guardian
1029 Épisodes
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The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins
Publié: 21/07/2025 -
Horse racing and erotica: how I survived the fickle world of freelance writing
Publié: 18/07/2025 -
From the archive: The sludge king: how one man turned an industrial wasteland into his own El Dorado
Publié: 16/07/2025 -
Sold to the Trump family: one of the last undeveloped islands in the Mediterranean
Publié: 14/07/2025 -
How does woke start winning again?
Publié: 11/07/2025 -
From the archive: The death of the department store
Publié: 09/07/2025 -
‘Do you have a family?’: midlife with no kids, ageing parents – and no crisis
Publié: 07/07/2025 -
Why does Switzerland have more nuclear bunkers than any other country?
Publié: 04/07/2025 -
From the archive: ‘You can’t be the player’s friend’: inside the secret world of tennis umpires
Publié: 02/07/2025 -
My husband and son suffered strokes, 30 years apart. Shockingly little had changed
Publié: 30/06/2025 -
‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star
Publié: 27/06/2025 -
From the archive: ‘A nursery of the Commons’: how the Oxford Union created today’s ruling political class
Publié: 25/06/2025 -
‘Outdated and unjust’: can we reform global capitalism?
Publié: 23/06/2025 -
Extremely loud and incredibly scouse: how Jamie Carragher conquered football punditry
Publié: 20/06/2025 -
From the archive: Burying Leni Riefenstahl: one woman’s lifelong crusade against Hitler’s favourite film-maker
Publié: 18/06/2025 -
‘You can let go now’: inside the hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain
Publié: 16/06/2025 -
An English gentleman, a crooked lawyer: the secrets of Stephen David Jones
Publié: 13/06/2025 -
From the archive: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: three days with a giant of African literature
Publié: 11/06/2025 -
Death, divorce and the magic of kitchen objects: how to find hope in loss
Publié: 09/06/2025 -
Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode 1
Publié: 06/06/2025
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.
