The Audio Long Read
A podcast by The Guardian
1025 Episodes
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The joys of being an absolute beginner ... for life
Published: 1/29/2021 -
From the archive: Why did two parents murder their adopted child?
Published: 1/27/2021 -
How Julia Donaldson conquered the world, one rhyme at a time
Published: 1/25/2021 -
Super cubes: inside the (surprisingly) big business of packaged ice
Published: 1/22/2021 -
From the archive: Killer, kleptocrat, genius, spy: the many myths of Vladimir Putin
Published: 1/20/2021 -
Trump's defeat and the death throes of the Civil War
Published: 1/18/2021 -
'Singing and dancing to their deaths': football’s forgotten tragedy
Published: 1/15/2021 -
From the archives: Total recall: the people who never forget
Published: 1/13/2021 -
The curse of 'white oil': electric vehicles' dirty secret
Published: 1/11/2021 -
'I just want to see the person I always saw in my head': the story of a face
Published: 1/8/2021 -
From the archives: Why we fell for clean eating
Published: 1/6/2021 -
How to be entitled: can Debrett’s help outsiders join Britain’s elite?
Published: 1/4/2021 -
A Christmas message – audio long reads
Published: 12/25/2020 -
From the archives: Fifa: the video game that changed football
Published: 12/23/2020 -
The mystery of the Gatwick drone
Published: 12/21/2020 -
'A peculiarly English epic': the weird genius of The Archers
Published: 12/18/2020 -
From the archive: Why time management is ruining our lives
Published: 12/17/2020 -
'Is anybody in there?' Life on the inside as a locked-in patient
Published: 12/14/2020 -
From the archives: How statistics lost their power – and why we should fear what comes next
Published: 12/9/2020 -
The ‘false positives’ scandal that felled Colombia’s military hero
Published: 12/7/2020
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.