The Audio Long Read 

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.

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Title	Date published
From the archive: Divine comedy: the standup double act who turned to the priesthood	2025-10-01
‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?	2025-09-29
Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films?	2025-09-26
From the archive: Forgetting the apocalypse: why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous	2025-09-24
‘The forest had gone’: the storm that moved a mountain	2025-09-22
Life in a ‘sinking nation’: Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land	2025-09-19
From the archive: Sewage sleuths: the men who revealed the slow, dirty death of Welsh and English rivers	2025-09-17
Very British bribery: the whistleblower who exposed the UK’s dodgy arms deals with Saudi Arabia	2025-09-15
‘People pay to be told lies’: the rise and fall of the world’s first ayahuasca multinational	2025-09-12
From the archive: ‘We were all wrong’: how Germany got hooked on Russian energy	2025-09-10
Dancing with Putin: how Austria’s former foreign minister found a new home in Russia	2025-09-08
Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’	2025-09-05
From the archive: ‘We need to break the junk food cycle’: how to fix Britain’s failing food system	2025-09-03
The rise and fall of the British cult that hid in plain sight	2025-09-01
Best of 2025 … so far: ‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star	2025-08-29
Best of 2025 … so far: ‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies?	2025-08-27
The go-between: how Qatar became the global capital of diplomacy	2025-08-25
Best of 2025 … so far: an English gentleman, a crooked lawyer: the secrets of Stephen David Jones	2025-08-22
Best of 2025 … so far: Kahane’s ghost: how a long-dead extremist rabbi continues to haunt Israel’s politics	2025-08-20
Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights?	2025-08-18

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