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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Schedule Changes to the Audio Long Read 2023-02-01
‘If you win the popular imagination, you change the game’: why we need new stories on climate 2023-01-30
‘We can’t even get basic care done’: what it’s like doing 12-hour shifts on an understaffed NHS ward 2023-01-27
From the archive – The selling of the Krays: how two mediocre criminals created their own legend 2023-01-25
‘It was a set-up, we were fooled’: the coalmine that ate an Indian village 2023-01-23
The price of ‘sugar free’: are sweeteners as harmless as we thought? 2023-01-20
From the archive: El Chapo: what the rise and fall of the kingpin reveals about the war on drugs 2023-01-18
Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site 2023-01-16
Becoming a chatbot: my life as a real estate AI’s human backup 2023-01-13
From the archive: Who killed the prime minister? The unsolved murder that still haunts Sweden 2023-01-11
‘The Godfather, Saudi-style’: inside the palace coup that brought MBS to power 2023-01-09
‘They want toys to get their children into Harvard’: have we been getting playthings all wrong? 2023-01-06
From the archive: How the ‘rugby rape trial’ divided Ireland 2023-01-04
Iran’s moment of truth: what will it take for the people to topple the regime? 2023-01-02
Best of 2022: ‘Is this justice?’: why Sudan is facing a multibillion-dollar bill for 9/11 2022-12-30
Best of 2022: The amazing true(ish) story of the ‘Honduran Maradona’ 2022-12-26
Best of 2022: ‘Parents are frightened for themselves and for their children’: an inspirational school in impossible times 2022-12-23
Best of 2022: The sludge king: how one man turned an industrial wasteland into his own El Dorado 2022-12-19
Best of 2022: ‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder 2022-12-16
Best of 2022: Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker: the strange case of the Nave Andromeda 2022-12-12
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