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
Best of 2025 … so far: The savage suburbia of Helen Garner: ‘I wanted to dong Martin Amis with a bat’	2025-08-15
Best of 2025 … so far: ‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son	2025-08-13
How Pakistan fell in love with sushi	2025-08-11
Best of 2025 … so far: ‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis?	2025-08-08
Best of 2025 … so far: the great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?	2025-08-06
The Shining: my trip to the G7 horror show with Emmanuel Macron	2025-08-04
Are we witnessing the death of international law?	2025-08-01
From the archive: Bicycle graveyards: why do so many bikes end up underwater?	2025-07-30
Poison in the water: the town with the world’s worst case of forever chemicals contamination	2025-07-28
‘A relentless, destructive energy’: inside the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon	2025-07-25
From the archive: how two BBC journalists risked their jobs to reveal the truth about Jimmy Savile	2025-07-23
The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins	2025-07-21
Horse racing and erotica: how I survived the fickle world of freelance writing	2025-07-18
From the archive: The sludge king: how one man turned an industrial wasteland into his own El Dorado	2025-07-16
Sold to the Trump family: one of the last undeveloped islands in the Mediterranean	2025-07-14
How does woke start winning again?	2025-07-11
From the archive: The death of the department store	2025-07-09
‘Do you have a family?’: midlife with no kids, ageing parents – and no crisis	2025-07-07
Why does Switzerland have more nuclear bunkers than any other country?	2025-07-04
From the archive: ‘You can’t be the player’s friend’: inside the secret world of tennis umpires	2025-07-02

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