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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Title Date published
A Chinese-born writer’s quest to understand the Vikings, Normans and life on the English coast 2024-09-20
From the archive: The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea 2024-09-18
Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers 2024-09-16
As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel 2024-09-13
From the archive: Death on demand: has euthanasia gone too far? 2024-09-11
‘A diagnosis can sweep away guilt’: the delicate art of treating ADHD 2024-09-09
From the archive – ‘A merry-go-round of buck-passing’: inside the four-year Grenfell inquiry 2024-09-06
From the KKK to the state house: how neo-Nazi David Duke won office 2024-09-04
‘Nobody knows what I know’: how a loyal RSS member abandoned Hindu nationalism 2024-09-02
Best of 2024 … so far: Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history 2024-08-30
‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s 2024-08-26
Best of 2024 … so far: ‘Scars on every street’: the refugee camp where generations of Palestinians have lost their futures 2024-08-23
Food, water, wifi: is this the future of humanitarian aid? 2024-08-19
Best of 2024…so far: ‘They were dying, and they’d not had their money’: Britain’s multibillion-pound equal pay scandal 2024-08-16
My family and other Nazis 2024-08-12
Best of 2024 … so far: Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: the forgotten genius who changed British food 2024-08-09
Revolution in the air: how laughing gas changed the world 2024-08-05
From Nobel peace prize to civil war: how Ethiopia’s leader beguiled the world 2024-08-02
From the archive: From Game of Thrones to The Crown: the woman who turns actors into stars 2024-07-31
Chortle chortle, scribble scribble: inside the Old Bailey with Britain’s last court reporters 2024-07-29
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