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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‘I’m good, I promise’: the loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player 2024-07-26
From the archive: ‘As borders closed, I became trapped in my Americanness’: China, the US and me 2024-07-24
‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s libraries provide much more than books 2024-07-22
‘How do I heal?’: the long wait for justice after a black man dies in police custody 2024-07-19
From the archive: The elephant vanishes: how a circus family went on the run 2024-07-17
Dirty waters: how the Environment Agency lost its way 2024-07-15
Inside Mexico’s anti-avocado militias 2024-07-12
From the archive: ‘Colonialism had never really ended’: my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes 2024-07-10
Where the wild things are: the untapped potential of our gardens, parks and balconies 2024-07-08
How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster 2024-07-04
From the archive: Ten ways to confront the climate crisis without losing hope 2024-07-03
‘Natty or not?’: how steroids got big 2024-07-01
Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internationally educated elite 2024-06-28
From the archive: Brazilian butt lift: behind the world’s most dangerous cosmetic surgery 2024-06-26
Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison 2024-06-24
As a teenager, John was jailed for assaulting someone and stealing their bike. That was 17 years ago – will he ever be released? 2024-06-21
From the archive: Can computers ever replace the classroom? 2024-06-19
The man who turned his home into a homeless shelter 2024-06-17
From low-level drug dealer to human trafficker: are modern slavery laws catching the wrong people? 2024-06-14
From the archive: How globalisation has transformed the fight for LGBTQ+ rights 2024-06-12
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