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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‘Good times and dances might last for ever’: the sound of London’s Black gay scene 2024-03-08
From the archive: ‘A chain of stupidity’: the Skripal case and the decline of Russia’s spy agencies 2024-03-06
What the unrest in Leicester revealed about Britain – and Modi’s India 2024-03-04
The Guardian’s new podcast series about AI: Black Box – prologue 2024-03-02
Precipice of fear: the freerider who took skiing to its limits 2024-03-01
From the archive: How maverick rewilders are trying to turn back the tide of extinction 2024-02-28
‘Farming is a dirty word now’: the woman helping farmers navigate a grim, uncertain future 2024-02-26
‘Ukraine fatigue’: why I’m fighting to stop the world forgetting us 2024-02-23
From the archive: Penthouses and poor doors: how Europe’s ‘biggest regeneration project’ fell flat 2024-02-21
‘Scars on every street’: the refugee camp where generations of Palestinians have lost their futures 2024-02-19
‘They were dying, and they’d not had their money’: Britain’s multibillion-pound equal pay scandal 2024-02-16
From the archive: The air conditioning trap: how cold air is heating the world 2024-02-14
Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: the forgotten genius who changed British food 2024-02-12
‘I repeatedly failed to win any awards’: my doomed career as a North Korean novelist 2024-02-09
From the archive: From Lagos to Winchester – how a divisive Nigerian pastor built a global following 2024-02-07
‘Weapons of mass migration’: how states exploit the failure of migration policies 2024-02-05
Sanctuary: I grew up during The Troubles and have been seeking a place of peace ever since 2024-02-02
From the archive: The bells v the boutique hotel: the battle to save Britain’s oldest factory 2024-01-31
One Swedish zoo, seven escaped chimpanzees 2024-01-29
Days of the Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business 2024-01-26
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