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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‘Our health data is about to flow more freely, like it or not’: big tech’s plans for the NHS 2023-10-16
The widow and the murderer: a friendship born of tragedy 2023-10-13
From the archive: Was the Millennium Dome really so bad? The inside story of a (not so) total disaster 2023-10-11
The Melilla massacre: how a Spanish enclave in Africa became a deadly flashpoint 2023-10-09
‘A huge heart’: the insatiable activism of Zimbabwean exile Patson Muzuwa 2023-10-05
From the archive: ‘A body drifted past the window’: surviving the Ladbroke Grove train crash 2023-10-04
Empire of dust: what the tiniest specks reveal about the world 2023-10-02
‘The Eurocentric fallacy’: the myths that underpin European identity 2023-09-29
From the archive: ‘Mama Boko Haram’: one woman’s extraordinary mission to rescue ‘her boys’ from terrorism 2023-09-27
‘Voters are unhappier with the NHS than they’ve been for 30 years. As a GP, I feel the same’ 2023-09-25
Proust, ChatGPT and the case of the forgotten quote 2023-09-22
From the archive: The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life underground 2023-09-20
The evolution of Steve Albini: ‘If the dumbest person is on your side, you’re on the wrong side’ 2023-09-18
‘Move forward. Flap around a little!’ How learning to swim in my 50s set me free 2023-09-15
From the archive: A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel 2023-09-13
‘Ruzzki not welcome’: the Russian exiles getting a hostile reception in Georgia 2023-09-11
The aftermath: how the Beirut explosion has left scars on an already broken Lebanon 2023-09-08
From the archive: Golden Dawn: the rise and fall of Greece’s neo-Nazis 2023-09-06
‘If I left, I’d have to go without a word’: how I escaped China’s mass arrests 2023-09-04
Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI 2023-09-01
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