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, money, philosophy, science, internet culture, modern life, war, climate change, current affairs (including Trump, Israel, Palestine and Gaza), music and trends, and seeks to answer key questions around them through explainers, interviews, 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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From the archive: Dulwich Hamlet: the tiny football club that lost its home to developers – and won it back 2022-12-07
‘He was fast … he ran you right over’: what it’s like to get hit by an SUV 2022-12-05
How to move a country: Fiji’s radical plan to escape rising sea levels 2022-12-02
From the archive: China’s hi-tech war on its Muslim minority 2022-11-30
‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that help explain Britain today 2022-11-28
Are we really prisoners of geography? 2022-11-25
From the archive: How I let drinking take over my life 2022-11-23
The night everything changed: waiting for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine 2022-11-21
Megalopolis: how coastal west Africa will shape the coming century 2022-11-18
From the archive – Spain’s Watergate: inside the corruption scandal that changed a nation 2022-11-16
Is the IMF fit for purpose? 2022-11-14
Ukraine’s true detectives: the investigators closing in on Russian war criminals 2022-11-11
From the archive: The Anthropocene epoch: have we entered a new phase of planetary history? 2022-11-09
My small, doomed stand against Margaret Thatcher’s war on truth 2022-11-07
Greenwashing a police state: the truth behind Egypt’s Cop27 masquerade 2022-11-04
From the archive: The dark history of Donald Trump’s rightwing revolt 2022-11-02
Psychiatry wars: the lawsuit that put psychoanalysis on trial 2022-10-31
Ben Roberts-Smith v the media: episode one of a new podcast 2022-10-29
The amazing true(ish) story of the ‘Honduran Maradona’ 2022-10-28
From the archive: ‘A zombie party’: the deepening crisis of conservatism 2022-10-26
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