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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Title Date published
The cartel, the journalist and the gangland killings that rocked the Netherlands 2022-10-24
No place like home: my bitter return to Palestine 2022-10-21
From the archive: Going underground: inside the world of the mole-catchers 2022-10-19
The Blackstone rebellion: how one country took on the world’s biggest commercial landlord 2022-10-17
Ransomware hunters: the self-taught tech geniuses fighting cybercrime 2022-10-14
From the archive: The school beneath the wave: the unimaginable tragedy of Japan’s tsunami 2022-10-12
Allergic to the world: can medicine help people with severe intolerance to chemicals? 2022-10-10
Divine comedy: the standup double act who turned to the priesthood 2022-10-07
From the archive: Why we should bulldoze the business school 2022-10-05
The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion? 2022-10-03
Unboxing, bad baby and evil Santa: how YouTube got swamped with creepy content for kids 2022-09-30
From the archive: ‘State capture’: the corruption investigation that has shaken South Africa 2022-09-28
‘Farmed’: why were so many Black children fostered by white families in the UK? 2022-09-26
Can I Tell You a Secret: episode one of a new podcast 2022-09-24
Saviour or wrecker? The truth about the Treasury 2022-09-23
From the archive – Poles apart: the bitter conflict over a nation’s communist history 2022-09-21
The sludge king: how one man turned an industrial wasteland into his own El Dorado 2022-09-19
‘Parents are frightened for themselves and for their children’: an inspirational school in impossible times 2022-09-16
From the archive: What kind of King will Charles III be? 2022-09-14
‘Is this justice?’: why Sudan is facing a multibillion-dollar bill for 9/11 2022-09-12
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