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: The mystery of the Gatwick drone 2024-04-10
‘What’s the worst that could happen?’: Love in the sickle cell capital of the world 2024-04-08
Radioactive waste, baby bottles and Spam: the deep ocean has become a dumping ground 2024-04-05
From the archive – Out of thin air: the mystery of the man who fell from the sky 2024-04-03
200 cats, 200 dogs, one lab: the secrets of the pet food industry 2024-04-01
Power grab: the hidden costs of Ireland’s datacentre boom 2024-03-29
From the archive: ‘Is anybody in there?’ Life on the inside as a locked-in patient 2024-03-27
‘It was so wrong’: why were so many people imprisoned over one protest in Bristol? 2024-03-25
What we talk about when we talk about giving up 2024-03-22
From the archive – Operation Condor: the cold war conspiracy that terrorised South America 2024-03-20
The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same 2024-03-18
Electric mountain: the power station that shows the beauty of infrastructure 2024-03-15
From the archive: How western travel influencers got tangled up in Pakistan’s politics 2024-03-13
‘Can I now send the funds?’: secrets of the Conservative money machine 2024-03-11
‘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
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