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
‘I stopped counting how many friends died’: life after the contaminated blood scandal 2023-11-20
Inside the Taliban’s luxury hotel 2023-11-17
Special Edition: Behind the scenes at the Long Read 2023-11-15
The mass protest decade: why did the street movements of the 2010s fail? 2023-11-13
‘Incoherence and inconsistency’: the inside story of the Rwanda deportation plan 2023-11-10
From the archive: The last of the Zoroastrians 2023-11-08
The insider: how Michael Lewis got a backstage pass for the fall of Sam Bankman-Fried 2023-11-06
‘We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world 2023-11-03
From the archive: What I have learned from my suicidal patients 2023-11-01
The trials of Robert Habeck: is the world’s most powerful green politician doomed to fail? 2023-10-30
‘A hidden universe of suffering’: the Palestinian children sent to jail 2023-10-27
From the archive: ‘In our teens, we dreamed of making peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Then my friend was shot’ 2023-10-25
‘You may have been poisoned’: how an independent Russian journalist became a target 2023-10-23
Justice for Neanderthals! What the debate about our long-dead cousins reveals about us 2023-10-20
From the archive: Cholera and coronavirus: why we must not repeat the same mistakes 2023-10-18
‘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
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