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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Best of 2023… so far: ‘I know where the bodies are buried’: one woman’s mission to change how the police investigate rape 2023-08-11
How hip-hop gave voice to a generation of Egyptians hungry for change 2023-08-07
Best of 2023 … so far: Battle of the botanic garden: the horticulture war roiling the Isle of Wight 2023-08-04
Victoria Amelina: Ukraine and the meaning of home 2023-07-31
‘People are like, Wow!’: the man trying to make condoms sexy 2023-07-28
From the archive: Bring up the bodies: the retired couple who find drowning victims 2023-07-26
How to reduce the damage done by gentrification 2023-07-24
‘You reach a point where you can’t live your life’: what is behind extreme hoarding? 2023-07-21
From the archive: Tampon wars: the battle to overthrow the Tampax empire 2023-07-19
How Ukraine’s national dish became a symbol of Putin’s invasion 2023-07-17
‘Why I might have done what I did’: conversations with Ireland’s most notorious murderer 2023-07-14
From the archive: Life after deportation: ‘No one tells you how lonely you’re going to be’ 2023-07-12
‘Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic’ 2023-07-10
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: three days with a giant of African literature 2023-07-07
From the archive: A 975-day nightmare: how the Home Office forced a British citizen into destitution abroad 2023-07-05
The planet’s economist: has Kate Raworth found a model for sustainable living? 2023-07-03
‘I knew the terror of lost time’: how my father’s dementia echoed my own alcoholism 2023-06-30
From the archive: Party and protest: the radical history of gay liberation, Stonewall and Pride 2023-06-28
The backlash: how slavery research came under fire 2023-06-26
Can humans ever understand how animals think? 2023-06-23
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