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 (including Trump, Israel, Palestine and Gaza), money, philosophy, science, internet culture, modern life, war, climate change, current affairs, music and trends, and seeks to answer key questions around them through in depth interviews explainers, 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: How one man spent 34 years in prison after setting fire to a pair of curtains 2025-01-29
The man making a business out of China’s burnout generation 2025-01-27
Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain 2025-01-24
From the archive: Inspired by nature: the thrilling new science that could transform medicine 2025-01-22
‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies? 2025-01-20
Inside the Vatican’s secret saint-making process 2025-01-17
From the archive: ‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder 2025-01-15
The inspiring scientists who saved the world’s first seed bank 2025-01-13
The ‘mad egghead’ who built a mouse utopia 2025-01-10
From the archive: Cold comfort: how cold water swimming cured my broken heart 2025-01-08
Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother 2025-01-06
The brain collector: the scientist unravelling the mysteries of grey matter 2025-01-03
From the archive: The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine? 2025-01-01
The rollercoaster king: the man behind the UK’s fastest thrill-ride 2024-12-30
Best of 2024: ‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s libraries provide much more than books 2024-12-27
Best of 2024: As a teenager, John was jailed for assaulting someone and stealing their bike. That was 17 years ago – will he ever be released? 2024-12-23
Best of 2024: ‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s 2024-12-20
Best of 2024: Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internationally educated elite 2024-12-16
Revisited: Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison 2024-12-13
10 years of the long read: Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers (2024) 2024-12-11
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