The Audio Long Read
Een podcast door The Guardian
1052 Afleveringen
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‘People pay to be told lies’: the rise and fall of the world’s first ayahuasca multinational
Gepubliceerd: 12-9-2025 -
From the archive: ‘We were all wrong’: how Germany got hooked on Russian energy
Gepubliceerd: 10-9-2025 -
Dancing with Putin: how Austria’s former foreign minister found a new home in Russia
Gepubliceerd: 8-9-2025 -
Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’
Gepubliceerd: 5-9-2025 -
From the archive: ‘We need to break the junk food cycle’: how to fix Britain’s failing food system
Gepubliceerd: 3-9-2025 -
The rise and fall of the British cult that hid in plain sight
Gepubliceerd: 1-9-2025 -
Best of 2025 … so far: ‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star
Gepubliceerd: 29-8-2025 -
Best of 2025 … so far: ‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies?
Gepubliceerd: 27-8-2025 -
The go-between: how Qatar became the global capital of diplomacy
Gepubliceerd: 25-8-2025 -
Best of 2025 … so far: an English gentleman, a crooked lawyer: the secrets of Stephen David Jones
Gepubliceerd: 22-8-2025 -
Best of 2025 … so far: Kahane’s ghost: how a long-dead extremist rabbi continues to haunt Israel’s politics
Gepubliceerd: 20-8-2025 -
Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights?
Gepubliceerd: 18-8-2025 -
Best of 2025 … so far: The savage suburbia of Helen Garner: ‘I wanted to dong Martin Amis with a bat’
Gepubliceerd: 15-8-2025 -
Best of 2025 … so far: ‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son
Gepubliceerd: 13-8-2025 -
How Pakistan fell in love with sushi
Gepubliceerd: 11-8-2025 -
Best of 2025 … so far: ‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis?
Gepubliceerd: 8-8-2025 -
Best of 2025 … so far: the great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?
Gepubliceerd: 6-8-2025 -
The Shining: my trip to the G7 horror show with Emmanuel Macron
Gepubliceerd: 4-8-2025 -
Are we witnessing the death of international law?
Gepubliceerd: 1-8-2025 -
From the archive: Bicycle graveyards: why do so many bikes end up underwater?
Gepubliceerd: 30-7-2025
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.