The Audio Long Read
Een podcast door The Guardian
1070 Afleveringen
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‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang
Gepubliceerd: 24-10-2025 -
From the archive: Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famous face
Gepubliceerd: 22-10-2025 -
The origins of today’s conflict between American Jews over Israel
Gepubliceerd: 20-10-2025 -
‘I have to do it’: why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China
Gepubliceerd: 17-10-2025 -
From the archive: ‘Infertility stung me’: Black motherhood and me
Gepubliceerd: 15-10-2025 -
‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning
Gepubliceerd: 13-10-2025 -
Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest
Gepubliceerd: 10-10-2025 -
From the archive: The Blackstone rebellion: how one country took on the world’s biggest commercial landlord
Gepubliceerd: 8-10-2025 -
‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster
Gepubliceerd: 6-10-2025 -
From bank robber to scholar: the Knoxville dropout fighting to change how we see addiction
Gepubliceerd: 3-10-2025 -
From the archive: Divine comedy: the standup double act who turned to the priesthood
Gepubliceerd: 1-10-2025 -
‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?
Gepubliceerd: 29-9-2025 -
Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films?
Gepubliceerd: 26-9-2025 -
From the archive: Forgetting the apocalypse: why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous
Gepubliceerd: 24-9-2025 -
‘The forest had gone’: the storm that moved a mountain
Gepubliceerd: 22-9-2025 -
Life in a ‘sinking nation’: Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land
Gepubliceerd: 19-9-2025 -
From the archive: Sewage sleuths: the men who revealed the slow, dirty death of Welsh and English rivers
Gepubliceerd: 17-9-2025 -
Very British bribery: the whistleblower who exposed the UK’s dodgy arms deals with Saudi Arabia
Gepubliceerd: 15-9-2025 -
‘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
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.
