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Audio Long Reads, from the New Statesman podcast

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Audio Long Reads, from the New Statesman

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  The New Statesman  

The New Statesman is the UK's leading politics and culture magazine. Here you can listen to a selection of our very best reported features and essays read aloud. Get immersed in powerful storytelling and narrative journalism from some of the world's best writers. Have your mind opened by influential thinkers on the forces shaping our lives today. Ease into the weekend with new episodes published every Saturday morning. For more, visit www.newstatesman.com/podcasts/audio-long-reads Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

The New Statesman is the UK's leading politics and culture magazine. Here you can listen to a selection of our very best reported features and essays read aloud. Get immersed in powerful storytelling and narrative journalism from some of the world's best writers. Have your mind opened by influential thinkers on the forces shaping our lives today. Ease into the weekend with new episodes published every Saturday morning. For more, visit www.newstatesman.com/podcasts/audio-long-reads Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

 

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#88

The UK’s leading romance fraud specialist

How did one detective take on an international network of romance fraudsters? This episode... more

13 Feb 2024

46 MINS

46:13

13 Feb 2024

#87

The great private school con

They no longer have a stranglehold on Oxbridge and would lose tax breaks under Labour. So ... more

11 Nov 2023

29 MINS

29:19

11 Nov 2023

#86

How Rishi Sunak became the first Silicon Valley prime minister

On 2 November 2023, Rishi Sunak closed his global AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park by in... more

04 Nov 2023

22 MINS

22:27

04 Nov 2023

#85

Israel, Hamas and the unravelling of the West

What might be the long term impact of the Israel-Hamas war on global alliances? In this we... more

28 Oct 2023

16 MINS

16:11

28 Oct 2023

#84

Has your AI therapist got your back?

In May this year, an American woman sought the help of a chatbot on an eating disorders we... more

14 Oct 2023

21 MINS

21:53

14 Oct 2023

#83

How Britain became a dangerous place to have a baby

What are the roots of today’s maternity crisis? Recent research by the Care Quality Commis... more

07 Oct 2023

23 MINS

23:54

07 Oct 2023

#82

A year inside GB News: "We’re going to disrupt"

For today’s Audio Long Read we’re bringing you one from our archives, which is suddenly ex... more

30 Sep 2023

47 MINS

47:35

30 Sep 2023

#81

The philosopher and the crypto king: Sam Bankman-Fried and the effective altruism delusion

At the time of writing, the crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried is due to stand trial on ... more

23 Sep 2023

36 MINS

36:12

23 Sep 2023

#80

How Chile (almost) democratised Big Tech

Fifty years after Salvador Allende was ousted, might his greatest legacy be his battle wit... more

19 Sep 2023

22 MINS

22:18

19 Sep 2023

#79

The prime minister and the AI that solved the climate crisis

After the extreme heat of summer 2024, which saw children stretchered out of their exams, ... more

09 Sep 2023

22 MINS

22:49

09 Sep 2023

#78

Summer of Light: a new short story by Jonathan Coe

In the summer of 1924, a highly regarded painter falls – or is he pushed? – into the canal... more

02 Sep 2023

20 MINS

20:22

02 Sep 2023

#77

Escaping Eden: life after the Plymouth Brethren

For those who leave the ultra-conservative Christian sect, separation comes at great perso... more

26 Aug 2023

43 MINS

43:11

26 Aug 2023

#76

In defence of counterfactual history

What if the rush to war in 1914 had been averted? What if the Berlin Crisis of 1961 had le... more

19 Aug 2023

23 MINS

23:13

19 Aug 2023

#75

What Simone De Beauvoir knew about loss, by Ali Smith

The novelist Ali Smith first came across the work of Simone de Beauvoir in an Inverness bo... more

12 Aug 2023

21 MINS

21:41

12 Aug 2023

#74

George Monbiot: how I escape climate despair

There is one question the environmental journalist and author George Monbiot is asked more... more

05 Aug 2023

15 MINS

15:53

05 Aug 2023

#73

The 1922 committee: inside the Conservatives’ assassination bureau | Audio Long Read

The Conservative Private Members Committee, informally known as the 1922 Committee (or the... more

29 Jul 2023

26 MINS

26:51

29 Jul 2023

#72

How Saudi Arabia is buying the world

When Saudi cinemas reopened in 2018, for the first time in 35 years, they screened the Mar... more

22 Jul 2023

36 MINS

36:33

22 Jul 2023

#71

The Spanish election reveals the future of Europe

Since 2018, prime minister Pedro Sánchez has led a surprisingly durable and impactful Span... more

15 Jul 2023

22 MINS

22:10

15 Jul 2023

#70

Is male fertility in freefall?

In recent decades, studies have shown a significant decline in sperm quality and count. Th... more

08 Jul 2023

21 MINS

21:54

08 Jul 2023

#69

What we learned from the Wagner mutiny

On June 23 theNew Statesman’s contributing writer Bruno Macaes visited Ukraine’s head of m... more

01 Jul 2023

16 MINS

16:17

01 Jul 2023

#68

A warning from the godfathers of AI

On 31 March this year, the British scientist Geoffrey Hinton resigned from Google, where h... more

24 Jun 2023

30 MINS

30:27

24 Jun 2023

#67

The risky rise of medical self-diagnosis

Recent years have seen a proliferation of health charities in the UK, raising awareness an... more

17 Jun 2023

22 MINS

22:59

17 Jun 2023

#66

How did parenthood become an unaffordable luxury?

The UK is now one of the most expensive places in the developed world to have a baby. Our ... more

10 Jun 2023

23 MINS

23:41

10 Jun 2023

#65

How the rich got richer: welcome to the age of ‘greedflation’

In a bid to curb inflation, the Bank of England has raised interest rates 12 consecutive t... more

03 Jun 2023

26 MINS

26:57

03 Jun 2023

#64

Inside the Conservative party’s radical right

May 2023 saw two significant gatherings of the Tory right: the Conservative Democratic Org... more

27 May 2023

30 MINS

30:16

27 May 2023

#63

‘It’s a state of terror’: inside Haiti’s descent into chaos

In May 2023, the [UN reported] (https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/05/1136502) that 600 peo... more

20 May 2023

26 MINS

26:27

20 May 2023

#62

Why Liverpool bet big on Eurovision

Liverpool has a rich musical history, from the Beatles to Echo and the Bunnymen, and beat ... more

13 May 2023

17 MINS

17:16

13 May 2023

#61

Inside the mind of King Charles III

Since 1993, the king has been visiting a village in deepest Romania – once a year, alone. ... more

06 May 2023

39 MINS

39:57

06 May 2023