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  The Guardian  

Three times a week, The Audio Long Read podcast brings you the Guardian’s exceptional longform journalism in audio form. Covering topics from politics and culture to philosophy and sport, as well as investigations and current affairs.

Three times a week, The Audio Long Read podcast brings you the Guardian’s exceptional longform journalism in audio form. Covering topics from politics and culture to philosophy and sport, as well as investigations and current affairs.

 

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#300

We published explosive stories about the president of El Salvador. Now we can’t go home

Days before we ran interviews with gang leaders describing their alleged ties to Nayib Buk... more

26 Jan 2026

29 MINS

29:35

26 Jan 2026

#299

‘We were forced to burn bodies’: will survivors of the Tadamon massacres see justice?

During the conflict, the Damascus suburb became a killing field. But some of Assad’s hench... more

23 Jan 2026

38 MINS

38:19

23 Jan 2026

#298

From the archive: The last humanist: how Paul Gilroy became the most vital guide to our age of crisi...

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years... more

21 Jan 2026

57 MINS

57:02

21 Jan 2026

#297

‘The English person with a Chinese stomach’: how Fuchsia Dunlop became a Sichuan food hero

The author has been explaining Sichuan cuisine to westerners for decades. But ‘Fu Xia’, as... more

19 Jan 2026

30 MINS

30:27

19 Jan 2026

#296

The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’

Still largely viewed as a peaceful philosophy, across much of south-east Asia, the religio... more

16 Jan 2026

39 MINS

39:00

16 Jan 2026

#295

From the archive: Kudos, leaderboards, QOMs: how fitness app Strava became a religion

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years... more

14 Jan 2026

32 MINS

32:13

14 Jan 2026

#294

Hard to digest: we still live in Fast Food Nation

Twenty-five years after I revealed the practices of the industrial food giants, the profit... more

12 Jan 2026

38 MINS

38:04

12 Jan 2026

#293

‘I wish I could say I kept my cool’: my maddening experience with the NHS wheelchair service

After I was paralysed in a climbing accident, I discovered how inconsiderate, illogical an... more

09 Jan 2026

28 MINS

28:47

09 Jan 2026

#292

From the archive: The cartel, the journalist and the gangland killings that rocked the Netherlands

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years... more

07 Jan 2026

57 MINS

57:35

07 Jan 2026

#291

Inside the rise and fall of Podemos: ‘We believed we had a stake in the future’

The leftist party exploded out of Spain’s anti-austerity protests in 2011 and upended Spai... more

05 Jan 2026

30 MINS

30:39

05 Jan 2026

#290

Best of 2025: ‘A relentless, destructive energy’: inside the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gord...

Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite aud... more

02 Jan 2026

1 HR 05 MINS

1:05:22

02 Jan 2026

#289

Best of 2025: ‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning

Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite aud... more

29 Dec 2025

44 MINS

44:54

29 Dec 2025

#288

Best of 2025: The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years...

Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite aud... more

26 Dec 2025

32 MINS

32:18

26 Dec 2025

#287

Best of 2025: Life in a ‘sinking nation’: Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land

Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite aud... more

22 Dec 2025

44 MINS

44:25

22 Dec 2025

#286

Best of 2025: The real Scandi noir: how a filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denmark’s self-im...

Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite aud... more

19 Dec 2025

50 MINS

50:17

19 Dec 2025

#285

Best of 2025: Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death...

Each week for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads ... more

17 Dec 2025

32 MINS

32:45

17 Dec 2025

#284

The snail farm don: is this the most brazen tax avoidance scheme of all time?

Terry Ball – renowned shoe salesman, friend to former mafiosi – has vowed to spend his rem... more

15 Dec 2025

33 MINS

33:27

15 Dec 2025

#283

The Birth Keepers: I choose this – episode one

The Free Birth Society was selling pregnant women a simple message. They could exit the me... more

13 Dec 2025

36 MINS

36:59

13 Dec 2025

#282

‘DeepSeek is humane. Doctors are more like machines’: my mother’s worrying reliance on AI for health...

Tired of a two-day commute to see her overworked doctor, my mother turned to tech for help... more

12 Dec 2025

32 MINS

32:45

12 Dec 2025

#281

From the archive: is the IMF fit for purpose?

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years... more

10 Dec 2025

39 MINS

39:32

10 Dec 2025