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The Audio Long Read podcast

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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

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

9 hrs Ago

36 MINS

36:59

9 hrs Ago

#299

‘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

Yesterday

32 MINS

32:45

Yesterday

#298

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

#297

‘The police weren’t interested’: what’s driving the rise in private prosecutions?

As the police and courts continue to struggle with the legacy of austerity, many people ar... more

08 Dec 2025

33 MINS

33:27

08 Dec 2025

#296

When I met Craig he was 13 and homeless. I still thought his life might turn around. I was tragicall...

I knew he was running away from something. It wasn’t until many years later that I discove... more

05 Dec 2025

31 MINS

31:29

05 Dec 2025

#295

Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being... more

04 Dec 2025

31 MINS

31:48

04 Dec 2025

#294

From the archive: A day in the life of (almost) every vending machine in the world

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

03 Dec 2025

47 MINS

47:46

03 Dec 2025

#293

‘They take the money and go’: why not everyone is mourning the end of USAID

When Donald Trump set about dismantling USAID, many around the world were shocked. But on ... more

01 Dec 2025

41 MINS

41:29

01 Dec 2025

#292

‘I knew in my head we were dying’: the last voyage of the Scandies Rose

When a fishing boat left port in Alaska in December 2019 with an experienced crew, an icy ... more

28 Nov 2025

28 MINS

28:20

28 Nov 2025

#291

From the archive: ‘If you decide to cut staff, people die’: how Nottingham prison descended into cha...

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

26 Nov 2025

50 MINS

50:08

26 Nov 2025

#290

‘Scamming became the new farming’: inside India’s cybercrime villages

How did an obscure district in a neglected state become India’s byword for digital deceit?... more

24 Nov 2025

41 MINS

41:11

24 Nov 2025

#289

From the archive: how we lost our sensory connection with food – and how to restore it

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

19 Nov 2025

35 MINS

35:36

19 Nov 2025

#288

The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist

Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were ... more

17 Nov 2025

40 MINS

40:00

17 Nov 2025

#287

‘The jobless should lead the attack’: a radical Jamaican journalist in 1920s London

Economic insecurity, race riots, incendiary media … Claude McKay was one of the few Black ... more

14 Nov 2025

31 MINS

31:38

14 Nov 2025

#286

From the archive: ‘We are so divided now’: how China controls thought and speech beyond its borders

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

12 Nov 2025

40 MINS

40:42

12 Nov 2025

#285

Special Edition: Behind the scenes at the Long Read

To celebrate the launch of the new Guardian Long Read magazine this week, join the long re... more

11 Nov 2025

19 MINS

19:57

11 Nov 2025

#284

Counting down to zero: the final warning from a climate diplomat

Before Peter Betts died in 2023, he wanted to pass on what he had learned over many years ... more

10 Nov 2025

27 MINS

27:16

10 Nov 2025

#283

Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet

A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that conne... more

07 Nov 2025

32 MINS

32:53

07 Nov 2025

#282

From the archive: A drowning world: Kenya’s quiet slide underwater

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

05 Nov 2025

27 MINS

27:35

05 Nov 2025

#281

‘Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth’: a Chinese journalist on the US u...

Once a stalwart of Hong Kong’s journalism scene, Wang Jian has found a new audience on You... more

03 Nov 2025

30 MINS

30:32

03 Nov 2025