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The Audio Long Read podcast

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The Audio Long Read

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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

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

Yesterday

35 MINS

35:36

Yesterday

#299

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

#298

‘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

#297

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

#296

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

#295

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

#294

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

#293

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

#292

‘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

#291

The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job

From murder scenes to whale blubber, Ben Giles has seen it – and cleaned it – all. In thei... more

31 Oct 2025

30 MINS

30:46

31 Oct 2025

#290

From the archive: The queen of crime-solving

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

29 Oct 2025

41 MINS

41:55

29 Oct 2025

#289

A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0

If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, t... more

27 Oct 2025

25 MINS

25:45

27 Oct 2025

#288

‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang

In the 1970s, the radical leftwing German terrorist organisation may have spread fear thro... more

24 Oct 2025

36 MINS

36:37

24 Oct 2025

#287

From the archive: Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famous face

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

22 Oct 2025

48 MINS

48:46

22 Oct 2025

#286

The origins of today’s conflict between American Jews over Israel

In the early years, American Jewish support for Israel was a fraught issue. The turning po... more

20 Oct 2025

28 MINS

28:35

20 Oct 2025

#285

‘I have to do it’: why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China

In 2020, after spending half his life in the US, Song-Chun Zhu took a one-way ticket to Ch... more

17 Oct 2025

54 MINS

54:50

17 Oct 2025

#284

From the archive: ‘Infertility stung me’: Black motherhood and me

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

15 Oct 2025

33 MINS

33:25

15 Oct 2025

#283

‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning

Over a few brutal days in March, as sectarian violence and revenge killings tore through p... more

13 Oct 2025

42 MINS

42:49

13 Oct 2025

#282

Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest

The late Kenyan novelist and activist believed erasing language was the most lasting weapo... more

10 Oct 2025

30 MINS

30:27

10 Oct 2025

#281

From the archive: The Blackstone rebellion: how one country took on the world’s biggest commercial l...

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

08 Oct 2025

44 MINS

44:48

08 Oct 2025