1032 Episodes

  1. Extremist cops: how US law enforcement is failing to police itself

    Published: 6/15/2020

  2. Bad ancestors: does the climate crisis violate the rights of those yet to be born?

    Published: 6/12/2020

  3. From the archive: Why would someone steal the world’s rarest water lily?

    Published: 6/10/2020

  4. Cholera and coronavirus: why we must not repeat the same mistakes

    Published: 6/8/2020

  5. 'The way we get through this is together': the rise of mutual aid under coronavirus

    Published: 6/5/2020

  6. From the archives: Gary Younge: Farewell to America

    Published: 6/3/2020

  7. Can computers ever replace the classroom?

    Published: 6/1/2020

  8. The sound of icebergs melting: my journey into the Antarctic

    Published: 5/29/2020

  9. From the archives: The death and life of the great British pub

    Published: 5/27/2020

  10. 'The past six weeks have been unlike anything I’ve known': a GP on how the pandemic has changed his work

    Published: 5/25/2020

  11. 'If one of us gets sick, we all get sick': the food workers on the coronavirus front line

    Published: 5/22/2020

  12. Our new series, Forgotten stories of football: Manchester United v Galatasaray, 1993

    Published: 5/21/2020

  13. Therapy under lockdown: 'I’m just as terrified as my patients are'

    Published: 5/18/2020

  14. Italian lessons: what we've learned from two months of home schooling

    Published: 5/15/2020

  15. How the face mask became the world's most coveted commodity

    Published: 5/11/2020

  16. ‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney Plus

    Published: 5/8/2020

  17. How coronavirus almost brought down the global financial system

    Published: 5/4/2020

  18. The WHO v coronavirus: why it can't handle the pandemic

    Published: 5/1/2020

  19. 'The impossible has already happened': what coronavirus can teach us about hope'

    Published: 4/27/2020

  20. Splendid isolation: how I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours

    Published: 4/24/2020

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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.

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