The Audio Long Read

1086 Episodes

1. The true cost of El Salvador’s new gold rush

   Published: 5/10/2024
2. From the archive: The age of perpetual crisis – how the 2010s disrupted everything but resolved nothing

   Published: 5/8/2024
3. How child labour in India makes the paving stones beneath our feet

   Published: 5/6/2024
4. Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history

   Published: 5/3/2024
5. From the archive: The battle over dyslexia

   Published: 5/1/2024
6. The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’

   Published: 4/29/2024
7. Solidarity and strategy: the forgotten lessons of truly effective protest

   Published: 4/26/2024
8. From the archive: How Hindu supremacists are tearing India apart

   Published: 4/24/2024
9. What is the real Hamas?

   Published: 4/22/2024
10. A historic revolt, a forgotten hero, an empty plinth: is there a right way to remember slavery?

    Published: 4/19/2024
11. From the archive: Did Brazil’s evangelical superstar have her husband killed?

    Published: 4/17/2024
12. Rage, waste and corruption: how Covid changed politics

    Published: 4/15/2024
13. Disappearing tongues: the endangered language crisis

    Published: 4/12/2024
14. From the archive: The mystery of the Gatwick drone

    Published: 4/10/2024
15. ‘What’s the worst that could happen?’: Love in the sickle cell capital of the world

    Published: 4/8/2024
16. Radioactive waste, baby bottles and Spam: the deep ocean has become a dumping ground

    Published: 4/5/2024
17. From the archive – Out of thin air: the mystery of the man who fell from the sky

    Published: 4/3/2024
18. 200 cats, 200 dogs, one lab: the secrets of the pet food industry

    Published: 4/1/2024
19. Power grab: the hidden costs of Ireland’s datacentre boom

    Published: 3/29/2024
20. From the archive: ‘Is anybody in there?’ Life on the inside as a locked-in patient

    Published: 3/27/2024