The Audio Long Read

1087 Episodes

1. From the archive: The race to create a perfect lie detector, and the dangers of succeeding

   Published: 4/19/2023
2. Three abandoned children, two missing parents and a 40-year mystery

   Published: 4/17/2023
3. The Ciskei experiment: a libertarian fantasy in apartheid South Africa

   Published: 4/14/2023
4. From the archive – The sound of icebergs melting: my journey into the Antarctic

   Published: 4/12/2023
5. ‘They robbed me of my children’: Yemen’s war victims tell their stories

   Published: 4/10/2023
6. The stupidity of AI

   Published: 4/7/2023
7. From the archive – The girl in the box: the mysterious crime that shocked Germany

   Published: 4/5/2023
8. The disabled villain: why sensitivity reading can’t kill off this ugly trope

   Published: 4/3/2023
9. Foreign mothers, foreign tongues: ‘In another universe, she could have been my friend’

   Published: 3/31/2023
10. From the archive: Why do people hate vegans?

    Published: 3/29/2023
11. The trials of an Indian witness: how a Muslim man was caught in a legal nightmare

    Published: 3/27/2023
12. ‘I know where the bodies are buried’: one woman’s mission to change how the police investigate rape

    Published: 3/24/2023
13. From the archive: Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands

    Published: 3/22/2023
14. Baghdad memories: what the first few months of the US occupation felt like to an Iraqi

    Published: 3/20/2023
15. Dinner with Proust: how Alzheimer’s caregivers are pulled into their patients’ worlds

    Published: 3/17/2023
16. From the archive: How the MoD’s plan to privatise military housing ended in disaster

    Published: 3/15/2023
17. ‘One billionaire at a time’: inside the Swiss clinics where the super-rich go for rehab

    Published: 3/13/2023
18. From the archive: The real David Attenborough

    Published: 3/10/2023
19. No coach, no agent, no ego: the incredible story of the ‘Lionel Messi of cliff diving’

    Published: 3/6/2023
20. From the archive: Fifty shades of white: the long fight against racism in romance novels

    Published: 3/3/2023