The Audio Long Read

1088 Episodes

1. Best of 2022 … so far: ‘In our teens, we dreamed of making peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Then my friend was shot’

   Published: 8/12/2022
2. Bicycle graveyards: why do so many bikes end up underwater?

   Published: 8/8/2022
3. Best of 2022 … so far: Burying Leni Riefenstahl: one woman’s lifelong crusade against Hitler’s favourite film-maker

   Published: 8/5/2022
4. ‘It’s a little bit of utopia’: the dream of replacing container ships with sailing boats

   Published: 8/1/2022
5. Made to measure: why we can’t stop quantifying our lives

   Published: 7/29/2022
6. From the archive: How the world got hooked on palm oil

   Published: 7/27/2022
7. Promised land: how South Africa’s black farmers were set up to fail

   Published: 7/25/2022
8. ‘Thank the lord, I have been relieved’: the truth about the history of abortion in America

   Published: 7/22/2022
9. From the archive: Concrete: the most destructive material on Earth

   Published: 7/20/2022
10. ‘If you decide to cut staff, people die’: how Nottingham prison descended into chaos

    Published: 7/18/2022
11. ‘You can’t be the player’s friend’: inside the secret world of tennis umpires

    Published: 7/15/2022
12. From the archive: the murder that has obsessed Italy

    Published: 7/13/2022
13. Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker: the strange case of the Nave Andromeda

    Published: 7/11/2022
14. ‘A massive betrayal’: how London’s Olympic legacy was sold out

    Published: 7/8/2022
15. From the archive: The mystery of India’s deadly exam scam

    Published: 7/6/2022
16. Do we need a new theory of evolution?

    Published: 7/4/2022
17. ‘There are no words for the horror’: the story of my madness

    Published: 7/1/2022
18. From the archive: Welcome to the age of Trump

    Published: 6/29/2022
19. ‘Wallets and eyeballs’: How eBay turned the internet into a marketplace

    Published: 6/27/2022
20. ‘A merry-go-round of buck-passing’: inside the four-year Grenfell inquiry

    Published: 6/24/2022