The Audio Long Read

A podcast by The Guardian

1086 Episodes

From the archive: One drug dealer, two corrupt cops and a risky FBI sting
Published: 2/26/2025
Innit innit boys and Super Eagles: how Nigerian Londoners found their identity through football
Published: 2/24/2025
The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay
Published: 2/21/2025
From the archive: Was it inevitable? A short history of Russia’s war on Ukraine
Published: 2/19/2025
The loudest megaphone: how Trump mastered our new attention age
Published: 2/17/2025
How a young Dutch woman’s life began when she was allowed to die
Published: 2/14/2025
From the archive: The knackerman: the toughest job in British farming
Published: 2/12/2025
‘Bring me my tariffs’: how Trump’s China plan was 40 years in the making
Published: 2/10/2025
Tokyo drift: what happens when a city stops being the future?
Published: 2/7/2025
From the archive: The false positives scandal: how thousands of innocent Colombians were killed so soldiers could get more holiday
Published: 2/5/2025
The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?
Published: 2/3/2025
Endless work, little money, occasional UFOs: my father’s five decades driving Brazil’s roads
Published: 1/31/2025
From the archive: How one man spent 34 years in prison after setting fire to a pair of curtains
Published: 1/29/2025
The man making a business out of China’s burnout generation
Published: 1/27/2025
Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain
Published: 1/24/2025
From the archive: Inspired by nature: the thrilling new science that could transform medicine
Published: 1/22/2025
‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies?
Published: 1/20/2025
Inside the Vatican’s secret saint-making process
Published: 1/17/2025
From the archive: ‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder
Published: 1/15/2025
The inspiring scientists who saved the world’s first seed bank
Published: 1/13/2025

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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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1086 Episodes

From the archive: One drug dealer, two corrupt cops and a risky FBI sting

Innit innit boys and Super Eagles: how Nigerian Londoners found their identity through football

The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay

From the archive: Was it inevitable? A short history of Russia’s war on Ukraine

The loudest megaphone: how Trump mastered our new attention age

How a young Dutch woman’s life began when she was allowed to die

From the archive: The knackerman: the toughest job in British farming

‘Bring me my tariffs’: how Trump’s China plan was 40 years in the making

Tokyo drift: what happens when a city stops being the future?

From the archive: The false positives scandal: how thousands of innocent Colombians were killed so soldiers could get more holiday

The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?

Endless work, little money, occasional UFOs: my father’s five decades driving Brazil’s roads

From the archive: How one man spent 34 years in prison after setting fire to a pair of curtains

The man making a business out of China’s burnout generation

Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain

From the archive: Inspired by nature: the thrilling new science that could transform medicine

‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies?

Inside the Vatican’s secret saint-making process

From the archive: ‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder

The inspiring scientists who saved the world’s first seed bank