The Audio Long Read
A podcast by The Guardian
1086 Episodes
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The ‘mad egghead’ who built a mouse utopia
Published: 1/10/2025 -
From the archive: Cold comfort: how cold water swimming cured my broken heart
Published: 1/8/2025 -
Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother
Published: 1/6/2025 -
The brain collector: the scientist unravelling the mysteries of grey matter
Published: 1/3/2025 -
From the archive: The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine?
Published: 1/1/2025 -
The rollercoaster king: the man behind the UK’s fastest thrill-ride
Published: 12/30/2024 -
Best of 2024: ‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s libraries provide much more than books
Published: 12/27/2024 -
Best of 2024: As a teenager, John was jailed for assaulting someone and stealing their bike. That was 17 years ago – will he ever be released?
Published: 12/23/2024 -
Best of 2024: ‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s
Published: 12/20/2024 -
Best of 2024: Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internationally educated elite
Published: 12/16/2024 -
Revisited: Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison
Published: 12/13/2024 -
10 years of the long read: Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers (2024)
Published: 12/11/2024 -
10 years of the long read: ‘All that we had is gone’: my lament for war-torn Khartoum (2023)
Published: 12/9/2024 -
A new nuclear arms race is beginning. It will be far more dangerous than the last one
Published: 12/6/2024 -
Revisited: Too much stuff: can we solve our addiction to consumerism?
Published: 12/4/2024 -
The scandal of food waste – and how we can stop it
Published: 12/2/2024 -
‘I couldn’t cry over my children like everyone else’: the tragedy of Palestinian journalist Wael al-Dahdouh
Published: 11/29/2024 -
10 years of the long read: Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker: the strange case of the Nave Andromeda (2022)
Published: 11/27/2024 -
A cool flame: how Gaia theory was born out of a secret love affair
Published: 11/25/2024 -
‘You tried to tell yourself I wasn’t real’: what happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?
Published: 11/22/2024
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.
