The Audio Long Read

1094 Episodes

1. ‘Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth’: a Chinese journalist on the US under Trump

   Published: 11/3/2025
2. The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job

   Published: 10/31/2025
3. From the archive: The queen of crime-solving

   Published: 10/29/2025
4. A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0

   Published: 10/27/2025
5. ‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang

   Published: 10/24/2025
6. From the archive: Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famous face

   Published: 10/22/2025
7. The origins of today’s conflict between American Jews over Israel

   Published: 10/20/2025
8. ‘I have to do it’: why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China

   Published: 10/17/2025
9. From the archive: ‘Infertility stung me’: Black motherhood and me

   Published: 10/15/2025
10. ‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning

    Published: 10/13/2025
11. Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest

    Published: 10/10/2025
12. From the archive: The Blackstone rebellion: how one country took on the world’s biggest commercial landlord

    Published: 10/8/2025
13. ‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster

    Published: 10/6/2025
14. From bank robber to scholar: the Knoxville dropout fighting to change how we see addiction

    Published: 10/3/2025
15. From the archive: Divine comedy: the standup double act who turned to the priesthood

    Published: 10/1/2025
16. ‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?

    Published: 9/29/2025
17. Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films?

    Published: 9/26/2025
18. From the archive: Forgetting the apocalypse: why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous

    Published: 9/24/2025
19. ‘The forest had gone’: the storm that moved a mountain

    Published: 9/22/2025
20. Life in a ‘sinking nation’: Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land

    Published: 9/19/2025