The Audio Long Read

1097 Episodes

1. Sudan’s outsider: how a paramilitary leader fell out with the army and plunged the country into war

   Published: 5/12/2023
2. From the archive: Cod wars to food banks: how a Lancashire fishing town is hanging on

   Published: 5/10/2023
3. Are coincidences real?

   Published: 5/8/2023
4. ‘The torture’s real. The time I did was real’: the Belfast man waterboarded by the British army

   Published: 5/5/2023
5. From the archive: Are your tinned tomatoes picked by slave labour?

   Published: 5/3/2023
6. Will flying ever be green?

   Published: 5/1/2023
7. How Deborah Levy can change your life

   Published: 4/28/2023
8. From the archive: My four miscarriages: why is losing a pregnancy so shrouded in mystery?

   Published: 4/26/2023
9. Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times

   Published: 4/24/2023
10. The impossible job: inside the world of Premier League referees

    Published: 4/21/2023
11. From the archive: The race to create a perfect lie detector, and the dangers of succeeding

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 3/29/2023