The Audio Long Read

1097 Episodes

1. ‘We can’t even get basic care done’: what it’s like doing 12-hour shifts on an understaffed NHS ward

   Published: 1/27/2023
2. From the archive – The selling of the Krays: how two mediocre criminals created their own legend

   Published: 1/25/2023
3. ‘It was a set-up, we were fooled’: the coalmine that ate an Indian village

   Published: 1/23/2023
4. The price of ‘sugar free’: are sweeteners as harmless as we thought?

   Published: 1/20/2023
5. From the archive: El Chapo: what the rise and fall of the kingpin reveals about the war on drugs

   Published: 1/18/2023
6. Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site

   Published: 1/16/2023
7. Becoming a chatbot: my life as a real estate AI’s human backup

   Published: 1/13/2023
8. From the archive: Who killed the prime minister? The unsolved murder that still haunts Sweden

   Published: 1/11/2023
9. ‘The Godfather, Saudi-style’: inside the palace coup that brought MBS to power

   Published: 1/9/2023
10. ‘They want toys to get their children into Harvard’: have we been getting playthings all wrong?

    Published: 1/6/2023
11. From the archive: How the ‘rugby rape trial’ divided Ireland

    Published: 1/4/2023
12. Iran’s moment of truth: what will it take for the people to topple the regime?

    Published: 1/2/2023
13. Best of 2022: ‘Is this justice?’: why Sudan is facing a multibillion-dollar bill for 9/11

    Published: 12/30/2022
14. Best of 2022: The amazing true(ish) story of the ‘Honduran Maradona’

    Published: 12/26/2022
15. Best of 2022: ‘Parents are frightened for themselves and for their children’: an inspirational school in impossible times

    Published: 12/23/2022
16. Best of 2022: The sludge king: how one man turned an industrial wasteland into his own El Dorado

    Published: 12/19/2022
17. Best of 2022: ‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder

    Published: 12/16/2022
18. Best of 2022: Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker: the strange case of the Nave Andromeda

    Published: 12/12/2022
19. The many meanings of moss

    Published: 12/9/2022
20. From the archive: Dulwich Hamlet: the tiny football club that lost its home to developers – and won it back

    Published: 12/7/2022