The Audio Long Read

1098 Episodes

1. Forgetting the apocalypse: why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous

   Published: 5/30/2022
2. How to kill a god: the myth of Captain Cook shows how the heroes of empire will fall

   Published: 5/27/2022
3. From the archive: The Money Saving Expert: how Martin Lewis became the most trusted man in Britain

   Published: 5/25/2022
4. Spot the difference: the invincible business of counterfeit goods

   Published: 5/23/2022
5. The last phone boxes: broken glass, cider cans and – amazingly – a dial tone

   Published: 5/20/2022
6. From the archive: Five myths about the refugee crisis

   Published: 5/18/2022
7. How Putin’s invasion returned Nato to the centre stage

   Published: 5/16/2022
8. A day in the life of (almost) every vending machine in the world

   Published: 5/13/2022
9. From the archive: The retired cops investigating unsolved murders in one of America’s most violent cities

   Published: 5/11/2022
10. ‘A disaster waiting to happen’: who was really responsible for the fire at Moria refugee camp?

    Published: 5/9/2022
11. The lost Jews of Nigeria

    Published: 5/6/2022
12. From the archive: Has wine gone bad?

    Published: 5/4/2022
13. Shrinking the Gap: how the clothing brand lost its way

    Published: 5/2/2022
14. ‘A nursery of the Commons’: how the Oxford Union created today’s ruling political class

    Published: 4/29/2022
15. From the archive: why we stopped trusting elites

    Published: 4/27/2022
16. The queen of crime-solving

    Published: 4/25/2022
17. ‘The casino beckons’: my journey inside the cryptosphere

    Published: 4/22/2022
18. From the archive: Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?

    Published: 4/20/2022
19. How we lost our sensory connection with food – and how to restore it

    Published: 4/18/2022
20. How to stop China and the US going to war

    Published: 4/15/2022