The Audio Long Read

1096 Episodes

1. ‘The forest had gone’: the storm that moved a mountain

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

   Published: 9/19/2025
3. From the archive: Sewage sleuths: the men who revealed the slow, dirty death of Welsh and English rivers

   Published: 9/17/2025
4. Very British bribery: the whistleblower who exposed the UK’s dodgy arms deals with Saudi Arabia

   Published: 9/15/2025
5. ‘People pay to be told lies’: the rise and fall of the world’s first ayahuasca multinational

   Published: 9/12/2025
6. From the archive: ‘We were all wrong’: how Germany got hooked on Russian energy

   Published: 9/10/2025
7. Dancing with Putin: how Austria’s former foreign minister found a new home in Russia

   Published: 9/8/2025
8. Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’

   Published: 9/5/2025
9. From the archive: ‘We need to break the junk food cycle’: how to fix Britain’s failing food system

   Published: 9/3/2025
10. The rise and fall of the British cult that hid in plain sight

    Published: 9/1/2025
11. Best of 2025 … so far: ‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star

    Published: 8/29/2025
12. Best of 2025 … so far: ‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies?

    Published: 8/27/2025
13. The go-between: how Qatar became the global capital of diplomacy

    Published: 8/25/2025
14. Best of 2025 … so far: an English gentleman, a crooked lawyer: the secrets of Stephen David Jones

    Published: 8/22/2025
15. Best of 2025 … so far: Kahane’s ghost: how a long-dead extremist rabbi continues to haunt Israel’s politics

    Published: 8/20/2025
16. Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights?

    Published: 8/18/2025
17. Best of 2025 … so far: The savage suburbia of Helen Garner: ‘I wanted to dong Martin Amis with a bat’

    Published: 8/15/2025
18. Best of 2025 … so far: ‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son

    Published: 8/13/2025
19. How Pakistan fell in love with sushi

    Published: 8/11/2025
20. Best of 2025 … so far: ‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis?

    Published: 8/8/2025