The Audio Long Read

1099 Episodes

1. Tampon wars: the battle to overthrow the Tampax empire

   Published: 3/2/2020
2. History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future

   Published: 2/28/2020
3. Magic moments: the indestructible appeal of easy listening radio

   Published: 2/21/2020
4. What I have learned from my suicidal patients

   Published: 2/21/2020
5. False witness: why is the US still using hypnosis to convict criminals?

   Published: 2/17/2020
6. Kudos, leaderboards, QOMs: how fitness app Strava became a religion

   Published: 2/14/2020
7. The weird magic of eiderdown

   Published: 2/10/2020
8. A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel

   Published: 2/7/2020
9. The Zaghari-Ratcliffes' ordeal: British arrogance, secret arms deals and Whitehall infighting

   Published: 2/3/2020
10. Bring up the bodies: the retired couple who find drowning victims

    Published: 1/31/2020
11. How the US helped create El Salvador’s bloody gang war

    Published: 1/27/2020
12. Freedom without constraints: how the US squandered its cold war victory

    Published: 1/24/2020
13. The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism

    Published: 1/20/2020
14. Why WeWork went wrong

    Published: 1/17/2020
15. Snow machines and fleece blankets: inside the ski industry’s battle with climate change

    Published: 1/13/2020
16. ‘Humans were not centre stage’: how ancient cave art puts us in our place

    Published: 1/10/2020
17. The age of perpetual crisis: how the 2010s disrupted everything but resolved nothing

    Published: 1/6/2020
18. The making of a bedsit Nazi: who was the man who killed Jo Cox?

    Published: 1/3/2020
19. Best audio long reads of 2019: the Anthropocene epoch

    Published: 12/30/2019
20. Best audio long reads of 2019: my infant son’s struggle with food

    Published: 12/27/2019