The Audio Long Read

A podcast by The Guardian

1097 Episodes

The Coventry experiment: why were Indian women in Britain given radioactive food without their consent?
Published: 3/24/2025
My life as a prison officer: ‘It wasn’t just the smell that hit you. It was the noise’
Published: 3/21/2025
From the archive: The revolt against liberalism: what’s driving Poland and Hungary’s nativist turn?
Published: 3/19/2025
‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis?
Published: 3/17/2025
Turkey said it would become a ‘zero waste’ nation. Instead, it became a dumping ground for Europe’s rubbish
Published: 3/14/2025
From the archive: The end of Atlanticism: has Trump killed the ideology that won the cold war?
Published: 3/12/2025
Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand?
Published: 3/10/2025
‘Here lives the monster’s brain’: the man who exposed Switzerland’s dirty secrets
Published: 3/7/2025
From the archive: ‘In my 30 years as a GP, the profession has been horribly eroded’
Published: 3/5/2025
Massacre in the jungle: how an Indigenous man was made the public face of an atrocity
Published: 3/3/2025
Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’
Published: 2/28/2025
From the archive: One drug dealer, two corrupt cops and a risky FBI sting
Published: 2/26/2025
Innit innit boys and Super Eagles: how Nigerian Londoners found their identity through football
Published: 2/24/2025
The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay
Published: 2/21/2025
From the archive: Was it inevitable? A short history of Russia’s war on Ukraine
Published: 2/19/2025
The loudest megaphone: how Trump mastered our new attention age
Published: 2/17/2025
How a young Dutch woman’s life began when she was allowed to die
Published: 2/14/2025
From the archive: The knackerman: the toughest job in British farming
Published: 2/12/2025
‘Bring me my tariffs’: how Trump’s China plan was 40 years in the making
Published: 2/10/2025
Tokyo drift: what happens when a city stops being the future?
Published: 2/7/2025

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1097 Episodes

The Coventry experiment: why were Indian women in Britain given radioactive food without their consent?

My life as a prison officer: ‘It wasn’t just the smell that hit you. It was the noise’

From the archive: The revolt against liberalism: what’s driving Poland and Hungary’s nativist turn?

‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis?

Turkey said it would become a ‘zero waste’ nation. Instead, it became a dumping ground for Europe’s rubbish

From the archive: The end of Atlanticism: has Trump killed the ideology that won the cold war?

Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand?

‘Here lives the monster’s brain’: the man who exposed Switzerland’s dirty secrets

From the archive: ‘In my 30 years as a GP, the profession has been horribly eroded’

Massacre in the jungle: how an Indigenous man was made the public face of an atrocity

Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’

From the archive: One drug dealer, two corrupt cops and a risky FBI sting

Innit innit boys and Super Eagles: how Nigerian Londoners found their identity through football

The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay

From the archive: Was it inevitable? A short history of Russia’s war on Ukraine

The loudest megaphone: how Trump mastered our new attention age

How a young Dutch woman’s life began when she was allowed to die

From the archive: The knackerman: the toughest job in British farming

‘Bring me my tariffs’: how Trump’s China plan was 40 years in the making

Tokyo drift: what happens when a city stops being the future?