The Audio Long Read
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Three times a week, The Audio Long Read podcast brings you the Guardian’s exceptional longform journalism in audio form. Covering topics from politics and culture to philosophy and sport, as well as investigations and current affairs.
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The long shadow of Argentina’s dictatorship: she wasn’t who she thought she was....
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Sep 11, 202643:25completed
From the archive: Sudan’s outsider: how a paramilitary leader fell out with the...
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Sep 9, 202642:39completed
The great silence: why haven’t we found any aliens yet?
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Sep 7, 202638:31pending
Introducing Black Box: The Chatbots
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Sep 6, 202639:45completed
The body snatchers: how a young Nigerian man was lured to London in an organ-tra...
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From the archive: ‘Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic’
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‘I can sense Sinatra enter my body and exit my lungs’: aboard the celebrity impe...
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Aug 31, 202635:25pending
Best of 2026…so far: ‘Any other child would have died’: the miraculous survival...
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Best of 2026…so far: Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew abo...
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Aug 26, 202639:55pending
‘The war leaked into every lesson’: learning Ukrainian in a country under siege
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Aug 24, 202640:11pending
Best of 2026 … so far: Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh w...
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Best of 2026 … so far: Asian mothers, bad feelings: notes on an all-conquering s...
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Iraq’s impossible predicament: why the country is trapped between Iran and the U...
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Best of 2026…so far: Endo dreams of sushi: a trip around Japan with one of the w...
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Best of 2026…so far: 35,000 pints of stolen Guinness, 950 wheels of pilfered che...
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The Dacre dynasty: how Britain’s rightwing press was radicalised
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Aug 10, 202646:25pending
Best of 2026…so far: ‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a...
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Best of 2026…so far: My maddening battle with chronic fatigue syndrome: ‘On my w...
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Aug 5, 202635:18pending
‘This process has turned into a form of torture’: inside the trial of Erdoğan’s...
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‘It makes your heart sing’: can a pioneering project show that rewilding really...
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Jul 31, 202649:31pending
From the archive: ‘A dizzying maze’: how the UK immigration system is geared to...
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Jul 29, 202634:20pending
‘It is comforting to be haunted’: how attitudes to abortion have changed through...
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Jul 27, 202637:50pending
What training my chaotic dog taught me about power, control – and human beings
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Pinker’s progress: the celebrity scientist at the centre of the culture wars
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Jul 22, 202652:14pending
Saint Levant: the pop star from Gaza caught between passionate fandom and bitter...
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Jul 20, 202641:13pending
‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher i...
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From the archive: Battle of the botanic garden: the horticulture war roiling the...
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Jul 15, 202643:07pending
‘Navigating the unknown together’: me and my idiot AI boyfriend
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Jul 13, 202638:11pending
‘He liked that people were scared of him’: my year unpicking fantasy and reality...
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Jul 10, 202637:59pending
From the archive: Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online
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Jul 8, 202633:21pending
How did Mexico’s president become the world’s most popular leftwing leader?
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Jul 6, 202652:45pending
I launched Cuba’s first independent magazine. And that’s when my troubles began
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Jul 3, 202642:20pending
From the archive: Flour power: meet the bread heads baking a better loaf
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Jul 1, 202638:30pending
‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cav...
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Jun 29, 202632:17pending
Ping-pong sponges, ‘black smokers’ and floating somethings: the secrets of the d...
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Jun 26, 202629:40pending
From the archive: No coach, no agent, no ego: the incredible story of the ‘Lione...
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Jun 24, 202645:10pending
‘Seriously the best boss ever’: inside the world of Jeffrey Epstein’s assistant
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Jun 22, 202648:58pending
‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuza
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Jun 19, 202640:55pending
From the archive: Terrorists, cultists – or champions of Iranian democracy? The...
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Jun 17, 202648:26pending
As a Ukrainian journalist, I’ve covered the US for 20 years. I find it increasin...
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Jun 15, 202634:11pending
‘Should we leave them to die?’ The battle over how to save orangutans from the c...
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Jun 12, 202642:05pending
From the archive: Sold to the Trump family: one of the last undeveloped islands...
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Jun 10, 202621:11pending
Prisoner number 804: the plot to erase Imran Khan
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Jun 8, 202648:19pending
‘I couldn’t breathe’: the sinister spread of France’s killer seaweed
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From the archive: Three abandoned children, two missing parents and a 40-year my...
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Jun 3, 202647:37pending
After a hard-fought victory to legalise medical cannabis in the UK, why is it st...
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Jun 1, 202629:46pending
Asian mothers, bad feelings: notes on an all-conquering stereotype
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May 29, 202633:18pending
From the archive:‘I feel like I’m selling my soul’: inside the crisis at Juventu...
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May 27, 202644:43pending
‘I had poked the bear right in the eye’: my fight to renounce my Russian citizen...
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May 25, 202634:55pending
On the trail with the hunters who believe shooting big game can save Africa’s wi...
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May 22, 202629:24pending
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