The Audio Long Read

From the archive: ‘Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic’

From the archive: ‘Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic’

‘I can sense Sinatra enter my body and exit my lungs’: aboard the celebrity impersonators’ cruise

Best of 2026…so far: ‘Any other child would have died’: the miraculous survival of Nada Itrab

Best of 2026…so far: Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong

‘The war leaked into every lesson’: learning Ukrainian in a country under siege

Best of 2026 … so far: Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother

Best of 2026 … so far: Asian mothers, bad feelings: notes on an all-conquering stereotype

Iraq’s impossible predicament: why the country is trapped between Iran and the US

Best of 2026…so far: Endo dreams of sushi: a trip around Japan with one of the world’s greatest chefs

Best of 2026…so far: 35,000 pints of stolen Guinness, 950 wheels of pilfered cheese: can the UK’s cargo theft crisis be stopped?

The Dacre dynasty: how Britain’s rightwing press was radicalised

Best of 2026…so far: ‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK

Best of 2026…so far: My maddening battle with chronic fatigue syndrome: ‘On my worst days, it feels almost demonic’

‘This process has turned into a form of torture’: inside the trial of Erdoğan’s challenger

‘It makes your heart sing’: can a pioneering project show that rewilding really works?

From the archive: ‘A dizzying maze’: how the UK immigration system is geared to reject

‘It is comforting to be haunted’: how attitudes to abortion have changed through the ages

What training my chaotic dog taught me about power, control – and human beings

Pinker’s progress: the celebrity scientist at the centre of the culture wars

Saint Levant: the pop star from Gaza caught between passionate fandom and bitter disapproval

‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI

From the archive: Battle of the botanic garden: the horticulture war roiling the Isle of Wight

‘Navigating the unknown together’: me and my idiot AI boyfriend

‘He liked that people were scared of him’: my year unpicking fantasy and reality with a veteran of Italy’s football ultras

From the archive: Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online

How did Mexico’s president become the world’s most popular leftwing leader?

I launched Cuba’s first independent magazine. And that’s when my troubles began

From the archive: Flour power: meet the bread heads baking a better loaf

‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintings

Ping-pong sponges, ‘black smokers’ and floating somethings: the secrets of the deep sea

From the archive: No coach, no agent, no ego: the incredible story of the ‘Lionel Messi of cliff diving’

‘Seriously the best boss ever’: inside the world of Jeffrey Epstein’s assistant

‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuza

From the archive: Terrorists, cultists – or champions of Iranian democracy? The wild wild story of the MEK

As a Ukrainian journalist, I’ve covered the US for 20 years. I find it increasingly shocking

‘Should we leave them to die?’ The battle over how to save orangutans from the curse of palm oil

From the archive: Sold to the Trump family: one of the last undeveloped islands in the Mediterranean

Prisoner number 804: the plot to erase Imran Khan

‘I couldn’t breathe’: the sinister spread of France’s killer seaweed

From the archive: Three abandoned children, two missing parents and a 40-year mystery

After a hard-fought victory to legalise medical cannabis in the UK, why is it still so hard to access?

Asian mothers, bad feelings: notes on an all-conquering stereotype

From the archive:‘I feel like I’m selling my soul’: inside the crisis at Juventus

‘I had poked the bear right in the eye’: my fight to renounce my Russian citizenship

On the trail with the hunters who believe shooting big game can save Africa’s wildlife

From the archive: Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times

How to survive the information crisis: ‘We once talked about fake news – now reality itself feels fake’

Stateside with Kai and Carter: Stacey Abrams on why gutting of the US Voting Rights Act is ‘evil’

‘Lawrence is karma’: the gangster who became an icon of Modi’s India

From the archive: How western travel influencers got tangled up in Pakistan’s politics