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The Audio Long Read

by The Guardian
300 EPISODES
Jan 2021
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After a hard-fought victory to legalise medical cannabis in the UK, why is it still so hard to access?
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After a hard-fought victory to legalise medical cannabis in the UK, why is it still so hard to access?
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Asian mothers, bad feelings: notes on an all-conquering stereotype
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From the archive:‘I feel like I’m selling my soul’: inside the crisis at Juventus
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‘I had poked the bear right in the eye’: my fight to renounce my Russian citizenship
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On the trail with the hunters who believe shooting big game can save Africa’s wildlife
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From the archive: Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times
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How to survive the information crisis: ‘We once talked about fake news – now reality itself feels fake’
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Stateside with Kai and Carter: Stacey Abrams on why gutting of the US Voting Rights Act is ‘evil’
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‘Lawrence is karma’: the gangster who became an icon of Modi’s India
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From the archive: How western travel influencers got tangled up in Pakistan’s politics
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The impossible promise: are we witnessing the return of fascism?
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‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK
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From the archive: No cults, no politics, no ghouls: how China censors the video game world
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Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother
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‘Any other child would have died’: the miraculous survival of Nada Itrab
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From the archive: the impossible job: inside the world of Premier League referees
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Inside China’s robotics revolution
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Endo dreams of sushi: a trip around Japan with one of the world’s greatest chefs
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From the archive: The high cost of living in a disabling world
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Teacher v chatbot: my journey into the classroom in the age of AI
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35,000 pints of stolen Guinness, 950 wheels of pilfered cheese: can the UK’s cargo theft crisis be stopped?
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From the archive: Foreign mothers, foreign tongues: ‘In another universe, she could have been my friend’
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How the US far right bought into the myth of white South Africa’s persecution
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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying
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From the archive: Freedom without constraints: how the US squandered its cold war victory
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My maddening battle with chronic fatigue syndrome: ‘On my worst days, it feels almost demonic’
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Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong
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From the archive: the butcher’s shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)
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‘I felt betrayed, naked’: did a prize-winning novelist steal a woman’s life story?
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What was Doge? How Elon Musk tried to gamify government
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From the archive: Are we really prisoners of geography?
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Power without a throne: how Khalifa Haftar controls Libya
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Off Duty: The Crime
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‘The children are not safe here’: the Nigerian couple fighting infanticide
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From the archive: ‘Parents are frightened for themselves and for their children’: an inspirational school in impossible times
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Access denied: why Muslims worldwide are being ‘debanked’
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Shock, awe, death, joy and looting: how the Guardian covered the outbreak of the Iraq war
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From the archive: ‘Iran was our Hogwarts’: my childhood between Tehran and Essex
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‘Pretty birds and silly moos’: the women behind the Sex Discrimination Act
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‘What I see in clinic is never a set of labels’: are we in danger of overdiagnosing mental illness? -podcast
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From the archive: China’s troll king: how a tabloid editor became the voice of Chinese nationalism
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I used to report from the West Bank. Twenty years after my last visit, I was shocked by how much worse it is today
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Out of the ruins: will Aleppo ever be rebuilt?
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From the archive: Why can’t we agree on what’s true any more?
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A century in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot
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Inside voice: what can our thoughts reveal about the nature of consciousness?
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From the archive: ‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that help explain Britain today
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What technology takes from us – and how to take it back
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The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age
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From the archive: Do we need a new theory of evolution?
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