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The Audio Long Read

by The Guardian
270 EPISODES
Jan 2021
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Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’
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Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’
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From the archive: ‘We need to break the junk food cycle’: how to fix Britain’s failing food system
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The rise and fall of the British cult that hid in plain sight
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Best of 2025 … so far: ‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star
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Best of 2025 … so far: ‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies?
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The go-between: how Qatar became the global capital of diplomacy
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Best of 2025 … so far: an English gentleman, a crooked lawyer: the secrets of Stephen David Jones
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Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights?
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Best of 2025 … so far: The savage suburbia of Helen Garner: ‘I wanted to dong Martin Amis with a bat’
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Best of 2025 … so far: ‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son
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How Pakistan fell in love with sushi
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Best of 2025 … so far: ‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis?
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Best of 2025 … so far: the great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?
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The Shining: my trip to the G7 horror show with Emmanuel Macron
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Are we witnessing the death of international law?
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From the archive: Bicycle graveyards: why do so many bikes end up underwater?
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Poison in the water: the town with the world’s worst case of forever chemicals contamination
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‘A relentless, destructive energy’: inside the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon
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From the archive: how two BBC journalists risked their jobs to reveal the truth about Jimmy Savile
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The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins
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From the archive: The sludge king: how one man turned an industrial wasteland into his own El Dorado
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Sold to the Trump family: one of the last undeveloped islands in the Mediterranean
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How does woke start winning again?
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From the archive: The death of the department store
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‘Do you have a family?’: midlife with no kids, ageing parents – and no crisis
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From the archive: ‘You can’t be the player’s friend’: inside the secret world of tennis umpires
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My husband and son suffered strokes, 30 years apart. Shockingly little had changed
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‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star
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Why does Switzerland have more nuclear bunkers than any other country?
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From the archive: ‘A nursery of the Commons’: how the Oxford Union created today’s ruling political class
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‘Outdated and unjust’: can we reform global capitalism?
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Extremely loud and incredibly scouse: how Jamie Carragher conquered football punditry
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From the archive: Burying Leni Riefenstahl: one woman’s lifelong crusade against Hitler’s favourite film-maker
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‘You can let go now’: inside the hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain
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An English gentleman, a crooked lawyer: the secrets of Stephen David Jones
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From the archive: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: three days with a giant of African literature
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Death, divorce and the magic of kitchen objects: how to find hope in loss
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Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode 1
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A deadly mission: how Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira tried to warn the world about the Amazon’s destruction
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From the archive: Alan Yentob: the last impresario
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‘We know what is happening, we cannot walk away’: how the Guardian bore witness to horror in former Yugoslavia
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The ancient psychedelics myth: ‘People tell tourists the stories they think are interesting for them’
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From the archive: The lost Jews of Nigeria
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‘We thought we could change the world’: how an idealistic fight against miscarriages of justice turned sour
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‘All other avenues have been exhausted’: Is legal action the only way to save the planet?
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From the archive: Super-prime mover: Britain’s most successful estate agent
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A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the far right
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‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son
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From the archive: What lies beneath: the truth about France’s top serial killer expert
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‘Why would he take such a risk?’ How a famous Chinese author befriended his censor
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