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by The Guardian
300 EPISODES
Jan 2021
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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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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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Walking into disaster: the narcotrafficking scandal that blew up the BVI
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Trump’s assault on the Smithsonian: ‘The goal is to reframe the entire culture of the US’
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From the archive: the free speech panic: how the right concocted a crisis
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‘We hate it. It’s desecration’: the real cost of HS2
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Death on the inside: as a prison officer, I saw how the system perpetuates violence
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From the archive: The King of Kowloon: my search for the cult graffiti prophet of Hong Kong
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We published explosive stories about the president of El Salvador. Now we can’t go home
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‘We were forced to burn bodies’: will survivors of the Tadamon massacres see justice?
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From the archive: The last humanist: how Paul Gilroy became the most vital guide to our age of crisis
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‘The English person with a Chinese stomach’: how Fuchsia Dunlop became a Sichuan food hero
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The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’
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From the archive: Kudos, leaderboards, QOMs: how fitness app Strava became a religion
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Hard to digest: we still live in Fast Food Nation
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‘I wish I could say I kept my cool’: my maddening experience with the NHS wheelchair service
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From the archive: The cartel, the journalist and the gangland killings that rocked the Netherlands
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Inside the rise and fall of Podemos: ‘We believed we had a stake in the future’
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Best of 2025: ‘A relentless, destructive energy’: inside the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon
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Best of 2025: ‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning
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Best of 2025: The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job
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Best of 2025: Life in a ‘sinking nation’: Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land
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