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Ease into the weekend with our brand new podcast, showcasing some of the best Guardian and Observer writing from the week, read by talented narrators. In this episode, Marina Hyde looks at the new additions to Downing Street (2m00s), Hadley Freeman interviews Hollywood actor Will ... Show More

The Guardian has launched a new series called Reverberate that we think you’ll like. Each week, Chris Michael will explore incredible stories from around the world about when music shook history. In the first episode, we hear from Kashy Keegan, an unknown singer-songwriter in a s ... Show More

Ease into the weekend with our brand new podcast, showcasing some of the best Guardian and Observer writing from the week, read by talented narrators. In our first episode, Marina Hyde reflects on another less than stellar week for Boris Johnson (1m38s), Edward Helmore charts the ... Show More

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2020: The unmasking of the Salisbury poisoning suspects by a new digital journalism outfit was an embarrassment for Putin – an ... Show More

Jordan Klepper sits down with TDS Supervising Producer, Ian Berger, to break down the motivation and takeaways from their latest special, ‘Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: Moscow Tools.’ As pro-Russia and pro-Putin sentiment grows among Republicans, Klepper details the significa ... Show More

Behind the legend of Vladimir Putin, which America’s obsession with Russia’s meddling in the 2016 elections has only bolstered, hides a complex political landscape, history and—of course—president. To dispel the myth behind Russia’s president and explore the man underneath the fa ... Show More

Washington Post columnist George Conway lays out Trump’s endless legal challenges. Susan Glasser, a writer for The New Yorker, details Russia's direction following the death of another Putin adversary. Author Ruth Ben-Ghiat predicts the GOP's ongoing shift towards authoritarianis ... Show More

Vladimir Putin has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm. He invades his neighbours, most recently Ukraine, meddles in western elections and orders assassinations inside and outside Russia. But who is the man behind the headlines? For ye ... Show More