The Guardian's Audio Long Reads
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The Guardian's Audio Long Reads podcasts are a selection of the Guardians long read articles which are published in the paper and online. It gives you the opportunity to get on with your day whilst listening to some of the finest journalism the Guardian has to offer: in-depth writing from around the world on immigration, crime, business, the arts and much more.
Episodes
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The Guardian’s new podcast series about AI: Black Box – prologue
02/03/2024 Duration: 14minWe wanted to bring you this episode from our new series, Black Box. In it, Michael Safi explores seven stories and the thread that ties them together: artificial intelligence. In this prologue, Hannah (not her real name) has met Noah and he has changed her life for the better. So why does she have concerns about him? If you like what you hear, make sure to search and subscribe to Black Box, with new episodes every Monday and Thursday.. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Precipice of fear: the freerider who took skiing to its limits
01/03/2024 Duration: 48minJérémie Heitz has pushed freeriding to breathtaking, beautiful new extremes. But as the risks get bigger, the questions do, too. By Simon Akam. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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From the archive: How maverick rewilders are trying to turn back the tide of extinction
28/02/2024 Duration: 36minWe are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. From 2020: A handful of radical nature lovers are secretly breeding endangered species and releasing them into the wild. Many are prepared to break the law and risk the fury of the scientific establishment to save the animals they love. By Patrick Barkham. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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‘Farming is a dirty word now’: the woman helping farmers navigate a grim, uncertain future
26/02/2024 Duration: 34minIn a moment of crisis for the industry, Heather Wildman tours the country helping farmers face up to the toughest of questions – not just about the future of their business, but about their family, their identity and even their mortality. By Bella Bathurst. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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‘Ukraine fatigue’: why I’m fighting to stop the world forgetting us
23/02/2024 Duration: 22minEveryone likes to support an underdog, especially if it’s winning. But it’s one thing to win a battle, it’s quite another to win the war. And Ukraine cannot win without international support. By Olesya Khromeychuk. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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From the archive: Penthouses and poor doors: how Europe’s ‘biggest regeneration project’ fell flat
21/02/2024 Duration: 32minWe 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 2021: Few places have seen such turbocharged luxury development as Nine Elms in London. So why are prices tumbling, investors melting away and promises turning to dust? By Oliver Wainwright. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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‘Scars on every street’: the refugee camp where generations of Palestinians have lost their futures
19/02/2024 Duration: 26minEver since the displacement of 700,000 Palestinians in 1948, many have been living in dejection and squalor in camps like Shatila in Beirut. Is this the grim future the people of Gaza could now be facing? By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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‘They were dying, and they’d not had their money’: Britain’s multibillion-pound equal pay scandal
16/02/2024 Duration: 40minIn 2005, Glasgow council offered to compensate women for historic pay inequality. But it sold them short again – and soon workers all over the UK started fighting for what they were owed. By Samira Shackle. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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From the archive: The air conditioning trap: how cold air is heating the world
14/02/2024 Duration: 35minWe 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 2019: The warmer it gets, the more we use air conditioning. The more we use air conditioning, the warmer it gets. Is there any way out of this trap? By Stephen Buranyi. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: the forgotten genius who changed British food
12/02/2024 Duration: 47minNicholas Saunders was a counterculture pioneer with an endless stream of quixotic schemes and a yearning to spread knowledge – but his true legacy is a total remaking of the way Britain eats. By Jonathan Nunn. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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‘I repeatedly failed to win any awards’: my doomed career as a North Korean novelist
09/02/2024 Duration: 29minBefore I fled south, I spent years as an aspiring fiction writer in the hermit kingdom. I worked hard – but literary glory kept eluding me. By Kim Ju-sŏng. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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From the archive: From Lagos to Winchester – how a divisive Nigerian pastor built a global following
07/02/2024 Duration: 41minWe 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 2021: I first encountered TB Joshua as a teenager, when his preaching captivated my evangelical Christian community in Hampshire. Many of my friends became his ardent disciples and followed him to Lagos. How did he have such a hold over people? By Matthew McNaught. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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‘Weapons of mass migration’: how states exploit the failure of migration policies
05/02/2024 Duration: 26minJust like the war on drugs and the war on terror, efforts at stopping population movement by force often just fuel the problem. But for many claiming to confront the perceived threat, that suits all too well. By Ruben Andersson and David Keen. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Sanctuary: I grew up during The Troubles and have been seeking a place of peace ever since
02/02/2024 Duration: 36minThe cost of growing up in a low-level police state. By Darran Anderson. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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From the archive: The bells v the boutique hotel: the battle to save Britain’s oldest factory
31/01/2024 Duration: 44minWe 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 2021: Whitechapel Bell Foundry dates back to 1570, and was the factory in which Big Ben and the Liberty Bell were made. But it shut in 2017, and a fight for its future has been raging ever since. By Hettie O’Brien. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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One Swedish zoo, seven escaped chimpanzees
29/01/2024 Duration: 53minWhen the great apes at Furuvik Zoo broke free from their enclosure last winter, the keepers faced a terrible choice. This is the story of the most dramatic 72 hours of their lives. By Imogen West-Knights. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Days of the Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business
26/01/2024 Duration: 51minAndrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now coming to an end? By Alex Blasdel. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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From the archive: ‘I just needed to find my family’: the scandal of Chile’s stolen children – podcast
24/01/2024 Duration: 39minWe 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 2021: At two months old, Maria Diemar was flown to Sweden to be adopted. Years later, she tracked down her birth mother, who said her baby had been taken against her will. Now investigations are showing that she was one of thousands stolen from their parents. By Aaron Nelson. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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We have a tool to stop Israel’s war crimes: BDS
22/01/2024 Duration: 35minIn 2005, Palestinians called on the world to boycott Israel until it complied with international law. What if we had listened?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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The ghosts haunting China’s cities
19/01/2024 Duration: 28minIn the official telling, fears of malevolent spirits are a vestige of old, unenlightened village ways. But today urban China is rife with superstition about death. Why?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod