The Audio Long Read
362 episodes — Page 1 of 8
‘The war leaked into every lesson’: learning Ukrainian in a country under siege
Aug 24, 202640 min
Best of 2026 … so far: Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother
Aug 21, 202650 min
Best of 2026 … so far: Asian mothers, bad feelings: notes on an all-conquering stereotype
Aug 19, 202634 min
Iraq’s impossible predicament: why the country is trapped between Iran and the US
Aug 17, 202625 min
Best of 2026…so far: Endo dreams of sushi: a trip around Japan with one of the world’s greatest chefs
Aug 14, 202646 min
Best of 2026…so far: 35,000 pints of stolen Guinness, 950 wheels of pilfered cheese: can the UK’s cargo theft crisis be stopped?
Aug 12, 202642 min
The Dacre dynasty: how Britain’s rightwing press was radicalised
Aug 10, 202646 min
Best of 2026…so far: ‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK
Aug 7, 202633 min
Best of 2026…so far: My maddening battle with chronic fatigue syndrome: ‘On my worst days, it feels almost demonic’
Aug 5, 202635 min
‘This process has turned into a form of torture’: inside the trial of Erdoğan’s challenger
Aug 3, 202628 min
‘It makes your heart sing’: can a pioneering project show that rewilding really works?
Jul 31, 202649 min
From the archive: ‘A dizzying maze’: how the UK immigration system is geared to reject
Jul 29, 202634 min
‘It is comforting to be haunted’: how attitudes to abortion have changed through the ages
Jul 27, 202637 min
What training my chaotic dog taught me about power, control – and human beings
Jul 24, 202629 min
Pinker’s progress: the celebrity scientist at the centre of the culture wars
Jul 22, 202652 min
Saint Levant: the pop star from Gaza caught between passionate fandom and bitter disapproval
Jul 20, 202641 min
‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI
Jul 17, 202652 min
From the archive: Battle of the botanic garden: the horticulture war roiling the Isle of Wight
Jul 15, 202643 min
‘Navigating the unknown together’: me and my idiot AI boyfriend
Jul 13, 202638 min
‘He liked that people were scared of him’: my year unpicking fantasy and reality with a veteran of Italy’s football ultras
Jul 10, 202637 min
From the archive: Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online
Jul 8, 202633 min
How did Mexico’s president become the world’s most popular leftwing leader?
Jul 6, 202652 min
I launched Cuba’s first independent magazine. And that’s when my troubles began
Jul 3, 202642 min
From the archive: Flour power: meet the bread heads baking a better loaf
Jul 1, 202638 min
‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintings
Jun 29, 202632 min
Ping-pong sponges, ‘black smokers’ and floating somethings: the secrets of the deep sea
Jun 26, 202629 min
From the archive: No coach, no agent, no ego: the incredible story of the ‘Lionel Messi of cliff diving’
Jun 24, 202645 min
‘Seriously the best boss ever’: inside the world of Jeffrey Epstein’s assistant
Jun 22, 202648 min
‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuza
Jun 19, 202640 min
From the archive: Terrorists, cultists – or champions of Iranian democracy? The wild wild story of the MEK
Jun 17, 202648 min
As a Ukrainian journalist, I’ve covered the US for 20 years. I find it increasingly shocking
Jun 15, 202634 min
‘Should we leave them to die?’ The battle over how to save orangutans from the curse of palm oil
Jun 12, 202642 min
From the archive: Sold to the Trump family: one of the last undeveloped islands in the Mediterranean
Jun 10, 202621 min
Prisoner number 804: the plot to erase Imran Khan
Jun 8, 202648 min
‘I couldn’t breathe’: the sinister spread of France’s killer seaweed
Jun 5, 202632 min
Three abandoned children, two missing parents and a 40-year mystery
Jun 3, 202647 min
After a hard-fought victory to legalise medical cannabis in the UK, why is it still so hard to access?
Jun 1, 202629 min
Asian mothers, bad feelings: notes on an all-conquering stereotype
May 29, 202633 min
From the archive:‘I feel like I’m selling my soul’: inside the crisis at Juventus
May 27, 202644 min
‘I had poked the bear right in the eye’: my fight to renounce my Russian citizenship
May 25, 202634 min
On the trail with the hunters who believe shooting big game can save Africa’s wildlife
May 22, 202629 min
From the archive: Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times
May 20, 202654 min
How to survive the information crisis: ‘We once talked about fake news – now reality itself feels fake’
May 18, 202644 min
Stateside with Kai and Carter: Stacey Abrams on why gutting of the US Voting Rights Act is ‘evil’
May 17, 202635 min
‘Lawrence is karma’: the gangster who became an icon of Modi’s India
May 15, 202634 min
From the archive: How western travel influencers got tangled up in Pakistan’s politics
May 13, 202648 min
The impossible promise: are we witnessing the return of fascism?
May 11, 202632 min
‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK
May 8, 202631 min
No cults, no politics, no ghouls: how China censors the video game world
May 6, 202642 min
Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother
May 4, 202648 min