The Audio Long Read
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‘A completely unique opportunity’: the secretive process that will decide the BBC’s future
Oct 16, 202640 min
From the archive: ‘Voters are unhappier with the NHS than they’ve been for 30 years. As a GP, I feel the same’
Oct 14, 202635 min
‘A crisis of authenticity’: the truth about food influencers
Oct 12, 202636 min
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty
Oct 11, 202650 min
Labour’s last chance? The people shaping Andy Burnham’s grand plans for Britain
Oct 9, 202639 min
From the archive – No place like home: my bitter return to Palestine
Oct 7, 202635 min
‘This is dangerous’: slime moulds and the bitter debate over the nature of intelligence
Oct 5, 202643 min
Introducing Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty
Oct 4, 202652 min
The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear
Oct 2, 202635 min
From the archive: How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking
Sep 30, 202647 min
The flat-pack skyscraper: how wood can shape the cities of the future
Sep 28, 202627 min
The other Post Office scandal: how organised crime launders money on the high street
Sep 25, 202627 min
From the archive: ‘I know where the bodies are buried’: one woman’s mission to change how the police investigate rape
Sep 23, 202654 min
A bungled bomb plot in Poland exposed a spy – but whose spy was he?
Sep 21, 202651 min
‘If you build something vastly smarter than you, it better be on your side’: can we stop AI from deceiving us?
Sep 18, 202628 min
The rubbishscapes of Essex: why our buried trash is back to haunt us
Sep 16, 202628 min
Democracy v the machine: the birth of the digital age and the warnings that were ignored
Sep 14, 202646 min
The long shadow of Argentina’s dictatorship: she wasn’t who she thought she was. Neither was her father
Sep 11, 202643 min
From the archive: Sudan’s outsider: how a paramilitary leader fell out with the army and plunged the country into war
Sep 9, 202642 min
The great silence: why haven’t we found any aliens yet?
Sep 7, 202638 min
Introducing Black Box: The Chatbots
Sep 6, 202639 min
The body snatchers: how a young Nigerian man was lured to London in an organ-trafficking plot
Sep 4, 202636 min
From the archive: ‘Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic’
Sep 2, 202637 min
‘I can sense Sinatra enter my body and exit my lungs’: aboard the celebrity impersonators’ cruise
Aug 31, 202635 min
Best of 2026…so far: ‘Any other child would have died’: the miraculous survival of Nada Itrab
Aug 28, 202651 min
Best of 2026…so far: Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong
Aug 26, 202639 min
‘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