The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

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Three times a week, The Audio Long Read podcast brings you the Guardian’s exceptional longform journalism in audio form. Covering topics from politics and culture to philosophy and sport, as well as investigations and current affairs.

Latest episode‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bombOctober 30, 2026 · 44 min

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Latest episodes

1. ‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bombOctober 30, 2026 · 44 min
2. From the archive: The disabled villain: why sensitivity reading can’t kill off this ugly tropeOctober 28, 2026 · 33 min
3. Fixer, financier, spymaster: how the UAE’s Sheikh Tahnoon is setting his sights on AI dominanceOctober 26, 2026 · 51 min
4. “Culture is stagnant, so politics is stuck” – playwright James Graham | Radical ThinkingOctober 25, 2026 · 47 min
5. Why am I obsessed with China’s ancient golden age? I took my daughter on a trip to find outOctober 23, 2026 · 36 min
6. The Netanyahu doctrine: how Israel’s longest-serving leader reshaped the country in his imageOctober 21, 2026 · 43 min
7. A tale of two trap houses: being cuckooed ruined my friend’s life – but did it then help save him?October 19, 2026 · 41 min
8. ‘Austerity is inevitably painful’. How Michael Gove justifies his politics | Radical Thinking with Aditya ChakraborttyOctober 18, 2026 · 58 min
9. ‘A completely unique opportunity’: the secretive process that will decide the BBC’s futureOctober 16, 2026 · 40 min
10. From the archive: ‘Voters are unhappier with the NHS than they’ve been for 30 years. As a GP, I feel the same’October 14, 2026 · 36 min

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