The Audio Long Read
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The Audio Long Read
The Audio Long Read podcast is a selection of the Guardian’s long reads, giving you the opportunity to get on with your day while listening to some of the finest longform journalism the Guardian has to offer, including in-depth writing from around the world on current affairs, climate change, global...
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The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist
Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely...
‘The jobless should lead the attack’: a radical Jamaican journalist in 1920s London
Economic insecurity, race riots, incendiary media … Claude McKay was one of the few Black journalists covering a turbulent period that sounds all too...
From the archive: ‘We are so divided now’: how China controls thought and speech beyond its borders
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, f...
Special Edition: Behind the scenes at the Long Read
To celebrate the launch of the new Guardian Long Read magazine this week, join the long read editor David Wolf in discussion with regular contributors...
Counting down to zero: the final warning from a climate diplomat
Before Peter Betts died in 2023, he wanted to pass on what he had learned over many years of negotiating at Cops – including how Paris 2015 was saved...
Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet
A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-ce...
From the archive: A drowning world: Kenya’s quiet slide underwater
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, f...
‘Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth’: a Chinese journalist on the US under Trump
Once a stalwart of Hong Kong’s journalism scene, Wang Jian has found a new audience on YouTube, dissecting global politics and US-China relations sinc...
The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job
From murder scenes to whale blubber, Ben Giles has seen it – and cleaned it – all. In their stickiest hours, people rely on him to restore order By To...
From the archive: The queen of crime-solving
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, f...
A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0
If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical ag...
‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang
In the 1970s, the radical leftwing German terrorist organisation may have spread fear through public acts of violence – but its inner workings were ch...
From the archive: Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famous face
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, f...
The origins of today’s conflict between American Jews over Israel
In the early years, American Jewish support for Israel was a fraught issue. The turning point was the six-day war of 1967, which solidified a strength...
‘I have to do it’: why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China
In 2020, after spending half his life in the US, Song-Chun Zhu took a one-way ticket to China. Now he might hold the key to who wins the global AI rac...
From the archive: ‘Infertility stung me’: Black motherhood and me
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, f...
‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning
Over a few brutal days in March, as sectarian violence and revenge killings tore through parts of Syria, two friends from different communities tried...
Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest
The late Kenyan novelist and activist believed erasing language was the most lasting weapon of oppression. Here, Aminatta Forna recalls the man and in...
From the archive: The Blackstone rebellion: how one country took on the world’s biggest commercial landlord
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, f...
‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster
Some days it can feel as if climate catastrophe is inevitable. But history is full of cases – such as the banning of whaling and CFCs – that show huma...
From bank robber to scholar: the Knoxville dropout fighting to change how we see addiction
Kirsten Smith was 19 when she first tried heroin; within a few years she was in prison. She says she willingly made bad choices and wants society to s...
From the archive: Divine comedy: the standup double act who turned to the priesthood
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, f...
‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?
Churning quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at the rate we are going could lead the planet to another Great Dying By Peter Brannen. Read...
Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films?
When the streaming giant began making films guided by data that aimed to please a vast audience, the results were often generic, forgettable, artless...
From the archive: Forgetting the apocalypse: why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous
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, f...
‘The forest had gone’: the storm that moved a mountain
On a small ledge in the Swiss mountains, 200 people were enjoying a summer football tournament. As night fell, they had no idea what was coming By Jon...
Life in a ‘sinking nation’: Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land
With sea levels rising, much of the nation’s population is confronting the prospect that their home may soon cease to exist. Where are they going to g...
From the archive: Sewage sleuths: the men who revealed the slow, dirty death of Welsh and English rivers
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, f...
Very British bribery: the whistleblower who exposed the UK’s dodgy arms deals with Saudi Arabia
When Ian Foxley found evidence of corruption while working at a British company in Riyadh, he alerted the MoD. He didn’t know he’d stumbled upon one o...
‘People pay to be told lies’: the rise and fall of the world’s first ayahuasca multinational
Alberto Varela claimed he wanted to use sacred plant medicine to free people’s minds. But as the organisation grew, his followers discovered a darker...
From the archive: ‘We were all wrong’: how Germany got hooked on Russian energy
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, f...
Dancing with Putin: how Austria’s former foreign minister found a new home in Russia
Karin Kneissl made headlines around the world when she invited the Russian president to her wedding in 2018. Five years later, she moved to St Petersb...
Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’
The Victorians called it ‘pernicious vomiting of pregnancy’, but modern medicine has offered no end to the torture of hyperemesis gravidarum – until n...
From the archive: ‘We need to break the junk food cycle’: how to fix Britain’s failing food system
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, f...
The rise and fall of the British cult that hid in plain sight
Philippa Barnes was a child when her family joined the Jesus Fellowship. As an adult, she helped expose the shocking scale of abuse it had perpetrated...
Best of 2025 … so far: ‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star
Every Wednesday and Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2025, in case you missed them, with an introduction fro...
Best of 2025 … so far: ‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies?
Every Wednesday and Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2025, in case you missed them, with an introduction fro...
The go-between: how Qatar became the global capital of diplomacy
The tiny, astonishingly wealthy country has become a major player on the world stage, trying to solve some of the most intractable conflicts. What’s d...
Best of 2025 … so far: an English gentleman, a crooked lawyer: the secrets of Stephen David Jones
Every Wednesday and Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2025, in case you missed them, with an introduction fro...
Best of 2025 … so far: Kahane’s ghost: how a long-dead extremist rabbi continues to haunt Israel’s politics
Every Wednesday and Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2025, in case you missed them, with an introduction fro...