The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

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.

Episodes

Three abandoned children, two missing parents and a 40-year mystery

After a hard-fought victory to legalise medical cannabis in the UK, why is it still so hard to access?

Asian mothers, bad feelings: notes on an all-conquering stereotype

From the archive:‘I feel like I’m selling my soul’: inside the crisis at Juventus

‘I had poked the bear right in the eye’: my fight to renounce my Russian citizenship

On the trail with the hunters who believe shooting big game can save Africa’s wildlife

From the archive: Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times

How to survive the information crisis: ‘We once talked about fake news – now reality itself feels fake’

Stateside with Kai and Carter: Stacey Abrams on why gutting of the US Voting Rights Act is ‘evil’

‘Lawrence is karma’: the gangster who became an icon of Modi’s India

From the archive: How western travel influencers got tangled up in Pakistan’s politics

The impossible promise: are we witnessing the return of fascism?

‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK

No cults, no politics, no ghouls: how China censors the video game world

Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother

‘Any other child would have died’: the miraculous survival of Nada Itrab

From the archive: The impossible job: inside the world of Premier League referees

Inside China’s robotics revolution

Endo dreams of sushi: a trip around Japan with one of the world’s greatest chefs

From the archive: The high cost of living in a disabling world