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

From the archive: Sudan’s outsider: how a paramilitary leader fell out with the army and plunged the country into war

The great silence: why haven’t we found any aliens yet?

Introducing Black Box: The Chatbots

The body snatchers: how a young Nigerian man was lured to London in an organ-trafficking plot

From the archive: ‘Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic’

‘I can sense Sinatra enter my body and exit my lungs’: aboard the celebrity impersonators’ cruise

Best of 2026…so far: ‘Any other child would have died’: the miraculous survival of Nada Itrab

Best of 2026…so far: Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong

‘The war leaked into every lesson’: learning Ukrainian in a country under siege

Best of 2026 … so far: Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother

Best of 2026 … so far: Asian mothers, bad feelings: notes on an all-conquering stereotype

Iraq’s impossible predicament: why the country is trapped between Iran and the US

Best of 2026…so far: Endo dreams of sushi: a trip around Japan with one of the world’s greatest chefs

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?

The Dacre dynasty: how Britain’s rightwing press was radicalised

Best of 2026…so far: ‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK

Best of 2026…so far: My maddening battle with chronic fatigue syndrome: ‘On my worst days, it feels almost demonic’

‘This process has turned into a form of torture’: inside the trial of Erdoğan’s challenger

‘It makes your heart sing’: can a pioneering project show that rewilding really works?

From the archive: ‘A dizzying maze’: how the UK immigration system is geared to reject