The Guardian's Audio Long Reads
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The Guardian's Audio Long Reads podcasts are a selection of the Guardians long read articles which are published in the paper and online. It gives you the opportunity to get on with your day whilst listening to some of the finest journalism the Guardian has to offer: in-depth writing from around the world on immigration, crime, business, the arts and much more.
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From the archive: Splendid isolation: how I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours
24/05/2023 Duración: 37minWe are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors This week, from 2020: My life seemed to be getting busier, faster: I felt constantly short of time – so I stepped outside it for a day and a night and did nothing. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking
22/05/2023 Duración: 42minOur two-year investigation suggests that the tech giant Meta is struggling to prevent criminals from using its platforms to buy and sell children for sex More from this series: Rights and freedom Content warning – the following article contains descriptions of child sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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‘I feel like I’m selling my soul’: inside the crisis at Juventus
19/05/2023 Duración: 42minA series of financial scandals have rocked Italy’s most glamorous club. But is the trouble at Juventus symptomatic of a deeper rot in world football?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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From the archive: How ultra-processed food took over your shopping basket
17/05/2023 Duración: 39minWe are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors This week, from 2020: It’s cheap, attractive and convenient, and we eat it every day – it’s difficult not to. But is ultra-processed food making us ill and driving the global obesity crisis?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Sleeping beauties: the evolutionary innovations that wait millions of years to come good
15/05/2023 Duración: 28minSome organisms truck along slowly for aeons before suddenly surging into dominance – and something similar often happens with human inventions, too. But why?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Sudan’s outsider: how a paramilitary leader fell out with the army and plunged the country into war
12/05/2023 Duración: 40minThe civilians of Sudan have been trying to throw off military rule for decades, but now find themselves caught in the middle of a deadly power struggle between former allies turned bitter opponents. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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From the archive: Cod wars to food banks: how a Lancashire fishing town is hanging on
10/05/2023 Duración: 31minWe are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2020: When I grew up there, Fleetwood was a tough but proud fishing port. It’s taken some knocks in the years since, but not everyone has given up on it.. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Are coincidences real?
08/05/2023 Duración: 32minThe rationalist in me knows that coincidences are inevitable, mundane, meaningless. But I can’t deny there is something strange and magical in them, too.. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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‘The torture’s real. The time I did was real’: the Belfast man waterboarded by the British army
05/05/2023 Duración: 39minLiam Holden went to prison for 17 years on the basis of a confession he made after being tortured by British soldiers in 1972. Now the government is making it harder for people like him to get justice. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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From the archive: Are your tinned tomatoes picked by slave labour?
03/05/2023 Duración: 01h06minWe are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors This week, from 2019: How the Italian mafia makes millions by exploiting migrants. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Will flying ever be green?
01/05/2023 Duración: 29minThe race is on to develop a battery-powered aircraft. But not everyone’s convinced it will bring us closer to net-zero flight. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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How Deborah Levy can change your life
28/04/2023 Duración: 31minFrom her shimmering novels to her ‘living autobiographies’, Deborah Levy’s work inspires a devotion few literary authors ever achieve. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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From the archive: My four miscarriages: why is losing a pregnancy so shrouded in mystery?
26/04/2023 Duración: 42minWe are exploring the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2020: After losing four pregnancies, Jennie Agg set out to unravel the science of miscarriage. Then, a few months in, she found out she was pregnant again – just as the coronavirus pandemic hit. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times
24/04/2023 Duración: 53minHistorians aren’t supposed to make predictions, but Yale professor Timothy Snyder has become known for his dire warnings – and many of them have been proved correct. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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The impossible job: inside the world of Premier League referees
21/04/2023 Duración: 01h03minPlayers, pundits and fans complain bitterly that referees are getting worse each season – but is that fair?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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From the archive: The race to create a perfect lie detector, and the dangers of succeeding
19/04/2023 Duración: 35minWe are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2019: AI and brain-scanning technology could soon make it possible to reliably detect when people are lying. But do we really want to know?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Three abandoned children, two missing parents and a 40-year mystery
17/04/2023 Duración: 44minElvira and her brothers, Ricard and Ramón, were left at a train station in Barcelona aged two, four and five. As an adult, when Elvira decided to look for her parents, she discovered a family history wilder than anything she had imagined. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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The Ciskei experiment: a libertarian fantasy in apartheid South Africa
14/04/2023 Duración: 30minIn the 1980s, South African libertarians set up a deregulated zone that they sold to the world as ‘Africa’s Switzerland’. It was a sham, but with its clusters of sweatshops, it was very modern – and in some ways it anticipated the world we live in today. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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From the archive – The sound of icebergs melting: my journey into the Antarctic
12/04/2023 Duración: 38minWe are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors This week, from 2020: Not long after Antarctica recorded some its highest-ever temperatures, I joined a group of scientists studying how human activity is transforming the continent. It wasn’t what we saw that was most astonishing – but what we heard. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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‘They robbed me of my children’: Yemen’s war victims tell their stories
10/04/2023 Duración: 37minThe horrors of this conflict, and the lives it has taken, must not be kept hidden. As the bombs continue to fall around us, I have gathered these witness testimonies as a memory against forgetting. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod