The audio long read

Schedule Changes to the Audio Long Read

For the month of February, we’ll be making a slight change to our production schedule. For the...

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‘If you win the popular imagination, you change the game’: why we need new stories on climate

So much is happening, both wonderful and terrible – and it matters how we tell it. We can’t erase...

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‘We can’t even get basic care done’: what it’s like doing 12-hour shifts on an understaffed NHS

The NHS saved my life once, and inspired me to change career. But when I started as a healthcare...

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From the archive – The selling of the Krays: how two mediocre criminals created their own legend

We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...

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‘It was a set-up, we were fooled’: the coalmine that ate an Indian village

In a pristine forest in central India, the multibillion-dollar mining giant Adani has razed trees...

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The price of ‘sugar free’: are sweeteners as harmless as we thought?

We know we need to cut down on sugar. But replacing it with artificial compounds isn’t...

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From the archive: El Chapo: what the rise and fall of the kingpin reveals about the war on drugs

We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...

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Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site

Nothing is produced at Sellafield any more. But making safe what is left behind is an almost...

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Becoming a chatbot: my life as a real estate AI’s human backup

For one weird year, I was the human who stepped in to make sure a property chatbot didn’t blow...

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From the archive: Who killed the prime minister? The unsolved murder that still haunts Sweden

We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...

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‘The Godfather, Saudi-style’: inside the palace coup that brought MBS to power

Not long ago, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Nayef, was all set to assume power. But...

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‘They want toys to get their children into Harvard’: have we been getting playthings all wrong?

For decades we’ve been using toys to cram learning into playtime – and toys have been marketed as...

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From the archive: How the ‘rugby rape trial’ divided Ireland

We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...

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Iran’s moment of truth: what will it take for the people to topple the regime?

Three months after the uprising began, demonstrators are still risking their lives. Will this...

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Best of 2022: ‘Is this justice?’: why Sudan is facing a multibillion-dollar bill for 9/11

Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long...

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Best of 2022: The amazing true(ish) story of the ‘Honduran Maradona’

Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long...

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Best of 2022: ‘Parents are frightened for themselves and for their children’: an inspirational school in...

Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long...

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Best of 2022: The sludge king: how one man turned an industrial wasteland into his own El Dorado

Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long...

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Best of 2022: ‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder

Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long...

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Best of 2022: Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker: the strange case of the Nave Andromeda

Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long...

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