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.

  1. ‘The jobless should lead the attack’: a radical Jamaican journalist in 1920s London

    2 DAYS AGO

    ‘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 familiar to us today By Yvonne Singh. Read by Karl Queensborough. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

    32 min
  2. From the archive: ‘We are so divided now’: how China controls thought and speech beyond its borders

    4 DAYS AGO

    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, from 2021: the arrest of a Tibetan New York city cop on spying charges plays into the community’s long-held suspicions that the People’s Republic is watching them By Lauren Hilgers. Read by Emily Woo Zeller. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

    41 min
  3. Special Edition: Behind the scenes at the Long Read

    5 DAYS AGO · BONUS

    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 Charlotte Higgins and Hettie O’Brien. The Guardian long read magazine is available to order at theguardian.com/longreadmag In this issue, you’ll find pieces on how MrBeast became the world’s biggest YouTube star, how Emmanuel Macron deals with Donald Trump, and shocking revelations at the British Museum. Plus: what’s behind our rampant steroid use?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

    20 min
  4. Counting down to zero: the final warning from a climate diplomat

    6 DAYS AGO

    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 at the last bell By Peter Betts. Read by Andrew McGregor. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

    27 min
  5. Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet

    7 NOV

    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-century life By Samanth Subramanian. Read by Raj Ghatak. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

    33 min

  6. 5 NOV

    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, from 2022: Kenya’s great lakes are flooding, in a devastating and long-ignored environmental disaster that is displacing hundreds of thousands of people By Carey Baraka. Read by Reice Weathers. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

    28 min

  7. 3 NOV

    ‘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 since the pandemic. To his fans, he’s part newscaster, part professor, part friend By Lauren Hilgers. Read by G Cheng. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

    31 min

  8. 31 OCT

    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 Tom Lamont. Read by Elis James. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

    31 min
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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.

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  • Channel
    The Guardian
  • Creator
    The Guardian
  • Years Active
    2012 - 2025
  • Episodes
    624
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    The Audio Long Read

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