300 episodes
The Audio Long Read The Guardian
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- Society & Culture
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4.2 • 134 Ratings
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The Audio Long Read podcast is a selection of the Guardian’s long reads, giving you the opportunity to get on with your day while listening to some of the finest journalism the Guardian has to offer, including in-depth writing from around the world on immigration, crime, business, the arts and much more
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From the archive: The age of perpetual crisis: how the 2010s disrupted everything but resolved nothing
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 2019: In an era of bewildering upheaval, how will the past decade be remembered? By Andy Beckett. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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How child labour in India makes the paving stones beneath our feet
Despite promises of reform, exploitation remains endemic in India’s sandstone industry, with children doing dangerous work for low pay – often to decorate driveways and gardens thousands of miles away. By Romita Saluja. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history
Advances in fields such as spectrometry and gene sequencing are unleashing torrents of new data about the ancient world – and could offer answers to questions we never even knew to ask. By Jacob Mikanowski. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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From the archive: The battle over dyslexia
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 2020: It was once a widely accepted way of explaining why some children struggled to read and write. But in recent years, some experts have begun to question the existence of dyslexia itself. By Sirin Kale. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’
New research into the dying brain suggests the line between life and death may be less distinct than previously thought. By Alex Blasdel. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Solidarity and strategy: the forgotten lessons of truly effective protest
Organising is a kind of alchemy: it turns alienation into connection, despair into dedication, and oppression into strength. By Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
Customer Reviews
Balance is king
I’m a right-wing conservative but I come here regularly because I like listening to challenging, opposing views plus I respect the quality of journalism from the Guardian, despite its political leaning. However, whilst you try to portray a neutral & objective position, the narrative frequently jumps into obvious biased territory with implied assumptions that the left is good and the right is wrong / outdated / unethical etc. Please try to minimise the blatant bias and obvious ‘glee’ in the struggles of the right when the reality is that the left is clearly unravelling in many countries and being replaced by right-wing parties in many recent elections around the world.
Great listen
Always well researched and informative. Well read and captivating stories. Apolitical
Get rid of whiny North American voices!
Great stories, but for audio stuff the narrator is obviously key. There were several stories I really want to listen to but the high-pitched nasal whine of the North Americans reading was just too unbearable.