The Audio Long Read
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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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Recent 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
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- ‘The war leaked into every lesson’: learning Ukrainian in a country under siege
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