The Guardian's Audio Long Reads
The Guardian's Audio Long Reads podcasts are a selection of the Guardian’s 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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One man’s (very polite) fight against media Islamophobia – podcastFor three years, Miqdaad Versi has waged a quixotic – and always scrupulously courteous – campaign against the endless errors and distortions in news about British Muslims. But can a thousand polite complaints make a difference?Podcast
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The myth of the she-devil: why we judge female criminals more harshly – podcastA man who kills is a murderer, but a woman guilty of violent crime becomes a proxy for all that is evil. Helena Kennedy, who once represented Myra Hindley, asks whyPodcast
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Will Nissan stay once Britain leaves? How one factory explains the Brexit business dilemma – podcastIn the 1980s, Thatcher’s government sold Britain as �?a gateway to Europe’. Nissan came to Sunderland and thrived – but now its future is uncertainPodcast
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The death of consensus: how conflict came back to politics – podcastNew Labour’s �?third way’ promised to end the clash between left and right. But did the fantasy of politics without strife create our age of anger?Podcast
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How Robyn transformed pop – podcastAfter almost a decade away, Robyn is about to release a new album. Laura Snapes examines her seismic cultural impactPodcast
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�?This guy doesn’t know anything’: the inside story of Trump’s shambolic transition team – podcastMichael Lewis, author of Moneyball and The Big Short, reveals how Trump’s bungled presidential transition set the template for his time in the White HousePodcast
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The business of voluntourism: do western do-gooders actually do harm? – podcastA holiday helping out in an orphanage can be a rewarding experience. But voluntourism supports a system that is breaking up familiesPodcast
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Finally, a cure for insomnia? – podcastWe are living through an epidemic of sleeplessness, but the medical establishment has largely ignored the problem. Can a radical new therapy help you get some sleep?Podcast
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A giant crawling brain: the jaw-dropping world of termites – podcastAt least half of termite studies used to be about how to kill them. But science is discovering their extraordinary usefulnessPodcast
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The real Goldfinger: the London banker who broke the world – podcastThe true story of how the City of London invented offshore banking – and set the rich freePodcast
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�?Human impulses run riot’: China’s shocking pace of change – podcastThirty years ago, politics was paramount. Now, only money counts. China’s leading novelist examines a nation that has transformed in a single lifetimePodcast
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Is compassion fatigue inevitable in an age of 24-hour news? – podcastWe have never been more aware of the appalling events that occur around the world every day. But in the face of so much horror, is there a danger that we become numb to the headlines – and does it matter if we do?Podcast
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The end of Atlanticism: has Trump killed the ideology that won the cold war? – podcastThe foreign policy establishment has been lamenting its death for half a century. But Atlanticism has long been a convenient mythPodcast
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How to be human: the man who was raised by wolves – podcastAbandoned as a child, Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja survived alone in the wild for 15 years. But living with people proved to be even more difficultPodcast
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The only way to end the class divide: the case for abolishing private schools – podcastThe continuing gap between state and private education is reinforcing privilege and harming the prospects of another generation. The only solution is integrationPodcast
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Denialism: what drives people to reject the truth – podcastFrom vaccines to climate change to genocide, a new age of denialism is upon us. Why have we failed to understand it?Podcast
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How TripAdvisor changed travel – podcastThe world’s biggest travel site has turned the industry upside down – but now it is struggling to deal with the same kinds of problems that are vexing other tech giants like Facebook, Google and TwitterPodcast
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BDS: how a controversial non-violent movement has transformed the Israeli-Palestinian debate – podcastIsrael sees the international boycott campaign as an existential threat to the Jewish state. Palestinians regard it as their last resortPodcast
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How Matteo Salvini pulled Italy to the far right – podcastAfter years on the fringes of Italian politics, the populist leader of the Lega has stoked anti-immigrant panic and barged into powerPodcast
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�?My death is not my own’: the limits of legal euthanasia – podcastHenk Blanken knows Parkinson’s disease might one day take him past the point at which he wants to carry on. Dutch law says it is legal for a doctor to help him die when the time comes – but there’s no guarantee that will happenPodcast


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