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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Fake film deals and emails from top agents: who is behind the explosion in literary scams?

2026-11-13 · 33 min

Writers are being bombarded daily with invitations from fake book groups and offers to publicise their work. For the scamming industry, aspiring authors can be a soft touch By Snigdha Poonam. Read by Maya Saroya. Help…
From the archive: Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI E

2026-11-11 · 56 min

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 2023: Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn…
Everyone hates Oxford Street. Will pedestrianisation save it?

2026-11-09 · 35 min

On Monday 26 October, the busiest shopping street in Europe was closed to traffic. The hope is that an unloved and polluted thoroughfare will turn into somewhere that people actually want to spend time By Dan Hancox.…
Why Woke 2.0 is taking on Trump and establishment politics | Nesrine Malik | Radical Thinking E

2026-11-08 · 1 hr 3 min

Today’s political conversation is dominated by one topic above all: race. The Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik has been way ahead of the pack in diagnosing how immigrants, their children and grandchildren are reshaping…
‘The last bastion is gone’: the US right idolised Orbán’s Hungary. Can they recover now he has fallen? E

2026-11-06 · 46 min

Over the past decade, Hungary has been a beacon for the ‘postliberal’ right, with pro-Trump thinkers making regular pilgrimages to Budapest. Now Orbán is gone, how will the movement adapt? By Brian Goodman. Read by…
From the archive: The trials of Robert Habeck: is the world’s most powerful green politician doomed to fail? E

2026-11-04 · 49 min

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 2023: A year ago, Germany’s vice-chancellor was one of the…
A perfect storm: how the super El Niño is devastating the fishing industry

2026-11-02 · 32 min

Peru’s anchoveta have made up about a 10th of the entire global commercial fishing catch since 1970, more than any other fish. A combination of warming seas and decades-long overfishing spells disaster By Geoff Mann.…
‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bomb E

2026-10-30 · 44 min

On 14 January this year, army and navy squads faced an unprecedented challenge: one bomb on a Plymouth building site, another floating on a dredger in Exmouth. That afternoon, the clock started ticking By Samira…
From the archive: The disabled villain: why sensitivity reading can’t kill off this ugly trope

2026-10-28 · 33 min

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 2023: For centuries, fictional narratives have used outer…
Fixer, financier, spymaster: how the UAE’s Sheikh Tahnoon is setting his sights on AI dominance E

2026-10-26 · 51 min

The Emirati royal is increasingly influential on the world stage. Some see him as a visionary. Others compare him to a Bond villain. Who is he? By Jack Shenker. Read by Selva Rasalingam. Help support our independent…

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