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 cul...

#192 US · Society & Culture 430 recordings 2023 → today 3 episodes a week updated 13h ago
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The man making a business out of China’s burnout generation contributed by Lukas · Jan 27, 2025
Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain contributed by Lukas · Jan 24, 2025
From the archive: Inspired by nature: the thrilling new science that could transform medicine contributed by Lukas · Jan 22, 2025
‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies? contributed by Lukas · Jan 20, 2025
Inside the Vatican’s secret saint-making process contributed by Lukas · Jan 17, 2025
From the archive: ‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder contributed by Lukas · Jan 15, 2025
The inspiring scientists who saved the world’s first seed bank contributed by Lukas · Jan 13, 2025
The ‘mad egghead’ who built a mouse utopia contributed by Lukas · Jan 10, 2025
From the archive: Cold comfort: how cold water swimming cured my broken heart contributed by Lukas · Jan 8, 2025
Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother contributed by Lukas · Jan 6, 2025
The brain collector: the scientist unravelling the mysteries of grey matter contributed by Lukas · Jan 3, 2025
From the archive: The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine? contributed by Lukas · Jan 1, 2025
The rollercoaster king: the man behind the UK’s fastest thrill-ride contributed by Lukas · Dec 30, 2024
Best of 2024: ‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s libraries provide much more than books contributed by Lukas · Dec 27, 2024
Best of 2024: As a teenager, John was jailed for assaulting someone and stealing their bike. That was 17 years ago – will he ever be released? contributed by Lukas · Dec 23, 2024
Best of 2024: ‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s contributed by Lukas · Dec 20, 2024
Best of 2024: Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internationally educated elite contributed by Lukas · Dec 16, 2024
Revisited: Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison contributed by Lukas · Dec 13, 2024
10 years of the long read: Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers (2024) contributed by Lukas · Dec 11, 2024
10 years of the long read: ‘All that we had is gone’: my lament for war-torn Khartoum (2023) contributed by Lukas · Dec 9, 2024
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#192 Society & Culture · United States

🇦🇷 #8 · 🇷🇺 #12 · 🇳🇿 #15 · 🇫🇮 #21 · 🇿🇦 #21 · 🇮🇪 #23 · 🇵🇱 #25 · 🇮🇳 #25 · 🇮🇩 #27 · 🇬🇧 #33 · +20 more

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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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As of 2026-09-16, The Audio Long Read ranks #57 on Apple Podcasts in Argentina, and appears on charts in 3 countries.

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🇦🇷 Argentina #57 🇮🇪 Ireland #188 🇳🇿 New Zealand #195 Society & Culture #8 Apple
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First charted2025-08-20
Best ever#57 on Apple Podcasts (Argentina) · 2026-09-16
Days on chart301
Countries now3
CategoriesSociety & Culture