How to move a country: Fiji’s radical plan to escape rising sea levels
In Fiji, the climate crisis means dozens of villages could soon be underwater. Relocating so many...
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From the archive: China’s hi-tech war on its Muslim minority
We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...
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‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that help explain Britain today
Idealising the past is nothing new, but there is something peculiarly revealing about the way a...
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Are we really prisoners of geography?
A wave of bestselling authors claim that global affairs are still ultimately governed by the...
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From the archive: How I let drinking take over my life
We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...
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The night everything changed: waiting for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Despite all the warning signs, as I sat down for dinner with friends in Kyiv on 23 February, war...
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Megalopolis: how coastal west Africa will shape the coming century
By the end of the century, Africa will be home to 40% of the world’s population – and nowhere is...
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From the archive – Spain’s Watergate: inside the corruption scandal that changed a nation
We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...
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As the world faces the worst debt crisis in decades, the need for a global lender of last resort...
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Ukraine’s true detectives: the investigators closing in on Russian war criminals
Across the country, fact-finding teams are tirelessly gathering evidence and testimony about...
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From the archive: The Anthropocene epoch: have we entered a new phase of planetary history?
We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...
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My small, doomed stand against Margaret Thatcher’s war on truth
As a civil servant in the 1980s, I had a front row seat as the British government began to lose...
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Greenwashing a police state: the truth behind Egypt’s Cop27 masquerade
Sisi’s Egypt is making a big show of solar panels and biodegradable straws ahead of next week’s...
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From the archive: The dark history of Donald Trump’s rightwing revolt
We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...
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Psychiatry wars: the lawsuit that put psychoanalysis on trial
Forty years ago, Dr Ray Osheroff sued a US hospital for failing to give him antidepressants. The...
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Ben Roberts-Smith v the media: episode one of a new podcast
Ben Roberts-Smith v the media is a five-part series available via Guardian Australia’s Full Story...
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The amazing true(ish) story of the ‘Honduran Maradona’
For one of our many adolescent pranks, my friend and I planted tips about an obscure young...
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From the archive: ‘A zombie party’: the deepening crisis of conservatism
We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...
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The cartel, the journalist and the gangland killings that rocked the Netherlands
In a country known for its liberal drugs policies, organised crime operated for years under the...
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No place like home: my bitter return to Palestine
All my life, my exiled parents had told me about the tragedy of Palestine. Then, when I was in my...
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