The audio long read

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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From the archive: Going underground: inside the world of the mole-catchers

We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...

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The Blackstone rebellion: how one country took on the world’s biggest commercial landlord

The giant asset management firm used to target places where people worked and shopped. Then it...

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Ransomware hunters: the self-taught tech geniuses fighting cybercrime

Hackers are increasingly taking users’ data hostage and demanding huge sums for its release. They...

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From the archive: The school beneath the wave: the unimaginable tragedy of Japan’s tsunami

We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...

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Allergic to the world: can medicine help people with severe intolerance to chemicals?

Whether it’s organic or psychosomatic or something in between, multiple chemical sensitivity can...

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Divine comedy: the standup double act who turned to the priesthood

Josh and Jack used to interrogate life via absurdist jokes and sketches. But the questions they...

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From the archive: Why we should bulldoze the business school

This week, from 2018: There are 13,000 business schools on Earth. That’s 13,000 too many. And I...

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The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion?

A growing chorus of scientists and philosophers argue that free will does not exist. Could they...

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Unboxing, bad baby and evil Santa: how YouTube got swamped with creepy content for kids

When children first started flocking to YouTube, some seriously strange stuff started to appear –...

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From the archive: ‘State capture’: the corruption investigation that has shaken South Africa

We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...

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‘Farmed’: why were so many Black children fostered by white families in the UK?

From the 1950s, thousands of children of African parents were happily fostered by white British...

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Can I Tell You a Secret: episode one of a new podcast

In this new six-episode podcast, Guardian journalist Sirin Kale investigates the story of a...

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Saviour or wrecker? The truth about the Treasury

It’s true that the UK Treasury thrives under the pressure of a crisis, from the 2007 financial...

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From the archive – Poles apart: the bitter conflict over a nation’s communist history

We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...

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The sludge king: how one man turned an industrial wasteland into his own El Dorado

When a Romanian businessman returned to his hometown and found a city blighted by mining waste,...

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‘Parents are frightened for themselves and for their children’: an inspirational school in impossible times

Austerity, the pandemic and now the cost of living crisis have left many schools in a parlous...

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From the archive: What kind of King will Charles III be?

We are raiding the Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new...

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‘Is this justice?’: why Sudan is facing a multibillion-dollar bill for 9/11

The families of some 9/11 victims are still pursuing compensation from those complicit in the...

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Special edition: ‘London Bridge is down’: the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death

Following the news of the Queen’s death, we are bringing you a piece from our archive from our...

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