The Audio Long Read
The Audio Long Read podcast is a selection of the Guardian’s long reads, giving you the opportunity to get on with your day while listening to some of the finest journalism the Guardian has to offer, including in-depth writing from around the world on immigration, crime, business, the arts and much more
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Selling cheap fakes of a successful product makes horribly good business sense. Is there any way to stop it?Podcast
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Five million payphone calls are still made each year in the UK. Who is making them – and why?Podcast
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This week, from 2018: The cameras have gone – but the suffering endures. Daniel Trilling deconstructs the beliefs that still shape policy and public opinionPodcast
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For the first time in years, its role has become a topic of furious debate. But what do we talk about when we talk about Nato?Podcast
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What’s behind the indestructible appeal of the robotic snack?Podcast
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This week, from 2016: A former murder capital of the US, Camden, New Jersey has created its first cold case squad. Can solving old killings help restore an embattled community’s trust in law and order?Podcast
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Days after fire destroyed the overcrowded camp, six inmates were charged with arson. Greece is now opening ‘prison-like’ secure camps in the Aegean islands as part of a growing tendency to criminalise refugeesPodcast
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Until the 1990s, there were almost no Jews in Nigeria. Now thousands have enthusiastically taken up the faith. Why?Podcast
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This week, from 2018: ‘Natural wine’ advocates say everything about the modern industry is ethically, ecologically and aesthetically wrong – and have triggered the biggest split in the wine world for a generationPodcast
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Gap’s clothes defined an era, but the brand has been steadily declining for years. Can a collaboration with Kanye West revive its fortunes – or is it just another sign of a company flailing around for an identity?Podcast
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At the Oxford university debating society in the 80s, a generation of aspiring politicians honed the art of winning using jokes, rather than factsPodcast
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This week, from 2018: The credibility of establishment figures has been demolished by technological change and political upheavals. But it’s too late to turn back the clockPodcast
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Forensic scientist Angela Gallop has helped to crack many of the UK’s most notorious murder cases. But today she fears the whole field – and justice itself – is at riskPodcast
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Not all cryptocurrency investors fit the cliches. Many are people looking to somehow claw their way out of a life of constant strugglePodcast
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This week, from 2017: It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert MaxwellPodcast
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To eat in the modern world is often to eat in a state of profound sensory disengagement. It shouldn’t have to be this wayPodcast
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Armed conflict between the world’s two superpowers, while not yet inevitable, has become a real possibility. The 2020s will be the decade of living dangerouslyPodcast
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This week, from 2018: Work has ruled our lives for centuries, and it does so today more than ever. But a new generation of thinkers insists there is an alternativePodcast
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The Audio Long Read How south London became a talent factory for Black British footballers – podcast
From the playing fields of Lewisham and Bromley to the Premier League, south London’s football clubs have nurtured wave after wave of stars. And these players have become proud symbols of a place reshaped by each new generation of migrants.Podcast
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More and more young people are enticed by the glittering promises of a career as an influencer – but it’s usually someone else getting richPodcast