Podcast Episodes
Back to Search‘Why would he take such a risk?’ How a famous Chinese author befriended his censor
Online dissent is a serious crime in China. So why did a Weibo censor help me publish posts critical of the Communist party? By Murong Xuecun. Read b…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
The mystery of the nameless girl found dead in a Spanish border town
On a summer morning in 1990, the body of a young woman appeared in a small town close to the frontier. For those who saw her, finding her identity be…
10 months ago
From the archive: Food fraud and counterfeit cotton: the detectives untangling the global supply chain
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, …
10 months ago
From acid house to ancient rites: Jeremy Deller’s enormous, collaborative, unsellable art
The artist Jeremy Deller can’t really draw or paint. Instead of making things, he makes things happen. And later this year, he is planning to unleash…
10 months ago
What happens when the US declares war on your parents? The Black Panther Cubs know
The Black Panthers shook America awake before the party was eviscerated by the US government. Their children paid a steep price, but also emerged wit…
10 months, 1 week ago
From the archive: The last phone boxes: broken glass, cider cans and – amazingly – a dial tone
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, …
10 months, 1 week ago
Many life-saving drugs fail for lack of funding. But there’s a solution: desperate rich people
Each year, hundreds of potentially world-changing treatments are discarded because scientists run out of cash. But where big pharma or altruists fear…
10 months, 1 week ago
In search of the South Pacific fugitive who crowned himself king
Noah Musingku made a fortune with a Ponzi scheme and then retreated to a remote armed compound in the jungle, where he still commands the loyalty of …
10 months, 1 week ago
From the archive: ‘I pleaded for help. No one wrote back’: the pain of watching my country fall to the Taliban
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, …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
The real Scandi noir: how a filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denmark’s self-image
The Black Swan follows a repentant master criminal as she sets up corrupt clients in front of hidden cameras. But is she really reformed – and is the…
10 months, 2 weeks ago