Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLife in a ‘sinking nation’: Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land
With sea levels rising, much of the nation’s population is confronting the prospect that their home may soon cease to exist. Where are they going to …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
From the archive: Sewage sleuths: the men who revealed the slow, dirty death of Welsh and English rivers
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, …
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Very British bribery: the whistleblower who exposed the UK’s dodgy arms deals with Saudi Arabia
When Ian Foxley found evidence of corruption while working at a British company in Riyadh, he alerted the MoD. He didn’t know he’d stumbled upon one …
10 months ago
‘People pay to be told lies’: the rise and fall of the world’s first ayahuasca multinational
Alberto Varela claimed he wanted to use sacred plant medicine to free people’s minds. But as the organisation grew, his followers discovered a darker…
10 months ago
From the archive: ‘We were all wrong’: how Germany got hooked on Russian energy
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
Dancing with Putin: how Austria’s former foreign minister found a new home in Russia
Karin Kneissl made headlines around the world when she invited the Russian president to her wedding in 2018. Five years later, she moved to St Peters…
10 months, 1 week ago
Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’
The Victorians called it ‘pernicious vomiting of pregnancy’, but modern medicine has offered no end to the torture of hyperemesis gravidarum – until …
10 months, 1 week ago
From the archive: ‘We need to break the junk food cycle’: how to fix Britain’s failing food system
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
The rise and fall of the British cult that hid in plain sight
Philippa Barnes was a child when her family joined the Jesus Fellowship. As an adult, she helped expose the shocking scale of abuse it had perpetrate…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Best of 2025 … so far: ‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star
Every Wednesday and Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2025, in case you missed them, with an introduction fr…
10 months, 2 weeks ago