Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFrom 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…
1 year, 2 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…
1 year, 2 months 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, …
1 year, 2 months 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…
1 year, 2 months 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 …
1 year, 2 months 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, …
1 year, 2 months 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…
1 year, 2 months ago
Kahane’s ghost: how a long-dead extremist rabbi continues to haunt Israel’s politics
A violent fanatic and pioneer in bigotry, Meir Kahane died a political outcast 35 years ago. Today, his ideas influence the very highest levels of go…
1 year, 2 months ago
From the archive: The great betrayal: how the Hillsborough families were failed by the justice 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, …
1 year, 3 months ago
My mother, the racist
She spent her life in northern France doing exhausting, back-breaking work – and yet she turned her anger against people who had done no wrongs to he…
1 year, 3 months ago