Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFrom the archive: The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea
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, 5 months ago
Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers
When Putin invaded, a historian in Kyiv saw that Ukraine’s cultural heritage was in danger. So he set out to save as much of it as he could. By Charl…
1 year, 5 months ago
As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel
This summer, one of my lectures was protested by far-right students. Their rhetoric brought to mind some of the darkest moments of 20th-century histo…
1 year, 5 months ago
From the archive: Death on demand: has euthanasia gone too far?
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, 5 months ago
‘A diagnosis can sweep away guilt’: the delicate art of treating ADHD
For children with ADHD, getting the help they need depends on being correctly diagnosed. As a doctor, I have seen how tricky and frustrating a proces…
1 year, 6 months ago
From the archive – ‘A merry-go-round of buck-passing’: inside the four-year Grenfell inquiry
We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some notable pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, …
1 year, 6 months ago
From the KKK to the state house: how neo-Nazi David Duke won office
In the 1970s, David Duke was grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. In the 80s, he was elected to Louisiana’s house of representatives – and the kinds of …
1 year, 6 months ago
‘Nobody knows what I know’: how a loyal RSS member abandoned Hindu nationalism
As a young man, Partha Banerjee was on course to become a senior member of the RSS, the organisation that has pushed Indian politics towards extreme …
1 year, 6 months ago
Best of 2024 … so far: Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history
Every Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2024, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editori…
1 year, 6 months ago
‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s
By the time my wife got a diagnosis, her long and harrowing deterioration had already begun. By the end, I was in awe of her. By Michael Aylwin. Help…
1 year, 6 months ago