Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFrom the archive: Is society coming apart?
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, 6 months ago
The Coventry experiment: why were Indian women in Britain given radioactive food without their consent?
When details about a scientific study in the 1960s became public, there was shock, outrage and anxiety. But exactly what happened? By Samira Shackle.…
1 year, 6 months ago
My life as a prison officer: ‘It wasn’t just the smell that hit you. It was the noise’
I saw first hand how prisons are having to use segregation units for acutely mentally ill inmates who should not be in prison at all Written and read…
1 year, 6 months ago
From the archive: The revolt against liberalism: what’s driving Poland and Hungary’s nativist turn?
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, 6 months ago
‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis?
Beset by colonial controversy, difficult finances and the discovery of a thief on the inside, Britain’s No 1 museum is in deep trouble. Can it restor…
1 year, 6 months ago
Turkey said it would become a ‘zero waste’ nation. Instead, it became a dumping ground for Europe’s rubbish
When China stopped receiving the world’s waste, Turkey became Europe’s recycling hotspot. The problem is, most plastics can’t be recycled. And what r…
1 year, 7 months ago
From the archive: The end of Atlanticism: has Trump killed the ideology that won the cold war?
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, 7 months ago
Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand?
We are far more likely to use our hands to type or swipe than pick up a pen. But in the process we are in danger of losing cognitive skills, sensory …
1 year, 7 months ago
‘Here lives the monster’s brain’: the man who exposed Switzerland’s dirty secrets
Inspired by Che Guevara, Jean Ziegler has spent the past 60 years exposing how Switzerland enabled global wrongdoing. His enemies accuse him of treas…
1 year, 7 months ago
From the archive: ‘In my 30 years as a GP, the profession has been horribly eroded’
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, 7 months ago