Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOn board the Creed cruise: the unfathomable return of the ‘worst band of the 90s’
I took a cruise with thousands of fellow lunatics to find out how this much-mocked rock band became so beloved. By Luke Winkie. Help support our inde…
1 year, 7 months ago
A Chinese-born writer’s quest to understand the Vikings, Normans and life on the English coast
Perhaps a foreigner knows more about their adopted land than the locals, because a foreigner feels more acutely the particularities of a new environm…
1 year, 7 months ago
From 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 months ago