Podcast Episodes
Back to Search‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang
In the 1970s, the radical leftwing German terrorist organisation may have spread fear through public acts of violence – but its inner workings were c…
6 months ago
From the archive: Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famous face
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, …
6 months ago
The origins of today’s conflict between American Jews over Israel
In the early years, American Jewish support for Israel was a fraught issue. The turning point was the six-day war of 1967, which solidified a strengt…
6 months, 1 week ago
‘I have to do it’: why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China
In 2020, after spending half his life in the US, Song-Chun Zhu took a one-way ticket to China. Now he might hold the key to who wins the global AI ra…
6 months, 1 week ago
From the archive: ‘Infertility stung me’: Black motherhood and me
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, …
6 months, 1 week ago
‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning
Over a few brutal days in March, as sectarian violence and revenge killings tore through parts of Syria, two friends from different communities tried…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest
The late Kenyan novelist and activist believed erasing language was the most lasting weapon of oppression. Here, Aminatta Forna recalls the man and i…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
From the archive: The Blackstone rebellion: how one country took on the world’s biggest commercial landlord
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, …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster
Some days it can feel as if climate catastrophe is inevitable. But history is full of cases – such as the banning of whaling and CFCs – that show hum…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
From bank robber to scholar: the Knoxville dropout fighting to change how we see addiction
Kirsten Smith was 19 when she first tried heroin; within a few years she was in prison. She says she willingly made bad choices and wants society to …
6 months, 3 weeks ago