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  • Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet

    Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet
    2025/11/07
    A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life By Samanth Subramanian. Read by Raj Ghatak. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    33 分
  • From the archive: A drowning world: Kenya’s quiet slide underwater

    From the archive: A drowning world: Kenya’s quiet slide underwater
    2025/11/05
    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, from 2022: Kenya’s great lakes are flooding, in a devastating and long-ignored environmental disaster that is displacing hundreds of thousands of people By Carey Baraka. Read by Reice Weathers. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    28 分
  • ‘Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth’: a Chinese journalist on the US under Trump

    ‘Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth’: a Chinese journalist on the US under Trump
    2025/11/03
    Once a stalwart of Hong Kong’s journalism scene, Wang Jian has found a new audience on YouTube, dissecting global politics and US-China relations since the pandemic. To his fans, he’s part newscaster, part professor, part friend By Lauren Hilgers. Read by G Cheng. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    31 分
  • The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job

    The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job
    2025/10/31
    From murder scenes to whale blubber, Ben Giles has seen it – and cleaned it – all. In their stickiest hours, people rely on him to restore order By Tom Lamont. Read by Elis James. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    31 分
  • From the archive: The queen of crime-solving

    From the archive: The queen of crime-solving
    2025/10/29
    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, from 2022: forensic scientist Angela Gallop has helped to crack many of the UK’s most notorious murder cases. But today she fears the whole field – and justice itself – is at risk By Imogen West-Knights. Read by Lucy Scott. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    42 分
  • A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0

    A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0
    2025/10/27
    If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might there be a way out? By William Davies. Read by Dan Starkey. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    26 分
  • ‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang

    ‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang
    2025/10/24
    In the 1970s, the radical leftwing German terrorist organisation may have spread fear through public acts of violence – but its inner workings were characterised by vanity and incompetence By Jason Burke. Read by Noof Ousellam. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    37 分
  • From the archive: Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famous face

    From the archive: Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famous face
    2025/10/22
    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, from 2022: Thanks to a savvy California lawyer, Albert Einstein has earned far more posthumously than he ever did in his lifetime. But is that what the great scientist would have wanted? By Simon Parkin. Read by Ruth Lass. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    49 分