Episodios

  • Best of 2025: Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’

    Best of 2025: Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’
    Dec 17 2025
    Each week for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2025, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it. From July: the Victorians called it ‘pernicious vomiting of pregnancy’, but modern medicine has offered no end to the torture of hyperemesis gravidarum – until now By Abi Stephenson. Read by Nicolette Chin. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    33 m
  • The snail farm don: is this the most brazen tax avoidance scheme of all time?

    The snail farm don: is this the most brazen tax avoidance scheme of all time?
    Dec 15 2025
    Terry Ball – renowned shoe salesman, friend to former mafiosi – has vowed to spend his remaining years finding ways to cheat authorities he feels have cheated him. His greatest ruse? A tax-dodging snail empire By Jim Waterson. Read by Nicholas Camm. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    33 m
  • The Birth Keepers: I choose this – episode one

    The Birth Keepers: I choose this – episode one
    Dec 13 2025
    The Free Birth Society was selling pregnant women a simple message. They could exit the medical system and take back their power. By free birthing. But Nicole Garrison believes FBS ideology nearly cost her her life. This is episode one of a year-long investigation by Guardian journalists Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne Listen to the full series from The Guardian Investigates podcast. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    37 m
  • ‘DeepSeek is humane. Doctors are more like machines’: my mother’s worrying reliance on AI for health advice

    ‘DeepSeek is humane. Doctors are more like machines’: my mother’s worrying reliance on AI for health advice
    Dec 12 2025
    Tired of a two-day commute to see her overworked doctor, my mother turned to tech for help with her kidney disease. She bonded with the bot so much I was scared she would refuse to see a real medic By Viola Zhou. Read by Vivian Full This essay was originally published on Rest of world. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    33 m
  • From the archive: Is the IMF fit for purpose?

    From the archive: Is the IMF fit for purpose?
    Dec 10 2025
    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: As the world faces the worst debt crisis in decades, the need for a global lender of last resort is clearer than ever. But many nations view the IMF as overbearing, or even neocolonial – and are now looking elsewhere for help By Jamie Martin. Read by Kelly Burke. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    40 m
  • ‘The police weren’t interested’: what’s driving the rise in private prosecutions?

    ‘The police weren’t interested’: what’s driving the rise in private prosecutions?
    Dec 8 2025
    As the police and courts continue to struggle with the legacy of austerity, many people are seeking alternative routes to justice – but it could be making matters worse By Hettie O’Brien. Read by Rebecca Trehearn. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    33 m
  • When I met Craig he was 13 and homeless. I still thought his life might turn around. I was tragically wrong

    When I met Craig he was 13 and homeless. I still thought his life might turn around. I was tragically wrong
    Dec 5 2025
    I knew he was running away from something. It wasn’t until many years later that I discovered the truth Written and read by Pamela Gordon. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    31 m
  • Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia

    Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia
    Dec 4 2025
    Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime By Jacob Silverman.. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    32 m