Episodios

  • Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia

    Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia
    Nov 21 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
  • The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist

    The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist
    Nov 17 2025
    Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bigger forces at work? By Philip Oltermann. Read by Daniela Denby Ashe. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    40 m
  • From the archive: how we lost our sensory connection with food – and how to restore it

    From the archive: how we lost our sensory connection with food – and how to restore it
    Nov 19 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: to eat in the modern world is often to eat in a state of profound sensory disengagement. It shouldn’t have to be this way By Bee Wilson. Read by Lucy Scott. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    36 m
  • ‘The jobless should lead the attack’: a radical Jamaican journalist in 1920s London

    ‘The jobless should lead the attack’: a radical Jamaican journalist in 1920s London
    Nov 14 2025
    Economic insecurity, race riots, incendiary media … Claude McKay was one of the few Black journalists covering a turbulent period that sounds all too familiar to us today By Yvonne Singh. Read by Karl Queensborough. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    32 m
  • From the archive: ‘We are so divided now’: how China controls thought and speech beyond its borders

    From the archive: ‘We are so divided now’: how China controls thought and speech beyond its borders
    Nov 12 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 2021: the arrest of a Tibetan New York city cop on spying charges plays into the community’s long-held suspicions that the People’s Republic is watching them By Lauren Hilgers. Read by Emily Woo Zeller. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    41 m
  • Special Edition: Behind the scenes at the Long Read

    Special Edition: Behind the scenes at the Long Read
    Nov 11 2025
    To celebrate the launch of the new Guardian Long Read magazine this week, join the long read editor David Wolf in discussion with regular contributors Charlotte Higgins and Hettie O’Brien. The Guardian long read magazine is available to order at theguardian.com/longreadmag In this issue, you’ll find pieces on how MrBeast became the world’s biggest YouTube star, how Emmanuel Macron deals with Donald Trump, and shocking revelations at the British Museum. Plus: what’s behind our rampant steroid use?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    20 m
  • Counting down to zero: the final warning from a climate diplomat

    Counting down to zero: the final warning from a climate diplomat
    Nov 10 2025
    Before Peter Betts died in 2023, he wanted to pass on what he had learned over many years of negotiating at Cops – including how Paris 2015 was saved at the last bell By Peter Betts. Read by Andrew McGregor. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    27 m
  • 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
    Nov 7 2025
    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 m