Episodios

  • Best of 2024 … so far: Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history

    Best of 2024 … so far: Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history
    Aug 30 2024
    Every Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2024, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it. This week, from May: Advances in fields such as spectrometry and gene sequencing are unleashing torrents of new data about the ancient world – and could offer answers to questions we never even knew to ask. By Jacob Mikanowski. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    39 m
  • ‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s

    ‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s
    Aug 26 2024
    By the time my wife got a diagnosis, her long and harrowing deterioration had already begun. By the end, I was in awe of her. By Michael Aylwin. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    43 m
  • Best of 2024 … so far: ‘Scars on every street’: the refugee camp where generations of Palestinians have lost their futures

    Best of 2024 … so far: ‘Scars on every street’: the refugee camp where generations of Palestinians have lost their futures
    Aug 23 2024
    Every Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2024, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it. This week, from February: Ever since the displacement of 700,000 Palestinians in 1948, many have been living in dejection and squalor in camps like Shatila in Beirut. Is this the grim future the people of Gaza could now be facing? By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    30 m
  • Food, water, wifi: is this the future of humanitarian aid?

    Food, water, wifi: is this the future of humanitarian aid?
    Aug 19 2024
    Working in food aid delivery, I have seen the benefits of embracing new technologies. But some problems need to be solved between humans. By Jean-Martin Bauer. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    27 m
  • Best of 2024…so far: ‘They were dying, and they’d not had their money’: Britain’s multibillion-pound equal pay scandal

    Best of 2024…so far: ‘They were dying, and they’d not had their money’: Britain’s multibillion-pound equal pay scandal
    Aug 16 2024
    Every Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2024, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it. This week, from February: In 2005, Glasgow council offered to compensate women for historic pay inequality. But it sold them short again – and soon workers all over the UK started fighting for what they were owed. By Samira Shackle. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    43 m
  • My family and other Nazis

    My family and other Nazis
    Aug 12 2024
    My father did terrible things during the second world war, and my other relatives were equally unrepentant. But it wasn’t until I was in my late 50s that I started to confront this dark past. By Martin Pollack. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    35 m
  • Best of 2024 … so far: Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: the forgotten genius who changed British food

    Best of 2024 … so far: Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: the forgotten genius who changed British food
    Aug 9 2024
    Every Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2024, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it. This week, from January: Nicholas Saunders was a counterculture pioneer with an endless stream of quixotic schemes and a yearning to spread knowledge – but his true legacy is a total remaking of the way Britain eats. By Jonathan Nunn. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    50 m
  • Revolution in the air: how laughing gas changed the world

    Revolution in the air: how laughing gas changed the world
    Aug 5 2024
    Since its discovery in the 18th century, nitrous oxide has gone from vaudeville gimmick to pioneering anaesthetic to modern party drug. By Mark Miodownik. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    28 m