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The Audio Long Read

The Audio Long Read

By: The Guardian
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 Three times a week, The Audio Long Read podcast brings you the Guardian’s exceptional longform journalism in audio form. Covering topics from politics and culture to philosophy and sport, as well as investigations and current affairs.© 2025 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. Social Sciences
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  • 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 mins
  • 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 mins
  • 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 mins
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