The Audio Long Read podcast is a selection of the Guardian’s long reads, giving you the opportunity to get on with your day while listening to some of the finest journalism the Guardian has to offer, including in-depth writing from around the world on immigration, crime, business, the arts and much more
https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/the-audio-long-read
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 27 days 7 hours 55 minutes
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Best long reads of 2021: Brazilian butt lift: behind the world’s most dangerous cosmetic surgery
The BBL is the fastest growing cosmetic surgery in the world, despite the mounting number of deaths resulting from the procedure. What is driving its astonishing rise?
From the archive: Latin America’s Schindler: a forgotten hero of the 20th century
This week, from 2016: Under General Pinochet’s rule of terror in Chile, one man saved thousands of people from the dictator’s brutal secret police. How did Roberto Kozak do it – and escape death?
Best long reads of 2021: The student and the algorithm: how the exam results fiasco threatened one pupil’s future
Josiah Elleston-Burrell had done everything to make his dream of studying architecture a reality. But, suddenly, in the summer of 2020, he found his fate was no longer in his hand
Best long reads of 2021: The rich vs the very, very rich: the Wentworth golf club rebellion
When a Chinese billionaire bought one of Britain’s most prestigious golf clubs in 2015, dentists and estate agents were confronted with the unsentimental force of globalised capital
From the archive: Field of dreams: heartbreak and heroics at the World Ploughing Championships – podcast
This week, from 2018: Some compare it to snooker, others to figure skating. But for those who have given their lives to competitive ploughing, it’s more than a sport, it’s a way of life
Ten ways to confront the climate crisis without losing hope – podcast
Reconstruction after Covid: a new series of long reads.It’s easy to despair at the climate crisis, or to decide it’s already too late – but it’s not. Here’s how to keep the fight alive by Rebecca Solnit
A tale of two pandemics: the true cost of Covid in the global south
While the rich nations focus on booster jabs and returning to the office, much of the world is facing devastating second-order coronavirus effects. Now is the time to build a fairer, more responsible international system for the future
From the archive: Unlearning the myth of American innocence – podcast
This week, from 2017: When she was 30, Suzy Hansen left the US for Istanbul – and began to realise that Americans will never understand their own country until they see it as the rest of the world does
Votes for children! Why we should lower the voting age to six
Welcome to a new series of long reads: Reconstruction after CovidThe generational divide is deforming democracy. But there is a solution
The high cost of living in a disabling world
For all the advances that have been made in recent decades, disabled people cannot yet participate in society ‘on an equal basis’ with others – and the pandemic has led to many protections being cruelly eroded