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 10 hours 26 minutes
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Merry Christmas! We hope you’re having a good one. We are taking a short break but will be back on 4th January 2021
From the archives: Fifa: the video game that changed football
This week: Fifa belongs to a select group of titles familiar to people who have no interest in gaming – or even real football. What’s the secret of its success?
The mystery of the Gatwick drone
A drone sighting caused the airport to close for two days in 2018, but despite a lengthy police investigation, no culprit was ever found. So what exactly did people see in the Sussex sky?
'A peculiarly English epic': the weird genius of The Archers
The audio long read: Strangely eventless, yet swelling with high drama, The Archers is the longest-running series in the world. But has this rural soap been teaching Middle England about itself, or inventing it from scratch? By Charlotte Higgins
From the archive: Why time management is ruining our lives
From the audio long reads archive: All of our efforts to be more productive backfire – and only make us feel even busier and more stressed
'Is anybody in there?' Life on the inside as a locked-in patient
Jake Haendel spent months trapped in his body, silent and unmoving but fully conscious. Most people never emerge from ‘locked-in syndrome’, but as a doctor told him, everything about his case is bizarre by Josh Wilbur
From the archives: How statistics lost their power – and why we should fear what comes next
This week: The ability of statistics to accurately represent the world is declining. In its wake, a new age of big data controlled by private companies is taking over – and putting democracy in peril
The ‘false positives’ scandal that felled Colombia’s military hero
When the Colombian army defeated the Farc guerrillas, ending decades of conflict, General Mario Montoya was hailed a national hero. But then it was revealed that thousands of ‘insurgents’ executed by the army were in fact innocent men
Life during wartime: how west Belfast became the frontline of the Troubles
Acts of state violence, and repeated official denials, drove some Northern Irish Catholics to armed resistance. But not everyone in west Belfast supported the IRA’s methods
From the archive: The inside story of Facebook’s biggest setback
This week: The social network had a grand plan to connect millions of Indians to the internet. Here’s how it all went wrong