Episodios

  • From the archive: Bicycle graveyards: why do so many bikes end up underwater?

    From the archive: Bicycle graveyards: why do so many bikes end up underwater?
    Jul 30 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: every year, thousands of bikes are tossed into rivers, ponds, lakes and canals. What’s behind this mass drowning? By Jody Rosen. Read by Masud Milas. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    30 m
  • Poison in the water: the town with the world’s worst case of forever chemicals contamination

    Poison in the water: the town with the world’s worst case of forever chemicals contamination
    Jul 28 2025
    When a small Swedish town discovered their drinking water contained extremely high levels of Pfas, they had no idea what it would mean for their health and their children’s future. By Marta Zaraska. Read by Myanna Buring. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    38 m
  • ‘A relentless, destructive energy’: inside the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon

    ‘A relentless, destructive energy’: inside the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon
    Jul 25 2025
    How did the daughter of an aristocrat end up at the Old Bailey with her partner, charged with killing their two-week-old baby? By Sophie Elmhirst. Read by Serena Manteghi. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    1 h y 3 m
  • From the archive: how two BBC journalists risked their jobs to reveal the truth about Jimmy Savile

    From the archive: how two BBC journalists risked their jobs to reveal the truth about Jimmy Savile
    Jul 23 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: listening to the women who alleged abuse, and fighting to get their stories heard, helped change the treatment of victims by the media and the justice system By Poppy Sebag-Montefiore. Read by Caroline Wildi. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    46 m
  • The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins

    The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins
    Jul 21 2025
    When fossilised remains were discovered in the Djurab desert in 2001, they were hailed as radically rewriting the history of our species. But not everyone was convinced – and the bitter argument that followed has consumed the lives of scholars ever since By Scott Sayare. Read by Bert Seymour. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    58 m
  • Horse racing and erotica: how I survived the fickle world of freelance writing

    Horse racing and erotica: how I survived the fickle world of freelance writing
    Jul 18 2025
    Gabrielle Drolet had always dreamed of being a writer. But when disability closed down most of her opportunities, a strange career began By Gabrielle Drolet. Read by Kate Handford. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    31 m
  • From the archive: The sludge king: how one man turned an industrial wasteland into his own El Dorado

    From the archive: The sludge king: how one man turned an industrial wasteland into his own El Dorado
    Jul 16 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: when a Romanian businessman returned to his hometown and found a city blighted by mining waste, he hatched a plan to restore it to its former glory. He became a local hero, but now prosecutors accuse of him a running a multimillion dollar fraud By Alexander Clapp. Read by Simon Darwen. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    51 m
  • Sold to the Trump family: one of the last undeveloped islands in the Mediterranean

    Sold to the Trump family: one of the last undeveloped islands in the Mediterranean
    Jul 14 2025
    Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner have spent more than $1bn on an Albanian island that will be a luxury resort – once the unexploded ordnance has been removed By Marzio Mian. Read by Mo Ayoub For more on US politics and the Trump family check out Politics Weekly America. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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    17 m