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‘I have to do it’: why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China	The Audio Long Read	54:50
From the archive: ‘Infertility stung me’: Black motherhood and me	The Audio Long Read	33:25
‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning	The Audio Long Read	42:49
Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest	The Audio Long Read	30:27
From the archive: The Blackstone rebellion: how one country took on the world’s biggest commercial landlord	The Audio Long Read	44:48
‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster	The Audio Long Read	29:36
From bank robber to scholar: the Knoxville dropout fighting to change how we see addiction	The Audio Long Read	31:55
From the archive: Divine comedy: the standup double act who turned to the priesthood	The Audio Long Read	45:08
‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?	The Audio Long Read	30:38
Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films?	The Audio Long Read	40:58
From the archive: Forgetting the apocalypse: why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous	The Audio Long Read	44:32
‘The forest had gone’: the storm that moved a mountain	The Audio Long Read	46:22
Life in a ‘sinking nation’: Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land	The Audio Long Read	42:36
From the archive: Sewage sleuths: the men who revealed the slow, dirty death of Welsh and English rivers	The Audio Long Read	42:24
Very British bribery: the whistleblower who exposed the UK’s dodgy arms deals with Saudi Arabia	The Audio Long Read	51:36
‘People pay to be told lies’: the rise and fall of the world’s first ayahuasca multinational	The Audio Long Read	49:41
From the archive: ‘We were all wrong’: how Germany got hooked on Russian energy	The Audio Long Read	32:40
Dancing with Putin: how Austria’s former foreign minister found a new home in Russia	The Audio Long Read	34:56
Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’	The Audio Long Read	30:44
From the archive: ‘We need to break the junk food cycle’: how to fix Britain’s failing food system	The Audio Long Read	33:47
The rise and fall of the British cult that hid in plain sight	The Audio Long Read	51:55
Best of 2025 … so far: ‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star	The Audio Long Read	37:14
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The go-between: how Qatar became the global capital of diplomacy	The Audio Long Read	43:05
Best of 2025 … so far: an English gentleman, a crooked lawyer: the secrets of Stephen David Jones	The Audio Long Read	56:55
Best of 2025 … so far: Kahane’s ghost: how a long-dead extremist rabbi continues to haunt Israel’s politics	The Audio Long Read	48:46
Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights?	The Audio Long Read	46:39
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How Pakistan fell in love with sushi	The Audio Long Read	33:52
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The Shining: my trip to the G7 horror show with Emmanuel Macron	The Audio Long Read	41:03
Are we witnessing the death of international law?	The Audio Long Read	34:40
From the archive: Bicycle graveyards: why do so many bikes end up underwater?	The Audio Long Read	29:57
Poison in the water: the town with the world’s worst case of forever chemicals contamination	The Audio Long Read	38:15
‘A relentless, destructive energy’: inside the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon	The Audio Long Read	62:41
From the archive: how two BBC journalists risked their jobs to reveal the truth about Jimmy Savile	The Audio Long Read	46:13
The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins	The Audio Long Read	58:27
Horse racing and erotica: how I survived the fickle world of freelance writing	The Audio Long Read	31:03

‘I have to do it’: why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China

The Audio Long Read

54:50

From the archive: ‘Infertility stung me’: Black motherhood and me

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33:25

‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning

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42:49

Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest

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30:27