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Fake film deals and emails from top agents: who is behind the explosion in literary scams?	The Audio Long Read	33:18
From the archive: Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI	The Audio Long Read	56:26
Everyone hates Oxford Street. Will pedestrianisation save it?	The Audio Long Read	35:01
Why Woke 2.0 is taking on Trump and establishment politics \| Nesrine Malik \| Radical Thinking	The Audio Long Read	63:28
‘The last bastion is gone’: the US right idolised Orbán’s Hungary. Can they recover now he has fallen?	The Audio Long Read	46:24
From the archive: The trials of Robert Habeck: is the world’s most powerful green politician doomed to fail?	The Audio Long Read	49:29
A perfect storm: how the super El Niño is devastating the fishing industry	The Audio Long Read	31:30
‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bomb	The Audio Long Read	44:20
From the archive: The disabled villain: why sensitivity reading can’t kill off this ugly trope	The Audio Long Read	33:15
Fixer, financier, spymaster: how the UAE’s Sheikh Tahnoon is setting his sights on AI dominance	The Audio Long Read	50:52
“Culture is stagnant, so politics is stuck” – playwright James Graham \| Radical Thinking	The Audio Long Read	47:28
Why am I obsessed with China’s ancient golden age? I took my daughter on a trip to find out	The Audio Long Read	36:24
The Netanyahu doctrine: how Israel’s longest-serving leader reshaped the country in his image	The Audio Long Read	42:47
A tale of two trap houses: being cuckooed ruined my friend’s life – but did it then help save him?	The Audio Long Read	41:16
‘Austerity is inevitably painful’. How Michael Gove justifies his politics \| Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty	The Audio Long Read	57:36
‘A completely unique opportunity’: the secretive process that will decide the BBC’s future	The Audio Long Read	40:03
From the archive: ‘Voters are unhappier with the NHS than they’ve been for 30 years. As a GP, I feel the same’	The Audio Long Read	35:56
‘A crisis of authenticity’: the truth about food influencers	The Audio Long Read	36:07
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor \| Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty	The Audio Long Read	50:16
Labour’s last chance? The people shaping Andy Burnham’s grand plans for Britain	The Audio Long Read	39:16
From the archive – No place like home: my bitter return to Palestine	The Audio Long Read	35:25
‘This is dangerous’: slime moulds and the bitter debate over the nature of intelligence	The Audio Long Read	43:46
Introducing Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty	The Audio Long Read	52:59
The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear	The Audio Long Read	35:55
From the archive: How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking	The Audio Long Read	47:07
The flat-pack skyscraper: how wood can shape the cities of the future	The Audio Long Read	27:55
The other Post Office scandal: how organised crime launders money on the high street	The Audio Long Read	27:32
From the archive: ‘I know where the bodies are buried’: one woman’s mission to change how the police investigate rape	The Audio Long Read	54:59
A bungled bomb plot in Poland exposed a spy – but whose spy was he?	The Audio Long Read	51:37
‘If you build something vastly smarter than you, it better be on your side’: can we stop AI from deceiving us?	The Audio Long Read	28:41
From the archive: The rubbishscapes of Essex: why our buried trash is back to haunt us	The Audio Long Read	28:15
Democracy v the machine: the birth of the digital age and the warnings that were ignored	The Audio Long Read	46:26
The long shadow of Argentina’s dictatorship: she wasn’t who she thought she was. Neither was her father	The Audio Long Read	43:25
From the archive: Sudan’s outsider: how a paramilitary leader fell out with the army and plunged the country into war	The Audio Long Read	42:39
The great silence: why haven’t we found any aliens yet?	The Audio Long Read	38:31
Introducing Black Box: The Chatbots	The Audio Long Read	39:45
The body snatchers: how a young Nigerian man was lured to London in an organ-trafficking plot	The Audio Long Read	36:10
From the archive: ‘Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic’	The Audio Long Read	37:01
‘I can sense Sinatra enter my body and exit my lungs’: aboard the celebrity impersonators’ cruise	The Audio Long Read	35:25
Best of 2026…so far: ‘Any other child would have died’: the miraculous survival of Nada Itrab	The Audio Long Read	51:48

Fake film deals and emails from top agents: who is behind the explosion in literary scams?

The Audio Long Read

33:18

From the archive: Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI

The Audio Long Read

56:26

Everyone hates Oxford Street. Will pedestrianisation save it?

The Audio Long Read

35:01

Why Woke 2.0 is taking on Trump and establishment politics | Nesrine Malik | Radical Thinking

The Audio Long Read

63:28