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Best of 2026…so far: ‘Any other child would have died’: the miraculous survival of Nada Itrab	The Audio Long Read	51:48
Best of 2026…so far: Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong	The Audio Long Read	39:55
‘The war leaked into every lesson’: learning Ukrainian in a country under siege	The Audio Long Read	40:11
Best of 2026 … so far: Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother	The Audio Long Read	50:38
Best of 2026 … so far: Asian mothers, bad feelings: notes on an all-conquering stereotype	The Audio Long Read	34:43
Iraq’s impossible predicament: why the country is trapped between Iran and the US	The Audio Long Read	25:53
Best of 2026…so far: Endo dreams of sushi: a trip around Japan with one of the world’s greatest chefs	The Audio Long Read	46:21
Best of 2026…so far: 35,000 pints of stolen Guinness, 950 wheels of pilfered cheese: can the UK’s cargo theft crisis be stopped?	The Audio Long Read	42:09
The Dacre dynasty: how Britain’s rightwing press was radicalised	The Audio Long Read	46:25
Best of 2026…so far: ‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK	The Audio Long Read	33:46
Best of 2026…so far: My maddening battle with chronic fatigue syndrome: ‘On my worst days, it feels almost demonic’	The Audio Long Read	35:18
‘This process has turned into a form of torture’: inside the trial of Erdoğan’s challenger	The Audio Long Read	28:24
‘It makes your heart sing’: can a pioneering project show that rewilding really works?	The Audio Long Read	49:31
From the archive: ‘A dizzying maze’: how the UK immigration system is geared to reject	The Audio Long Read	34:20
‘It is comforting to be haunted’: how attitudes to abortion have changed through the ages	The Audio Long Read	37:50
What training my chaotic dog taught me about power, control – and human beings	The Audio Long Read	29:14
Pinker’s progress: the celebrity scientist at the centre of the culture wars	The Audio Long Read	52:14
Saint Levant: the pop star from Gaza caught between passionate fandom and bitter disapproval	The Audio Long Read	41:13
‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI	The Audio Long Read	52:34
From the archive: Battle of the botanic garden: the horticulture war roiling the Isle of Wight	The Audio Long Read	43:07
‘Navigating the unknown together’: me and my idiot AI boyfriend	The Audio Long Read	38:11
‘He liked that people were scared of him’: my year unpicking fantasy and reality with a veteran of Italy’s football ultras	The Audio Long Read	37:59
From the archive: Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online	The Audio Long Read	33:21
How did Mexico’s president become the world’s most popular leftwing leader?	The Audio Long Read	52:45
I launched Cuba’s first independent magazine. And that’s when my troubles began	The Audio Long Read	42:20
From the archive: Flour power: meet the bread heads baking a better loaf	The Audio Long Read	38:30
‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintings	The Audio Long Read	32:17
Ping-pong sponges, ‘black smokers’ and floating somethings: the secrets of the deep sea	The Audio Long Read	29:40
From the archive: No coach, no agent, no ego: the incredible story of the ‘Lionel Messi of cliff diving’	The Audio Long Read	45:10
‘Seriously the best boss ever’: inside the world of Jeffrey Epstein’s assistant	The Audio Long Read	48:58
‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuza	The Audio Long Read	40:55
From the archive: Terrorists, cultists – or champions of Iranian democracy? The wild wild story of the MEK	The Audio Long Read	48:26
As a Ukrainian journalist, I’ve covered the US for 20 years. I find it increasingly shocking	The Audio Long Read	34:11
‘Should we leave them to die?’ The battle over how to save orangutans from the curse of palm oil	The Audio Long Read	42:05
From the archive: Sold to the Trump family: one of the last undeveloped islands in the Mediterranean	The Audio Long Read	21:11
Prisoner number 804: the plot to erase Imran Khan	The Audio Long Read	48:19
‘I couldn’t breathe’: the sinister spread of France’s killer seaweed	The Audio Long Read	32:01
From the archive: Three abandoned children, two missing parents and a 40-year mystery	The Audio Long Read	47:37
After a hard-fought victory to legalise medical cannabis in the UK, why is it still so hard to access?	The Audio Long Read	29:46
Asian mothers, bad feelings: notes on an all-conquering stereotype	The Audio Long Read	33:18

Best of 2026…so far: ‘Any other child would have died’: the miraculous survival of Nada Itrab

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51:48

Best of 2026…so far: Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong

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39:55

‘The war leaked into every lesson’: learning Ukrainian in a country under siege

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40:11

Best of 2026 … so far: Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother

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50:38