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The mystery of the nameless girl found dead in a Spanish border town	The Audio Long Read	38:52
From the archive: Food fraud and counterfeit cotton: the detectives untangling the global supply chain	The Audio Long Read	45:32
From acid house to ancient rites: Jeremy Deller’s enormous, collaborative, unsellable art	The Audio Long Read	38:24
What happens when the US declares war on your parents? The Black Panther Cubs know	The Audio Long Read	51:32
From the archive: The last phone boxes: broken glass, cider cans and – amazingly – a dial tone	The Audio Long Read	32:20
Many life-saving drugs fail for lack of funding. But there’s a solution: desperate rich people	The Audio Long Read	29:52
In search of the South Pacific fugitive who crowned himself king	The Audio Long Read	47:44
From the archive: ‘I pleaded for help. No one wrote back’: the pain of watching my country fall to the Taliban	The Audio Long Read	30:06
The real Scandi noir: how a filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denmark’s self-image	The Audio Long Read	47:41
Kahane’s ghost: how a long-dead extremist rabbi continues to haunt Israel’s politics	The Audio Long Read	46:37
From the archive: The great betrayal: how the Hillsborough families were failed by the justice system	The Audio Long Read	49:04
My mother, the racist	The Audio Long Read	32:03
The reluctant collaborator: surviving Syria’s brutal civil war – and its aftermath	The Audio Long Read	50:15
From the archive: Votes for children! Why we should lower the voting age to six	The Audio Long Read	33:49
The Rainham volcano: a waste dump is constantly on fire in east London. Why will no one stop it?	The Audio Long Read	38:55
It came from outer space: the meteorite that landed in a Cotswolds cul-de-sac	The Audio Long Read	29:30
From the archive: ‘The treeline is out of control’: how the climate crisis is turning the Arctic green	The Audio Long Read	36:32
Holidays in hell: summer camp with Russia’s forgotten children	The Audio Long Read	24:48
The savage suburbia of Helen Garner: ‘I wanted to dong Martin Amis with a bat’	The Audio Long Read	38:39
From the archive: Is society coming apart?	The Audio Long Read	42:36
The Coventry experiment: why were Indian women in Britain given radioactive food without their consent?	The Audio Long Read	38:13
My life as a prison officer: ‘It wasn’t just the smell that hit you. It was the noise’	The Audio Long Read	27:16
From the archive: The revolt against liberalism: what’s driving Poland and Hungary’s nativist turn?	The Audio Long Read	37:27
‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis?	The Audio Long Read	38:48
Turkey said it would become a ‘zero waste’ nation. Instead, it became a dumping ground for Europe’s rubbish	The Audio Long Read	31:00
From the archive: The end of Atlanticism: has Trump killed the ideology that won the cold war?	The Audio Long Read	38:52
Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand?	The Audio Long Read	30:22
‘Here lives the monster’s brain’: the man who exposed Switzerland’s dirty secrets	The Audio Long Read	31:34
From the archive: ‘In my 30 years as a GP, the profession has been horribly eroded’	The Audio Long Read	25:07
Massacre in the jungle: how an Indigenous man was made the public face of an atrocity	The Audio Long Read	32:31
Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’	The Audio Long Read	34:03
From the archive: One drug dealer, two corrupt cops and a risky FBI sting	The Audio Long Read	41:22
Innit innit boys and Super Eagles: how Nigerian Londoners found their identity through football	The Audio Long Read	26:46
The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay	The Audio Long Read	34:30
From the archive: Was it inevitable? A short history of Russia’s war on Ukraine	The Audio Long Read	46:12
The loudest megaphone: how Trump mastered our new attention age	The Audio Long Read	33:18
How a young Dutch woman’s life began when she was allowed to die	The Audio Long Read	38:32
From the archive: The knackerman: the toughest job in British farming	The Audio Long Read	33:22
‘Bring me my tariffs’: how Trump’s China plan was 40 years in the making	The Audio Long Read	31:35
Tokyo drift: what happens when a city stops being the future?	The Audio Long Read	32:31

The mystery of the nameless girl found dead in a Spanish border town

The Audio Long Read

38:52

From the archive: Food fraud and counterfeit cotton: the detectives untangling the global supply chain

The Audio Long Read

45:32

From acid house to ancient rites: Jeremy Deller’s enormous, collaborative, unsellable art

The Audio Long Read

38:24

What happens when the US declares war on your parents? The Black Panther Cubs know

The Audio Long Read

51:32