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From the archive: Going underground: inside the world of the mole-catchers

We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2017: A bitter battle is raging within the mole-catching community over the kindest way to carry out their deadly work. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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  From the archive: Where oil rigs go to die

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  Schedule Changes to the Audio Long Read

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  ‘If you win the popular imagination, you change the game’: why we need new…

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  ‘We can’t even get basic care done’: what it’s like doing 12-hour shifts o…

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  From the archive – The selling of the Krays: how two mediocre criminals cr…

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  ‘It was a set-up, we were fooled’: the coalmine that ate an Indian village

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  The price of ‘sugar free’: are sweeteners as harmless as we thought?

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  From the archive: El Chapo: what the rise and fall of the kingpin reveals …

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  Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site

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  Becoming a chatbot: my life as a real estate AI’s human backup

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  From the archive: Who killed the prime minister? The unsolved murder that …

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  ‘The Godfather, Saudi-style’: inside the palace coup that brought MBS to p…

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  ‘They want toys to get their children into Harvard’: have we been getting …

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  From the archive: How the ‘rugby rape trial’ divided Ireland

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  Iran’s moment of truth: what will it take for the people to topple the reg…

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  Best of 2022: ‘Is this justice?’: why Sudan is facing a multibillion-dolla…