The Audio Long Read

Listen, download, subscribe

Apple Podcasts

Google Podcasts

Spotify

From the archive: ‘A zombie party’: the deepening crisis of conservatism

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 2019: The traditional right is clinging on to power – but its ideas are dead in the water. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

• 

  Schedule Changes to the Audio Long Read

• 

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

• 

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

• 

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

• 

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

• 

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

• 

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

• 

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

• 

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

• 

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

• 

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

• 

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

• 

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

• 

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

• 

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

• 

  Best of 2022: The amazing true(ish) story of the ‘Honduran Maradona’