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From the archive: The man in the iron lung

5/31/2023 • 40 min

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors This week, from 2020: When he was six, Paul Alexander contracted polio and was paralysed for life. Today he is 74, and one of the last people in the world still using an iron lung. But after surviving one deadly outbreak, he di… Play episode

On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer in the w…
The dark universe: can a scientist battling long Covid unlock the mysterie…
From the archive: Splendid isolation: how I stopped time by sitting in a f…
How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking
‘I feel like I’m selling my soul’: inside the crisis at Juventus
From the archive: How ultra-processed food took over your shopping basket
Sleeping beauties: the evolutionary innovations that wait millions of year…
Sudan’s outsider: how a paramilitary leader fell out with the army and plu…
From the archive: Cod wars to food banks: how a Lancashire fishing town is…
Are coincidences real?
‘The torture’s real. The time I did was real’: the Belfast man waterboarde…
From the archive: Are your tinned tomatoes picked by slave labour?
Will flying ever be green?
How Deborah Levy can change your life
From the archive: My four miscarriages: why is losing a pregnancy so shrou…
Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter o…
The impossible job: inside the world of Premier League referees
From the archive: The race to create a perfect lie detector, and the dange…
Three abandoned children, two missing parents and a 40-year mystery
The Ciskei experiment: a libertarian fantasy in apartheid South Africa
From the archive – The sound of icebergs melting: my journey into the Anta…
‘They robbed me of my children’: Yemen’s war victims tell their stories
The stupidity of AI
From the archive – The girl in the box: the mysterious crime that shocked …
The disabled villain: why sensitivity reading can’t kill off this ugly tro…
Foreign mothers, foreign tongues: ‘In another universe, she could have bee…
From the archive: Why do people hate vegans?
The trials of an Indian witness: how a Muslim man was caught in a legal ni…
‘I know where the bodies are buried’: one woman’s mission to change how th…
From the archive: Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight…
Baghdad memories: what the first few months of the US occupation felt like…
Dinner with Proust: how Alzheimer’s caregivers are pulled into their patie…
From the archive: How the MoD’s plan to privatise military housing ended i…
‘One billionaire at a time’: inside the Swiss clinics where the super-rich…
From the archive: The real David Attenborough
No coach, no agent, no ego: the incredible story of the ‘Lionel Messi of c…
From the archive: Fifty shades of white: the long fight against racism in …
Portrait of a killer: art class in one of Mexico’s most notorious prisons
From the archive: Welcome to the land that no country wants
Can a mass shooter demand a good death? The strange case that tested the l…
From the archive: Snow machines and fleece blankets: inside the ski indust…
Battle of the botanic garden: the horticulture war roiling the Isle of Wig…
From the archive: Can the greatest darts player of all time step away from…
A tragedy pushed to the shadows: the truth about China’s Cultural Revoluti…
From the archive: Where oil rigs go to die
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…

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