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

Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2022, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it. This week, from October: For one of our many adolescent pranks, my friend and I planted tips about an obscure young footballer. Then he suddenly started going places. What had we done?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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  Foreign mothers, foreign tongues: ‘In another universe, she could have bee…

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  From the archive: Why do people hate vegans?

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  The trials of an Indian witness: how a Muslim man was caught in a legal ni…

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  ‘I know where the bodies are buried’: one woman’s mission to change how th…

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  From the archive: Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight…

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  Baghdad memories: what the first few months of the US occupation felt like…

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  Dinner with Proust: how Alzheimer’s caregivers are pulled into their patie…

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  From the archive: How the MoD’s plan to privatise military housing ended i…

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  ‘One billionaire at a time’: inside the Swiss clinics where the super-rich…

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  From the archive: The real David Attenborough

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  No coach, no agent, no ego: the incredible story of the ‘Lionel Messi of c…

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  From the archive: Fifty shades of white: the long fight against racism in …

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  Portrait of a killer: art class in one of Mexico’s most notorious prisons

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  From the archive: Welcome to the land that no country wants

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  Can a mass shooter demand a good death? The strange case that tested the l…

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  From the archive: Snow machines and fleece blankets: inside the ski indust…