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Many life-saving drugs fail for lack of funding. But there’s a solution: desperate r…

4/28/2025 • 29 min

Each year, hundreds of potentially world-changing treatments are discarded because scientists run out of cash. But where big pharma or altruists fear to tread, my friend and I have a solution. It’s repugnant, but it will work By Alexander Masters. Read by Tom Andrews. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod Play episode

In search of the South Pacific fugitive who crowned himself king
From the archive: ‘I pleaded for help. No one wrote back’: the pain of wat…
The real Scandi noir: how a filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denma…
Kahane’s ghost: how a long-dead extremist rabbi continues to haunt Israel’…
From the archive: The great betrayal: how the Hillsborough families were f…
My mother, the racist
The reluctant collaborator: surviving Syria’s brutal civil war – and its a…
From the archive: Votes for children! Why we should lower the voting age t…
The Rainham volcano: a waste dump is constantly on fire in east London. Wh…
It came from outer space: the meteorite that landed in a Cotswolds cul-de-…
From the archive: ‘The treeline is out of control’: how the climate crisis…
Holidays in hell: summer camp with Russia’s forgotten children
The savage suburbia of Helen Garner: ‘I wanted to dong Martin Amis with a …
From the archive: Is society coming apart?
The Coventry experiment: why were Indian women in Britain given radioactiv…
My life as a prison officer: ‘It wasn’t just the smell that hit you. It wa…
From the archive: The revolt against liberalism: what’s driving Poland and…
‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisi…
Turkey said it would become a ‘zero waste’ nation. Instead, it became a du…
From the archive: The end of Atlanticism: has Trump killed the ideology th…
Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand?
‘Here lives the monster’s brain’: the man who exposed Switzerland’s dirty …
From the archive: ‘In my 30 years as a GP, the profession has been horribl…
Massacre in the jungle: how an Indigenous man was made the public face of …
Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’
From the archive: One drug dealer, two corrupt cops and a risky FBI sting
Innit innit boys and Super Eagles: how Nigerian Londoners found their iden…
The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symb…
From the archive: Was it inevitable? A short history of Russia’s war on Uk…
The loudest megaphone: how Trump mastered our new attention age
How a young Dutch woman’s life began when she was allowed to die
From the archive: The knackerman: the toughest job in British farming
‘Bring me my tariffs’: how Trump’s China plan was 40 years in the making
Tokyo drift: what happens when a city stops being the future?
From the archive: The false positives scandal: how thousands of innocent C…
The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disap…
Endless work, little money, occasional UFOs: my father’s five decades driv…
From the archive: How one man spent 34 years in prison after setting fire …
The man making a business out of China’s burnout generation
Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s stranges…
From the archive: Inspired by nature: the thrilling new science that could…
‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s …
Inside the Vatican’s secret saint-making process
From the archive: ‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have …
The inspiring scientists who saved the world’s first seed bank
The ‘mad egghead’ who built a mouse utopia
From the archive: Cold comfort: how cold water swimming cured my broken he…
Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother
The brain collector: the scientist unravelling the mysteries of grey matter

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