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From the archive: Super-prime mover: Britain’s most successful estate agent

5/21/2025 • 42 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 2022: Gary Hersham has been selling houses to the very rich for decades. At first, £1m was a big deal. Now he sells for £50m, £100m, even £200m. What does it take to stay on top in this cut-throat business? By … Play episode

A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the far right
‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own …
From the archive: What lies beneath: the truth about France’s top serial k…
‘Why would he take such a risk?’ How a famous Chinese author befriended hi…
The mystery of the nameless girl found dead in a Spanish border town
From the archive: Food fraud and counterfeit cotton: the detectives untang…
From acid house to ancient rites: Jeremy Deller’s enormous, collaborative,…
What happens when the US declares war on your parents? The Black Panther C…
From the archive: The last phone boxes: broken glass, cider cans and – ama…
Many life-saving drugs fail for lack of funding. But there’s a solution: d…
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

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