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Best of 2024: ‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s

Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2024, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it. From August: By the time my wife got a diagnosis, her long and harrowing deterioration had already begun. By the end, I was in awe of her. By Michael Aylwin. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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  Best of 2024: Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internat…

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  Revisited: Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who s…

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  10 years of the long read: Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers (2024)

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  10 years of the long read: ‘All that we had is gone’: my lament for war-to…

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  A new nuclear arms race is beginning. It will be far more dangerous than t…

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  Revisited: Too much stuff: can we solve our addiction to consumerism?

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  The scandal of food waste – and how we can stop it

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  ‘I couldn’t cry over my children like everyone else’: the tragedy of Pales…

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  10 years of the long read: Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker: the …

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  A cool flame: how Gaia theory was born out of a secret love affair

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  ‘You tried to tell yourself I wasn’t real’: what happens when people with …

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  10 years of the long read: The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s f…

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  The cement company that paid millions to Isis: was Lafarge complicit in cr…

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  Journalist or Russian spy? The strange case of Pablo González

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  10 years of the long read: The invisible city: how a homeless man built a …