The Audio Long Read

Listen, download, subscribe

Apple Podcasts

Spotify

From the archive: Sewage sleuths: the men who revealed the slow, dirty death of Welsh and English rivers

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: A tide of effluent, broken laws and ruthless cuts is devastating the nation’s waterways. An academic and a detective have dredged up the truth of how it was allowed to happen – but will anything be done? By Oliver Bullough. Read by Peter Searles. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

• 

  Counting down to zero: the final warning from a climate diplomat

• 

  Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from th…

• 

  From the archive: A drowning world: Kenya’s quiet slide underwater

• 

  ‘Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth’: a Chin…

• 

  The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned f…

• 

  From the archive: The queen of crime-solving

• 

  A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0

• 

  ‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall …

• 

  From the archive: Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famou…

• 

  The origins of today’s conflict between American Jews over Israel

• 

  ‘I have to do it’: why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists lef…

• 

  From the archive: ‘Infertility stung me’: Black motherhood and me

• 

  ‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning

• 

  Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o an…

• 

  From the archive: The Blackstone rebellion: how one country took on the wo…

• 

  ‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecologic…