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• Introducing Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty

  October 3, 2026 · 53 min

  Who is really in charge – the people or the markets? In the first episode of Radical Thinking, a new series from the Guardian, senior economics commentator Aditya Chakrabortty speaks to the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis…

• Introducing Black Box: The Chatbots

  September 5, 2026 · 40 min

  From the Guardian Investigates team: Across the world, hundreds of people have come to believe they have made extraordinary scientific discoveries with AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Others say their AI has ‘awakened’, or…

• Stateside with Kai and Carter: Why the fight over abortion pills is only just beginning

  May 23, 2026 · 43 min

  The US supreme court has preserved nationwide access to mail-order abortion pills, for now. As Carter Sherman explains, the fight to protect this medication is far from over, as a nationwide, near-total abortion ban could be on the…

• Introducing Stateside with Kai and Carter: Stacey Abrams on why gutting of the US Voting Rights Act is ‘evil’

  May 16, 2026 · 35 min

  The US supreme court demolished the 1965 Voting Rights Act when they ruled in Louisiana v Callais in April that states can’t consider race in redistricting. Southern states from Tennessee to Alabama have rushed to erase majority Black…

• Off Duty: The Crime

  March 21, 2026 · 26 min

  On the evening of 29 December 2011, Officer Clifton Lewis was moonlighting as a security guard at a Chicago minimart when two men walked in. They shot Lewis several times, then took off with his gun and police star. A week later, police…

• The Birth Keepers: I choose this – episode one

  December 13, 2025 · 37 min

  The Free Birth Society was selling pregnant women a simple message. They could exit the medical system and take back their power. By free birthing. But Nicole Garrison believes FBS ideology nearly cost her her life. This is episode one of…

• Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode 1

  June 8, 2025 · 27 min

  Three years ago British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous defender Bruno Pereira vanished while on a reporting trip near Brazil’s remote Javari valley. The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips investigates…

• The brain collector: the scientist unravelling the mysteries of grey matter – an Audio Long Read podcast

  April 12, 2025 · 36 min

  Alexandra Morton-Hayward is using cutting-edge methods to crack the secrets of ancient brains – even as hers betrays her There are more Audio Long Reads here, or search Audio Long Read wherever you listen to your podcasts