From the archive: Kudos, leaderboards, QOMs: how fitness app Strava became a religion
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 2020: the Strava app offers community, trainin...
14 Tammi 32min
Hard to digest: we still live in Fast Food Nation
Twenty-five years after I revealed the practices of the industrial food giants, the profits – and dangers – of mass producing meat and milk have only grown Written and read by Eric Schlosser. Help sup...
12 Tammi 38min
‘I wish I could say I kept my cool’: my maddening experience with the NHS wheelchair service
After I was paralysed in a climbing accident, I discovered how inconsiderate, illogical and incompetent many wheelchair providers can be By Paul Sagar. Read by Felipe Pacheco. Help support our indepen...
9 Tammi 28min
From the archive: The cartel, the journalist and the gangland killings that rocked the Netherlands
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: In a country known for its liberal drugs...
7 Tammi 56min
Inside the rise and fall of Podemos: ‘We believed we had a stake in the future’
The leftist party exploded out of Spain’s anti-austerity protests in 2011 and upended Spain’s entrenched two-party system. I was instantly captivated – and for the next decade, I worked for the party....
5 Tammi 30min
Best of 2025: ‘A relentless, destructive energy’: inside the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon
Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2025, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we...
2 Tammi 1h 5min
Best of 2025: ‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning
Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2025, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we...
29 Joulu 202544min
Best of 2025: The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job
Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2025, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we...
26 Joulu 202532min
