Counting down to zero: the final warning from a climate diplomat
Before Peter Betts died in 2023, he wanted to pass on what he had learned over many years of negotiating at Cops – including how Paris 2015 was saved at the last bell By Peter Betts. Read by Andrew Mc...
10 Nov 202527min
Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet
A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life By Samanth Subramanian. Read by Raj Gha...
7 Nov 202532min
From the archive: A drowning world: Kenya’s quiet slide underwater
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: Kenya’s great lakes are flooding, in a d...
5 Nov 202527min
‘Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth’: a Chinese journalist on the US under Trump
Once a stalwart of Hong Kong’s journalism scene, Wang Jian has found a new audience on YouTube, dissecting global politics and US-China relations since the pandemic. To his fans, he’s part newscaster,...
3 Nov 202530min
The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job
From murder scenes to whale blubber, Ben Giles has seen it – and cleaned it – all. In their stickiest hours, people rely on him to restore order By Tom Lamont. Read by Elis James. Help support our ind...
31 Okt 202530min
From the archive: The queen of crime-solving
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: forensic scientist Angela Gallop has hel...
29 Okt 202541min
A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0
If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...
27 Okt 202525min
‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang
In the 1970s, the radical leftwing German terrorist organisation may have spread fear through public acts of violence – but its inner workings were characterised by vanity and incompetence By Jason Bu...
24 Okt 202536min
