From the archive: The last phone boxes: broken glass, cider cans and – amazingly – a dial tone
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: Five million payphone calls are still ma...
30 Apr 202532min
Many life-saving drugs fail for lack of funding. But there’s a solution: desperate rich people
Each year, hundreds of potentially world-changing treatments are discarded because scientists run out of cash. But where big pharma or altruists fear to tread, my friend and I have a solution. It’s re...
28 Apr 202529min
In search of the South Pacific fugitive who crowned himself king
Noah Musingku made a fortune with a Ponzi scheme and then retreated to a remote armed compound in the jungle, where he still commands the loyalty of his Bougainville subjects By Sean Williams. Read by...
25 Apr 202547min
From the archive: ‘I pleaded for help. No one wrote back’: the pain of watching my country fall to the Taliban
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 2021: As the fighters advanced on Kabul, it wa...
23 Apr 202530min
The real Scandi noir: how a filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denmark’s self-image
The Black Swan follows a repentant master criminal as she sets up corrupt clients in front of hidden cameras. But is she really reformed – and is the director up to his own tricks? By Samanth Subraman...
21 Apr 202547min
Kahane’s ghost: how a long-dead extremist rabbi continues to haunt Israel’s politics
A violent fanatic and pioneer in bigotry, Meir Kahane died a political outcast 35 years ago. Today, his ideas influence the very highest levels of government By Joshua Leifer. Read by Kerry Shale. Hel...
18 Apr 202546min
From the archive: The great betrayal: how the Hillsborough families were failed by the justice system
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 2021: After 32 years of establishment lies, me...
15 Apr 202549min
My mother, the racist
She spent her life in northern France doing exhausting, back-breaking work – and yet she turned her anger against people who had done no wrongs to her. But as much as I couldn’t stand her rants, I was...
14 Apr 202532min
