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 Dec 202532min
Best of 2025: Life in a ‘sinking nation’: Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land
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...
22 Dec 202544min
Best of 2025: The real Scandi noir: how a filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denmark’s self-image
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...
19 Dec 202550min
Best of 2025: Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’
Each week 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’ve chosen it....
17 Dec 202532min
The snail farm don: is this the most brazen tax avoidance scheme of all time?
Terry Ball – renowned shoe salesman, friend to former mafiosi – has vowed to spend his remaining years finding ways to cheat authorities he feels have cheated him. His greatest ruse? A tax-dodging sna...
15 Dec 202533min
The Birth Keepers: I choose this – episode one
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 cos...
13 Dec 202536min
‘DeepSeek is humane. Doctors are more like machines’: my mother’s worrying reliance on AI for health advice
Tired of a two-day commute to see her overworked doctor, my mother turned to tech for help with her kidney disease. She bonded with the bot so much I was scared she would refuse to see a real medic By...
12 Dec 202532min
From the archive: is the IMF fit for purpose?
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: as the world faces the worst debt crisis...
10 Dec 202539min
