Audio Long Reads, from the New Statesman

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The New Statesman is the UK's leading politics and culture magazine. Here you can listen to a selection of our very best reported features and essays read aloud. Get immersed in powerful storytelling and narrative journalism from some of the world's best writers. Have your mind opened by influential thinkers on the forces shaping our lives today.


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Episode Date
The UK’s leading romance fraud specialist
Feb 13, 2024
The great private school con
Nov 11, 2023
How Rishi Sunak became the first Silicon Valley prime minister
Nov 04, 2023
Israel, Hamas and the unravelling of the West
Oct 28, 2023
Has your AI therapist got your back?
Oct 14, 2023
How Britain became a dangerous place to have a baby
Oct 07, 2023
A year inside GB News: "We’re going to disrupt"
Sep 30, 2023
The philosopher and the crypto king: Sam Bankman-Fried and the effective altruism delusion
Sep 23, 2023
How Chile (almost) democratised Big Tech
Sep 19, 2023
The prime minister and the AI that solved the climate crisis
Sep 09, 2023
Summer of Light: a new short story by Jonathan Coe
Sep 02, 2023
Escaping Eden: life after the Plymouth Brethren
Aug 26, 2023
In defence of counterfactual history
Aug 19, 2023
What Simone De Beauvoir knew about loss, by Ali Smith
Aug 12, 2023
George Monbiot: how I escape climate despair
Aug 05, 2023
The 1922 committee: inside the Conservatives’ assassination bureau | Audio Long Read
Jul 29, 2023
How Saudi Arabia is buying the world
Jul 22, 2023
The Spanish election reveals the future of Europe
Jul 15, 2023
Is male fertility in freefall?
Jul 08, 2023
What we learned from the Wagner mutiny
Jul 01, 2023
A warning from the godfathers of AI
Jun 24, 2023
The risky rise of medical self-diagnosis
Jun 17, 2023
How did parenthood become an unaffordable luxury?
Jun 10, 2023
How the rich got richer: welcome to the age of ‘greedflation’
Jun 03, 2023
Inside the Conservative party’s radical right
May 27, 2023
‘It’s a state of terror’: inside Haiti’s descent into chaos
May 20, 2023
Why Liverpool bet big on Eurovision
May 13, 2023
Inside the mind of King Charles III
May 06, 2023
The slow, sad death of the print newspaper
Apr 29, 2023
Xi, Putin and the new world order
Apr 22, 2023
Confessions of a philosopher: Bryan Magee’s final interview
Apr 15, 2023
Inside the migrant revival of British Christianity
Apr 08, 2023
Why Taiwan is already under attack
Apr 01, 2023
Are we headed for another banking crisis?
Mar 25, 2023
The long shadow of the Iraq War: how one town honoured Britain’s fallen soldiers
Mar 18, 2023
The long and stupid decline of the British university
Mar 11, 2023
The strange death of moderate conservatism
Mar 04, 2023
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
Feb 25, 2023
Can literature teach us how to grieve?
Feb 18, 2023
The great housing con: why the coming crash will rewrite the UK economy
Feb 11, 2023
“Nothing prepares you”: a journey through Ukraine at war
Feb 04, 2023
Lea Ypi on mothers, the motherland and the cruelties of UK immigration
Jan 28, 2023
A doctor’s prescription for saving the NHS
Jan 21, 2023
The good social network: what Twitter could learn from the coffeehouse
Jan 14, 2023
From the archive: Trotsky in Mexico; Angela Carter on the maternity ward
Jan 07, 2023
From the archive: when HG Wells met Josef Stalin
Dec 31, 2022
Then Later, His Ghost: a Christmas story by Sarah Hall
Dec 24, 2022
Karl Ove Knausgaard: a personal manifesto on the art of fiction
Dec 17, 2022
A brief history of “woke”: how one word fuelled the culture wars
Dec 10, 2022
World Prince: what drives Emmanuel Macron’s global ambitions?
Dec 03, 2022
Are 'Substackademics' the new public intellectuals?
Nov 26, 2022
Era of the rogue superpower: what Trump’s bid means for the US, Russia and China
Nov 19, 2022
Margaret Atwood: why I don’t write utopias
Nov 12, 2022
The ADHD decade: what’s behind the surge in adult diagnoses?
Nov 05, 2022
Britain after a nuclear attack: the BBC film that shocked a generation
Oct 29, 2022
Rebecca Solnit on hope, despair and climate action
Oct 22, 2022
Grayson Perry on the rise and fall of Default Man
Oct 15, 2022
Grow-your-own steak: seeking a cure for the planet’s meat addiction
Oct 08, 2022
What drives Liz Truss? The people and ideas behind the PM’s economics
Oct 01, 2022
The making and meaning of Giorgia Meloni
Sep 24, 2022
Would there have been climate change under socialism?
Sep 17, 2022
Queen Elizabeth II and the end of empire
Sep 10, 2022
What is left of Princess Diana?
Sep 03, 2022
Archive: I was Joni Mitchell’s “Carey”
Aug 27, 2022
The battle for the soul of English cricket
Aug 20, 2022
How the British university degree lost its value
Aug 13, 2022
Thomas Mann, German identity and the romantic allure of Russia
Aug 06, 2022
Euro 22: how women’s football became the more beautiful game
Jul 30, 2022
Boris Johnson: the death of the clown
Jul 23, 2022
How to grow old in America
Jul 16, 2022
The lonely decade: how the 1990s shaped us
Jul 09, 2022
How to build a language: inside the Oxford English Dictionary
Jul 02, 2022
The psychiatrists who don’t believe in mental illness
Jun 25, 2022
How does a music writer grieve? With playlists of course
Jun 18, 2022
The making of Prince William
Jun 11, 2022
The Belarusian football ultras who took on Alexander Lukashenko
Jun 04, 2022
Nixon, Trump and the lessons of Watergate
May 28, 2022
Wrestling with Orwell: Ian McEwan on the art of the political novel
May 21, 2022
The movie that doesn’t exist (and the fans who think it does)
May 14, 2022
A year inside GB News: "what the hell have we done?"
May 07, 2022
Stalin and Putin: a tale of two dictators
Apr 30, 2022
What does a doctor do?
Apr 23, 2022
How the trial of the Colston Four was won
Apr 16, 2022
Travelling through Macron’s France, from the Channel to the Mediterranean
Apr 09, 2022
Operation Warm Welcome: the hotel that became home to 100 refugees
Apr 09, 2022
Big Tech and the quest for eternal youth
Apr 09, 2022
I was Joni Mitchell’s “Carey”: an interview with Cary Raditz
Apr 09, 2022
Trailer: Audio Long Reads, from the New Statesman
Apr 01, 2022