How to grow old in America – Audio Long Reads
A tennis injury – and a spell in the US healthcare system – helped cure my delusions of youth.
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The lonely decade: how the 1990s shaped us – Audio Long Reads
Despite its optimism, the close of the 20th century brought dark warnings about the future – and many have come…
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How to build a language: inside the Oxford English Dictionary – Audio Long Reads
The OED’s task – to define every English word – is as ambitious as it was 150 years ago.
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The psychiatrists who don’t believe in mental illness – Audio Long Reads
As rates of diagnosis rise, a fierce debate rages in psychiatry. Are we experiencing a parallel pandemic or responding rationally…
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How does a music writer grieve? With playlists, of course
On sudden loss, big tunes and the unexpected joy of “griephoria”.
The making of Prince William – Audio Long Reads
He lost his mother at 15, survived ‘Wills Mania’, and clashed with his brother. Can he modernise the monarchy?
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The Belarusian football ultras who took on Alexander Lukashenko – Audio Long Reads
How war in Ukraine and repression at home steered diehard football fans towards protest, prison and exile.
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Nixon, Trump and the lessons of Watergate – Audio Long Reads
Fifty years ago, the scandal that brought down Richard Nixon revealed flaws in American democracy that still haunt US politics…
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