Margaret Atwood: why I don’t write utopias – Audio Long Reads
The Booker winner’s speculative novels imagine bleaker futures. Why not create something more optimistic?
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The ADHD decade: what’s behind the surge in adult diagnoses? – Audio Long Reads
The number of adults being diagnosed with ADHD – a condition once reserved for “problem children” – is booming, yet…
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Britain after a nuclear attack: the BBC film that shocked a generation – Audio Long Reads
Inspired by the leaked Protect and Survive films, in 1984 a BBC team set out to create a relentlessly accurate…
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Rebecca Solnit on hope, despair and climate action – Audio Long Reads
Those facing flood and fire can’t afford to lose hope. Neither should we.
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Grayson Perry on the rise and fall of Default Man – Audio Long Reads
How did he take control – and how can he be dethroned?
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Grow-your-own steak: seeking a cure for the planet’s meat addiction – Audio Long Reads
Every year, 70 billion animals are slaughtered at an enormous environmental cost. How close are we to a high-tech alternative?
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What drives Liz Truss? The people and ideas behind the PM’s economics – Audio Long Reads
A deep history of Britain’s most radical – or reckless – economic experiment in 40 years.
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The making and meaning of Giorgia Meloni – Audio Long Reads
Giorgia Meloni started out as the awkward outsider, a woman from humble Roman roots in an Italy whose politics has…
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