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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: From the archive: how two BBC journalists risked their jobs to reveal the truth about Jimmy Savile
Pub date: 2025-07-23

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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: listening to the women who alleged abuse, and fighting to get their stories heard, helped change the treatment of victims by the media and the justice system By Poppy Sebag-Montefiore. Read by Caroline Wildi. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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Podcast: Works in Progress Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: How Henry VIII accidentally started the Industrial Revolution, with Anton Howes
Pub date: 2025-07-29

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Historian Anton Howes discusses how Henry VIII turned Britain into an economic backwater – making it the unlikeliest place for the Industrial Revolution to happen. But, he explains it only took a small cabal of people who understood the problems of the time to turn the fate of the country (and thus, the world) around.

You can learn more about the history of the Industrial Revolution on Anton's Substack, Age of Invention. And you can learn more about progress at Works in Progress. 

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Podcast: Threshold (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Hark | 12 | Trailblazers
Pub date: 2025-07-01

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Elephants communicate through a variety of calls, trumpets, and rumbles. But despite being some of the largest land animals on Earth, elephants  can also be incredibly quiet. In this episode, we open our ears to  elephants and discover how listening may play a key role in saving them.

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Podcast: Planet Money (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Why are we so obsessed with manufacturing?
Pub date: 2025-07-18

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It seems like politicians cannot agree on a lot. But many seem to agree on... manufacturing. Leaders of both political parties have been working to try and make the U.S. a manufacturing powerhouse again.

On today's show, what is so special about manufacturing? Is it particularly important for the economy? And if manufacturing jobs are so great, then why have companies been struggling to fill the manufacturing jobs we already have?

For more on manufacturing in the U.S:

- Made in America, an episode about what manufacturing work in the U.S. can be like for garment workers and how much they're paid to make each piece of clothing "made in the U.S."
- Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have?
- What makes manufacturing jobs special? The answer could help rebuild the middle class
- Can bringing back manufacturing help the heartland catch up with 'superstar' cities?
- And, for more, check out the Planet Money newsletter's manufacturing series at npr.org/manufacturing

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Podcast: Ologies with Alie Ward (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Fromology (CHEESE) Part 1 with Kyra James
Pub date: 2025-07-09

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Soft. Hard. Fresh. Aged. Stinky. Illegal. Let’s talk cheese with Certified Cheese Professional (CCP) and Fromologist, Kyra James. We chat about proprietary bacterial slurries, basement caves, cheese knife etiquette, rind eating, vegetarian versus vegan cheeses, cheese history, different warm-blooded animals whose milk is used for cheese, American cheese side-eye, shoe deodorizers, and how to chat up a monger. 

And come back next week to learn more about plant-based cheese options, how to properly store cheese, the difference between orange and white cheddar, the grilled sandwich debate, DIY cheese, pricey varieties, squeaky curds, the moon’s composition, how cheese changes your brain chemistry, and the ultimate charcuterie board. Plus: holes and crystals and maggots, oh my! 

[Content warning: we discuss dairy and do make acknowledgments of animal rights concerns, and next week we discuss vegan options in more depth. However this episode and expert’s focus isn’t the ethics of dairy farming as a whole, but rather the process of cheesemaking. We do have a future episode planned about plant-based diets.]

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Podcast: BlomCast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: [45] Laura Spinney — The First Human Language and How We Think
Pub date: 2025-07-06

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Once more a dive into deep history, this time into the question how languages developed, and how it is possible to reconstruct the history and genesis of languages, and with them of abstract thinking and civilisation. Laura Spinney is a distinguished and bestselling science writer. In her new book Proto she looks at the world of languages before the indo-european and sino-tibetan language families that today represent the bulk of the 7000 or so languages still spoken today. But apart from the mere question of history: how does language colour and influence the way we think about the world and we perceive it? How do we think about things for which we lack the vocabulary? This question has preoccupied philosophers for centuries and we try to apply Laura’s historical insights to throw a little light on the matter.

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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Poison in the water: the town with the world’s worst case of forever chemicals contamination
Pub date: 2025-07-28

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When a small Swedish town discovered their drinking water contained extremely high levels of Pfas, they had no idea what it would mean for their health and their children’s future. By Marta Zaraska. Read by Myanna Buring. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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Podcast: IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson (LS 73 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Focus On What’s Right About Young Men with Barack Obama
Pub date: 2025-07-16

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Former President of the United States Barack Obama sits down with Michelle and Craig to answer a listener’s question about raising emotionally intelligent young men. President Obama shares how being raised by a single mother impacted his definition of manhood and how a formative experience in Indonesia taught him about self-sufficiency. Michelle and Craig reflect on the example of masculinity their own father set, and the group shares why community is key to raising boys in today’s day and age. Plus, he shares why he’s optimistic about the next generation.

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Podcast: Making Science with Tom Whipple
Episode: Are friars electric?
Pub date: 2025-07-01

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In 1746, Antoine Nolie conducted an experiment with 200 monks to determine the speed of an electric current - by making the monks stand in a circle holding brass poles and connecting them to a large battery. What could possibly go wrong? And what would this experiment reveal about the way electrons flow?

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Podcast: 13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble (LS 73 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The Space Shuttle: 1. The spaceplane
Pub date: 2025-07-14

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Can Nasa build the most complex flying machine in space history? The plan is to create a permanent human presence in space.

It’s Spring 1969 - two months before the launch of Apollo 11 – the first US mission to land humans on the moon. But meanwhile, hidden away from public view, Nasa is thinking the unthinkable.

Maverick engineer Dr Max Faget is already a legend within Nasa. He’s fascinated by what could be next for human spaceflight. In a backroom, of Building 36 at Johnson Space Center, he invites a handful of engineers to a meeting. One of them is Ivy Hooks, a mathematician and engineer. And one of the first female engineers at Nasa.

Some scenes in this series use recreated sound effects.

13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle is a BBC Audio Science Unit production for BBC World Service.

Hosted by space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock.

Theme music by Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg, and produced by Russell Emanuel, for Bleeding Fingers Music.

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Richard Nixon launches Nasa’s space shuttle programme, CBS News, 1972

Mission audio and oral histories, Nasa History Office

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