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The Guardian Archive Long Read.

Hi, my name is Charlotte Higgins, and I'm the author of Ukraine's Death Defying Art Rescuers,

which was published as a Guardian Long Read in 2024.

This piece has been selected as a featured archive to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Longreed.

Every week, the Audio Long-Read archive will feature a piece from each year of the past decade. And I've been

writing for the Long Read for all of its 10 years, and I'm really happy that this piece has been

chosen for 2024's archive and brings us right up to the present.

I am the Guardian's chief culture writer. So in many ways it's slightly odd and anomalous that for

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