Special Edition: 10 years of the Guardian Long Read

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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To celebrate 10 years of The Long Read we gathered together the team who launched it to take you behind the scenes. Helen Pidd is joined by editor David Wolf, deputy editor Clare Longrigg, and former editor and founder of the Long Read Jonathan Shainin.. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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1:19.8	Hi it's Helen Pitt here from The Guardians Today in Focus podcast.
1:23.6	We're doing something a little bit different today
1:25.9	and celebrating 10 years of the Guardian long read
1:29.7	by speaking to the people who were there at the very start.
1:33.3	In 2014 an Ebola outbreak was spreading in West Africa.
1:37.1	Flight MH370 had disappeared somewhere between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing.
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1:44.0	and Scotland was about to vote in the independence referendum.
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