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Weekend

Weekend

By: The Guardian
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 Every Saturday, the Weekend podcast brings some of the best Guardian writing from the week, read by talented narrators. Listen to celebrity interviews, lifestyle features, and opinions from our most popular columnists including Marina Hyde and John Crace. Weekend is the perfect way to relax.© 2026 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. Politics & Government
Episodes
  • The Birth Keepers: I choose this – episode one

    The Birth Keepers: I choose this – episode one
    Dec 13 2025
    The Free Birth Society was selling pregnant women a simple message. They could exit the medical system and take back their power. By free birthing. But Nicole Garrison believes FBS ideology nearly cost her her life. This is episode one of a year-long investigation by Guardian journalists Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne Listen to the full series from The Guardian Investigates podcast
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    37 mins
  • Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode 1

    Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode 1
    Jun 8 2025
    Three years ago British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous defender Bruno Pereira vanished while on a reporting trip near Brazil’s remote Javari valley. The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips investigates what happened in the first episode of a new six-part investigative podcast series. Find episode 2 – and all future episodes – by searching for “Missing in the Amazon”
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    27 mins
  • The brain collector: the scientist unravelling the mysteries of grey matter – an Audio Long Read podcast

    The brain collector: the scientist unravelling the mysteries of grey matter – an Audio Long Read podcast
    Apr 12 2025
    Alexandra Morton-Hayward is using cutting-edge methods to crack the secrets of ancient brains – even as hers betrays her There are more Audio Long Reads here, or search Audio Long Read wherever you listen to your podcasts
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    36 mins
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I absolutely loved this I heard it but I also felt it almost like I was there listening in on the interviews . I loved the way it felt like I was there listening to a normal everyday conversation and felt that . I to lack in confidence and will go over and over everything I said in a conversation.

Cillian Murphy was the reason I listened

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