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# 7 deadly reads

Sitdown Sunday: The office tracking down the last perpetrators of the Holocaust
Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
Last week
17th September 2023 - 23rd September 2023
Sitdown Sunday: The Secret Service agent whose claims raise new questions about JFK's assassination
Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
This month
September 2023
Sitdown Sunday: Bringing down the biggest match-fixing ring in tennis history
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Sitdown Sunday: How one man managed to steal millions from billionaires while behind bars
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Last month
August 2023
Sitdown Sunday: Elon Musk's 'brazen and expansive' influence on the US government
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Sitdown Sunday: How an ordinary nurse became the UK's latest serial killer
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Sitdown Sunday: A summer camp for grieving children
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Sitdown Sunday: A diver helps to solve cold case murders, until his own past resurfaces
Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
This year
2023
Sitdown Sunday: A small-town paper, a secretly recorded conversation and a big story
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Sitdown Sunday: What it's like to live knowing you might inherit dementia
Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
Sitdown Sunday: Why are actors joining writers on the picket lines in Hollywood?
Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
All time
Sitdown Sunday: The real life Succession
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Sitdown Sunday: Amanda Knox on keeping her child's birth secret
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Sitdown Sunday: 'I'll keep searching for missing Esther'
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Sitdown Sunday: 'What happened when I tried to quit my Diet Coke habit'
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
Sitdown Sunday: 'Michaela? I just want you to know I’m really proud of you'
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Sitdown Sunday: I met my boyfriend 12 years after our child was conceived...
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Sitdown Sunday: The reality show that leaves two people 'naked and afraid' in the wilderness
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Sitdown Sunday: How the Love is Blind cast felt about the show
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Sitdown Sunday: Inside 'the Stalinist Truman Show'
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Sitdown Sunday: Life and romance aren't like the movies
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Sitdown Sunday: Why we get the 'Sunday scaries' before work
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Sitdown Sunday: The oldest person who ever lived... or a fraud?
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Sitdown Sunday: The boy who they claimed died and saw heaven
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Sitdown Sunday: How far can abused women go to protect themselves?
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Sitdown Sunday: The secret history of facial recognition
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Sitdown Sunday: The sinking of the Estonia
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Sitdown Sunday: The doctor, the dentist, and the killer
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Sitdown Sunday: The enduring mystery of the Dyatlov Pass incident
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Sitdown Sunday: The best longreads of 2019
One great longread a month from the year that was.
Sitdown Sunday: 'I've been saying goodbye to my family for two years'
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Sitdown Sunday: Where is Ghislaine Maxwell?
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Sitdown Sunday: Why the Christian right loves Trump
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Sitdown Sunday: Radical think-tanks reshape the Conservative party
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Sitdown Sunday: The story of the tragedy at Aberfan
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Sitdown Sunday: The true story behind the 'cannibal rat-infested ghost ship'
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Sitdown Sunday: The women who helped build Hollywood
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Sitdown Sunday: 'The patient they had just taken off life support was not their brother'
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Sitdown Sunday: How a knock on the wrong door ended the life of a Japanese teen in the US
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Sitdown Sunday: 'Did this happen? Or did I just have a really, really bad dream?'
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