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# longform

# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: A classic interview with the 'Queen of Rock 'n' Roll' Tina Turner
Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
This year
2023
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Sitdown Sunday: The romance novelist who faked her own death
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# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: She was an award-winning writer - but did she really exist?
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# great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The best longreads of the year
Time for our bumper annual round-up.
Last year
2022
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Sitdown Sunday: Hollywood's latest troubling diet craze
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# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The World Cup's forgotten team
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# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: Are we all just prisoners of geography?
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# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The last word from Angela Lansbury
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# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The mystery phone calls about 'crimes' at Riverside Drive
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# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: How the Don't Worry Darling drama captured the internet
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# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The unique fate of Mikhail Gorbachev
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# Podcast
The Explainer: How have abortion laws changed in the US since Roe V Wade was overturned?
Listen in to hear US-based journalist Marion McKeone explain.
# seven great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The socialite who was really a GRU agent
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# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: How amateurs solved the Zodiac killer's 340 cipher
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# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The people who really hate summer
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# sitdown sunday
Sitdown Sunday: How indie authors are using AI to overcome writers block
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# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The mystery of Michael Flatley's film Blackbird
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# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: Inside Boris Johnson's money network
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# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: Who benefitted from London's Olympics 2012 developments?
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# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The disappearance of flight MH370
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# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The faces from China's Uyghur detention camps
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# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The rise of buy now, pay later apps
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# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The secret life of mushrooms
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# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: How Anna Delvey's cons got uncovered
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# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: Rescued after falling deep inside a cave
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# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The tourists who experience 'India syndrome' after falling in love with the country
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All time
# 5 festive reads
5 Christmas longreads for the day that's in it
Need a break? Have a read of one of these.
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Sitdown Sunday: Succession actor Jeremy Strong on his intense approach to his craft
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# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: A road trip with Ireland's most exciting hip hop acts
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# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: How they made the seminal horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
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# evening sitdown
Your Evening Longread: Is it possible to reach peak fitness after 50? Yes
We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.
# evening sitdown
Your Evening Longread: The invisible work of disabled people
We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.
# evening sitdown
Your Evening Longread: How Korean music, TV and film conquered the world
We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.
# evening sitdown
Your Evening Longread: How two journalists risked their jobs to reveal the truth about Jimmy Savile
We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.
# evening sitdown
Your Evening Longread: What we learn when we unfreeze the Ice Age
We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.
# evening sitdown
Your Evening Longread: How Nicholas Braun becomes the bumbling Cousin Greg in Succession
We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The man who lived in an airport for 15 years
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# evening sitdown
Your Evening Longread: The female judges in hiding in Afghanistan
We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.
# evening sitdown
Your Evening Longread: Meet the voices behind the Squid Game VIPs
We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.
# evening sitdown
Your Evening Longread: The epic new TV show that could be the next Game of Thrones
We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.