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# Longreads

This week
3rd December 2023 - 5th December 2023
Sitdown Sunday: Three men scale Nepal's Mount Jannu with two ropes and a sleeping bag
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22.8k
Sun 9:00 AM
Last week
26th November 2023 - 2nd December 2023
Sitdown Sunday: The couple who fell in love in their care home
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0
19.7k
Nov 26th 2023, 9:00 AM
Last month
November 2023
Sitdown Sunday: The leaked files that raise more questions about how Roman Abramovich funded Chelsea FC
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21.8k
Nov 19th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: A diary of Gaza during war, as told by Palestine's minister of culture
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0
8.6k
Nov 12th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: The unsolved case of two teenagers who left for a concert and never came home
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0
73.8k
Nov 5th 2023, 9:00 AM
This year
2023
Sitdown Sunday: Mick Jagger on The Rolling Stones' new album, aging and the death of Charlie Watts
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26
16.8k
Oct 22nd 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: The ethics of true crime obsession, as told by a mother directly impacted by it
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0
15.7k
Oct 15th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: 'Don't sell your pen' - how Mexican journalists are murdered for telling the truth
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10.9k
Oct 8th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: 'She lost herself in Elvis' - Sofia Coppola on her Priscilla Presley biopic
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23.3k
Oct 1st 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: The office tracking down the last perpetrators of the Holocaust
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7
14.0k
Sep 24th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: The Secret Service agent whose claims raise new questions about JFK's assassination
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23.5k
Sep 17th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: Bringing down the biggest match-fixing ring in tennis history
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0
21.4k
Sep 10th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: How one man managed to steal millions from billionaires while behind bars
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38
23.6k
Sep 3rd 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: Elon Musk's 'brazen and expansive' influence on the US government
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45
15.6k
Aug 27th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: A diver helps to solve cold case murders, until his own past resurfaces
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31.9k
Aug 6th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: A small-town paper, a secretly recorded conversation and a big story
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0
22.7k
Jul 30th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: What it's like to live knowing you might inherit dementia
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4
15.2k
Jul 23rd 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: Why are actors joining writers on the picket lines in Hollywood?
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11
8.4k
Jul 16th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: How numerous warnings about the Titan submersible went ignored by its owner
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6
18.3k
Jul 9th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: 'The war separated me from many things' - a child's experience of the Ukraine war
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76
10.7k
Jul 2nd 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: How a murder case in a sleepy town was finally solved after two decades
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27.7k
Jun 25th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: 'People around me were being arrested' - how one Uyghur man fled China
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6
10.5k
Jun 18th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: 'Praying is good, but penicillin is better' - Mel Brooks on life, Hollywood and happiness
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5
16.2k
Jun 11th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: The director of Succession's series finale breaks down that final episode
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1
17.6k
Jun 4th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: A classic interview with the late 'Queen of Rock 'n' Roll' Tina Turner
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3
11.9k
May 28th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: Could AI really escape our control, and what can be done to prevent it?
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12.0k
May 21st 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: The tales of four women who have tried to flee Dubai's royal family
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3
23.7k
May 7th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: 'I was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Vietnamese jungle'
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0
19.0k
Apr 30th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: The 40-year mystery surrounding three children left at a train station
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2
49.2k
Apr 23rd 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: Inside the real-life succession drama of Rupert Murdoch
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5
20.3k
Apr 16th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: The murder of a young mother that took 26 years to solve
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0
26.1k
Apr 9th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: What it's like to be a Premier League referee
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0
9.7k
Mar 26th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: 'People are at the front line too long, and at a certain point, they crack'
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3
18.6k
Mar 19th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: Inside the competitive, cutthroat world of Oscar campaigning
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1
10.1k
Mar 12th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: How music's effect on the brain can unlock memories for people with dementia
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4
9.6k
Mar 5th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: 'He sends a heart emoji every morning, to let her know he’s still alive'
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0
18.8k
Feb 26th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: An Icelandic town's annual mission to rescue baby Puffins
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4
10.2k
Feb 19th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: The science behind the syndrome that makes you feel like a fraud
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1
16.6k
Feb 12th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: The spaceport at the edge of the world
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0
11.1k
Feb 5th 2023, 9:00 AM
Sitdown Sunday: The man who repairs the world's most expensive violins
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0
16.4k
Jan 29th 2023, 9:00 AM
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