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Simon Barnard

Simon Barnard is a freelance audio producer

July 2024

  • Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: From Game of Thrones to The Crown: the woman who turns actors into stars – podcast

    This week, from 2018: Nina Gold’s role is invisible, and yet her taste has shaped much of what we watch on film and TV. By Sophie Elmhirst

February 2024

  • Illustration of Air Conditioning Unite by Guardian Design

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The air conditioning trap: how cold air is heating the world – podcast

    From 2019: The warmer it gets, the more we use air conditioning. The more we use air conditioning, the warmer it gets. Is there any way out of this trap? By Stephen Buranyi

January 2024

  • North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un shaking hands with American president Donald Trump

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Inside the bizarre, bungled raid on North Korea’s Madrid embassy – podcast

  • Agate geode macro Artistic macro of an agate geode

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze – podcast

December 2023

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    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The rise and fall of French cuisine – podcast

    This week, from 2019: French food was the envy of the world – before it became trapped by its own history. Can a new school of traditionalists revive its glories?

November 2023

  • Illustration: Shonagh Rae

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: ‘We the people’: the battle to define populism – podcast

  • A huge crowd walks during a silent march in Paris, France, 28 March 2018, in commemoration of Mireille Knoll, an 85-year-old Jewish woman who was murdered in her home in what police believe was an anti-Semitic attack. EPA/YOAN VALAT

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: How the murders of two elderly Jewish women shook France – podcast

May 2023

  • Illustration: Christophe Gowans/Guardian design

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Are your tinned tomatoes picked by slave labour? – podcast

    This week, from 2019: How the Italian mafia makes millions by exploiting migrants

April 2023

  • American inventor John Larson (1892 - 1983) (right) demonstrates the operation of a polygraph or 'lie detector' at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1930s.

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The race to create a perfect lie detector, and the dangers of succeeding – podcast

    This week, from 2019: AI and brain-scanning technology could soon make it possible to reliably detect when people are lying. But do we really want to know?

March 2023

  • Illustration of wet hands outstretched towards an anthropomorphised hand dryer, with anthropomorphised paper towels and germs floating around between them

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands – podcast

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    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: How the MoD’s plan to privatise military housing ended in disaster – podcast

February 2023

  • PRINCESS EMILY<br>Jeremiah Heaton and his seven year-old daughter, Princess Emily, show the flag,July 2, 2014, in Abingdon, Va, that their family designed as they try to claim a piece of land in the Eastern African region of Bir Tawil. (AP Photo/Bristol Herald Courier, David Crigger)

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Welcome to the land that no country wants – podcast

  • The Transocean Winner drilling rig is seen off the coast of the Isle of Lewis after it ran aground in severe weather conditions. Photo credit: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Where oil rigs go to die – podcast

January 2023

  • Composite design of El Chapo's arrest by Marines in Mexico.

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: El Chapo: what the rise and fall of the kingpin reveals about the war on drugs – podcast

  • Social media picture of protesters holding up signs after Ireland rugby internationals Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding were found not guilty of rape, in Dublin, Ireland<br>Protesters hold up signs after Ireland rugby internationals Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding were found not guilty of raping a woman at a 2016 party, in Dublin, Ireland March 29, 2018, in this picture obtained from social media. Twitter/@SUSIEQMUSIC/via REUTERS

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: How the ‘rugby rape trial’ divided Ireland – podcast

December 2022

  • The Dulwich fans known as “The Rabble” behind the goal during the Dulwich Hamlet v Crystal Palace fund-raising friendly match at Imperial Fields, the home ground of Tooting and Mitcham FC in Mitcham on October 11th 2018 in London (Photo by Tom Jenkins)

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Dulwich Hamlet: the tiny football club that lost its home to developers – and won it back – podcast

    This week, from 2018: After they were locked out of their own stadium, an unlikely band of supporters came together to save a beloved south London club. By Tom Lamont

November 2022

  • Long Read China hi-tech surveillance and persecution of Muslims

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: China’s hi-tech war on its Muslim minority – podcast

  • A man drinking a pint of beer

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: How I let drinking take over my life – podcast

  • Defendant Francisco Correa (C) leaves the National Court of San Fernando de Henares after attending the trial on the Gurtel political corruption scandal, in Madrid, Spain, 13 October 2016. After seven years since the network was broke up, a total of 37 defendants stand trial for accusations including bribery, money laundering and tax evasion. The suspects, businessmen lead by Francisco Correa as well as politicians from the ruling People's Party (PP), allegedly committed illegal activities related to the awarding of contracts by local and regional governments like Valencia and Madrid. EPA/FERNANDO VILLAR

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive – Spain’s Watergate: inside the corruption scandal that changed a nation – podcast

  • Aerial views of difference landscapes with man-made construction.

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The Anthropocene epoch: have we entered a new phase of planetary history? – podcast

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