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Your evening longread: She wanted a roommate. What was the worst that could happen?
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Feb 5th 2021, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: Jeff Bezos and the world Amazon made
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Feb 4th 2021, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: What trashy novels taught one woman about life
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Feb 3rd 2021, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: The secret society of lightning strike survivors
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Feb 2nd 2021, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: The rise of platonic co-parenting
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Feb 1st 2021, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: The unbreakable bond between humans and dogs
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Jan 27th 2021, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: Why Halima Aden quit being a supermodel
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Jan 22nd 2021, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: Joe Biden on having a stutter
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Jan 21st 2021, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: How do food trends happen - and what will we be eating in 2021?
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Jan 18th 2021, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: David Bowie's legacy five years on
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Jan 12th 2021, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: How the Fifa video game changed football
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Jan 4th 2021, 8:30 PM
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Sitdown Sunday: The Wild Mountain Thyme director on 'not making this movie for the Irish'
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Dec 13th 2020, 9:00 AM
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Your evening longread: What you need to know about how your brain works
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Dec 3rd 2020, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: The remarkable life of Shirley Temple
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Dec 2nd 2020, 8:30 PM
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Sitdown Sunday: Meet Adriene, the queen of pandemic yoga
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Nov 29th 2020, 9:00 AM
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Your evening longread: The 10-year-old drummer who impressed Dave Grohl
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Nov 25th 2020, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: The highs and lows of trying to be productive at work
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Nov 19th 2020, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: How shows like The Simpsons and South Park changed culture
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Nov 11th 2020, 8:33 PM
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You evening longread: Marge Vs The Monorail
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Nov 6th 2020, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: Sigourney Weaver on how she's always refused to be pinned down
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Oct 23rd 2020, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: Is a secret device being used to target American diplomats and spies?
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Oct 22nd 2020, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: How our mind-boggling sense of smell works
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Oct 20th 2020, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: The twin brothers who were former child soldiers
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Oct 13th 2020, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: The woman who smuggled her boyfriend out of prison
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Oct 12th 2020, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: An Alaskan island that humans keep trying to conquer
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Oct 9th 2020, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: What it's like to be a high-wire artist
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Sep 29th 2020, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: The race to redesign sugar
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Sep 28th 2020, 8:30 PM
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Sitdown Sunday: The election 'that could break America'
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Sep 27th 2020, 9:00 AM
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Your evening longread: How Instagram changed our lives over the past 10 years
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Sep 25th 2020, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: The long-running influence of Enya
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Sep 24th 2020, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: 'I couldn't move my legs - I knew my life would change forever'
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Sep 22nd 2020, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: The sold-out flight that goes... nowhere
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Sep 21st 2020, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: A brief history of the music video
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Sep 17th 2020, 8:33 PM
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Your evening longread: The woman who brought her trafficker to justice
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Sep 14th 2020, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: The long search for the missing ship Vasa
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Sep 10th 2020, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: The nun who saved 83 Jewish children
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Sep 9th 2020, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: She wrote a bestselling book - why did its follow-up take 15 years?
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Sep 7th 2020, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: The rise of the TikTok 'content house'
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Sep 4th 2020, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: How Spotify affected the alt-rock algorithm
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Sep 3rd 2020, 8:30 PM
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Your evening longread: The story of the original fake news network
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Sep 2nd 2020, 8:30 PM
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