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# Longreads

This week
24th September 2023 - 26th September 2023
# 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.
13.4k
8
Sun 9:00 AM
Last week
17th September 2023 - 23rd September 2023
# 7 deadly reads
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.
23.2k
16
Sep 17th 2023, 9:00 AM
This month
September 2023
# 7 deadly reads
Sitdown Sunday: Bringing down the biggest match-fixing ring in tennis history
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21.2k
0
Sep 10th 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 deadly reads
Sitdown Sunday: How one man managed to steal millions from billionaires while behind bars
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23.5k
38
Sep 3rd 2023, 9:00 AM
Last month
August 2023
# 7 deadly reads
Sitdown Sunday: Elon Musk's 'brazen and expansive' influence on the US government
Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
15.5k
45
Aug 27th 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 deadly reads
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.
31.6k
1
Aug 6th 2023, 9:00 AM
July
July 2023
# 7 deadly reads
Sitdown Sunday: A small-town paper, a secretly recorded conversation and a big story
Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
22.6k
0
Jul 30th 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 deadly reads
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.
15.2k
4
Jul 23rd 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 deadly reads
Sitdown Sunday: Why are actors joining writers on the picket lines in Hollywood?
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8.4k
10
Jul 16th 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: How numerous warnings about the Titan submersible went ignored by its owner
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18.3k
6
Jul 9th 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: 'The war separated me from many things' - a child's experience of the Ukraine war
Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
10.7k
76
Jul 2nd 2023, 9:00 AM
This year
2023
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: How a murder case in a sleepy town was finally solved after two decades
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27.6k
1
Jun 25th 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: 'People around me were being arrested' - how one Uyghur man fled China
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10.4k
6
Jun 18th 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: 'Praying is good, but penicillin is better' - Mel Brooks on life, Hollywood and happiness
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16.1k
5
Jun 11th 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The director of Succession's series finale breaks down that final episode
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17.6k
1
Jun 4th 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: A classic interview with the late 'Queen of Rock 'n' Roll' Tina Turner
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11.8k
3
May 28th 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: Could AI really escape our control, and what can be done to prevent it?
Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
11.9k
29
May 21st 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The tales of four women who have tried to flee Dubai's royal family
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23.7k
3
May 7th 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: 'I was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Vietnamese jungle'
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19.0k
0
Apr 30th 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The 40-year mystery surrounding three children left at a train station
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49.1k
2
Apr 23rd 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: Inside the real-life succession drama of Rupert Murdoch
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20.2k
5
Apr 16th 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The murder of a young mother that took 26 years to solve
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26.0k
1
Apr 9th 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: What it's like to be a Premier League referee
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9.6k
0
Mar 26th 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: 'People are at the front line too long, and at a certain point, they crack'
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18.6k
3
Mar 19th 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: Inside the competitive, cutthroat world of Oscar campaigning
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10.1k
1
Mar 12th 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: How music's effect on the brain can unlock memories for people with dementia
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9.6k
4
Mar 5th 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: 'He sends a heart emoji every morning, to let her know he’s still alive'
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18.8k
0
Feb 26th 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: An Icelandic town's annual mission to rescue baby Puffins
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10.2k
4
Feb 19th 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The science behind the syndrome that makes you feel like a fraud
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16.6k
1
Feb 12th 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The spaceport at the edge of the world
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11.0k
0
Feb 5th 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The man who repairs the world's most expensive violins
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16.4k
0
Jan 29th 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The twin brothers who cheated in an ultra marathon - and their sort-of redemption
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33.6k
0
Jan 15th 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: She was an award-winning writer - but did she really exist?
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19.7k
3
Jan 8th 2023, 9:00 AM
# great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The best longreads of the year
Time for our bumper annual round-up.
15.0k
0
Jan 1st 2023, 9:00 AM
Last year
2022
# Longreads
Sitdown Sunday: 7 of the year's most fascinating and feelgood longreads
Including an oral history of the Talkboy from Home Alone 2.
10.8k
0
Dec 25th 2022, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: Stolen identity, chatbots, and a Patti Smith interview
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13.1k
0
Dec 18th 2022, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: Life lessons after a devastating diagnosis
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21.6k
2
Dec 11th 2022, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: Hollywood's latest troubling diet craze
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21.3k
2
Dec 4th 2022, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The dream home that had a dark past
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15.9k
0
Nov 27th 2022, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The World Cup's forgotten team
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12.7k
0
Nov 20th 2022, 9:00 AM
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