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Tuesday 26 September 2023 Dublin: 15°C

# Longreads

This week
24th September 2023 - 26th September 2023
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.
Last week
17th September 2023 - 23rd September 2023
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.
This month
September 2023
Sitdown Sunday: Bringing down the biggest match-fixing ring in tennis history
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Sitdown Sunday: How one man managed to steal millions from billionaires while behind bars
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Last month
August 2023
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.
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.
July
July 2023
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.
Sitdown Sunday: What it's like to live knowing you might inherit dementia
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Sitdown Sunday: Why are actors joining writers on the picket lines in Hollywood?
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Sitdown Sunday: How numerous warnings about the Titan submersible went ignored by its owner
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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.
This year
2023
Sitdown Sunday: How a murder case in a sleepy town was finally solved after two decades
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Sitdown Sunday: 'People around me were being arrested' - how one Uyghur man fled China
Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
Sitdown Sunday: 'Praying is good, but penicillin is better' - Mel Brooks on life, Hollywood and happiness
Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
Sitdown Sunday: The director of Succession's series finale breaks down that final episode
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Sitdown Sunday: A classic interview with the late 'Queen of Rock 'n' Roll' Tina Turner
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Sitdown Sunday: Could AI really escape our control, and what can be done to prevent it?
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Sitdown Sunday: The tales of four women who have tried to flee Dubai's royal family
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Sitdown Sunday: 'I was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Vietnamese jungle'
Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
Sitdown Sunday: The 40-year mystery surrounding three children left at a train station
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Sitdown Sunday: Inside the real-life succession drama of Rupert Murdoch
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Sitdown Sunday: The murder of a young mother that took 26 years to solve
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Sitdown Sunday: What it's like to be a Premier League referee
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Sitdown Sunday: 'People are at the front line too long, and at a certain point, they crack'
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Sitdown Sunday: Inside the competitive, cutthroat world of Oscar campaigning
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Sitdown Sunday: How music's effect on the brain can unlock memories for people with dementia
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Sitdown Sunday: 'He sends a heart emoji every morning, to let her know he’s still alive'
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Sitdown Sunday: An Icelandic town's annual mission to rescue baby Puffins
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Sitdown Sunday: The science behind the syndrome that makes you feel like a fraud
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Sitdown Sunday: The spaceport at the edge of the world
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Sitdown Sunday: The man who repairs the world's most expensive violins
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Sitdown Sunday: The twin brothers who cheated in an ultra marathon - and their sort-of redemption
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Sitdown Sunday: She was an award-winning writer - but did she really exist?
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Sitdown Sunday: The best longreads of the year
Time for our bumper annual round-up.
Last year
2022
Sitdown Sunday: 7 of the year's most fascinating and feelgood longreads
Including an oral history of the Talkboy from Home Alone 2.
Sitdown Sunday: Stolen identity, chatbots, and a Patti Smith interview
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Sitdown Sunday: Life lessons after a devastating diagnosis
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Sitdown Sunday: Hollywood's latest troubling diet craze
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Sitdown Sunday: The dream home that had a dark past
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Sitdown Sunday: The World Cup's forgotten team
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