# Longreads

This week

26th March 2023 - 30th March 2023

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: What it's like to be a Premier League referee

Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

9.1k

Sun 9:00 AM

Last week

19th March 2023 - 25th March 2023

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: 'People are at the front line too long, and at a certain point, they crack'

Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

18.2k

Mar 19th 2023, 9:00 AM

Last month

March 2023

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: Inside the competitive, cutthroat world of Oscar campaigning

Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

9.9k

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

Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

9.4k

Mar 5th 2023, 9:00 AM

This year

2023

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: 'He sends a heart emoji every morning, to let her know he’s still alive'

Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

18.6k

Feb 26th 2023, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: An Icelandic town's annual mission to rescue baby Puffins

Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

10.1k

Feb 19th 2023, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: The science behind the syndrome that makes you feel like a fraud

Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

16.4k

Feb 12th 2023, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: The spaceport at the edge of the world

Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

10.9k

Feb 5th 2023, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: The man who repairs the world's most expensive violins

Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

16.3k

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

Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

33.5k

Jan 15th 2023, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: She was an award-winning writer - but did she really exist?

Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

19.5k

Jan 8th 2023, 9:00 AM

# great reads

Sitdown Sunday: The best longreads of the year

Time for our bumper annual round-up.

14.7k

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.

10.7k

Dec 25th 2022, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: Stolen identity, chatbots, and a Patti Smith interview

Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

13.0k

Dec 18th 2022, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: Life lessons after a devastating diagnosis

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21.4k

Dec 11th 2022, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: Hollywood's latest troubling diet craze

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21.2k

Dec 4th 2022, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: The dream home that had a dark past

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15.8k

Nov 27th 2022, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: The World Cup's forgotten team

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12.6k

Nov 20th 2022, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: Are we all just prisoners of geography?

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15.3k

Nov 13th 2022, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: The missing plan for alien first contact

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12.5k

Nov 6th 2022, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: What does it mean to be a witch today?

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13.2k

Oct 30th 2022, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: The last word from Angela Lansbury

Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

17.6k

Oct 16th 2022, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: What it's like to be alone at the edge of the world

Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

18.2k

Oct 9th 2022, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: Who was the real Marilyn Monroe?

Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

16.5k

Oct 2nd 2022, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: Inside Russia's vast surveillance state

Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

21.7k

Sep 25th 2022, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: The mystery phone calls about 'crimes' at Riverside Drive

Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

25.0k

Sep 18th 2022, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: The unique fate of Mikhail Gorbachev

Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

13.8k

Sep 4th 2022, 9:00 AM

# seven great reads

Sitdown Sunday: The socialite who was really a GRU agent

Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

17.7k

Aug 28th 2022, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: How amateurs solved the Zodiac killer's 340 cipher

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17.8k

Aug 21st 2022, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: The people who really hate summer

Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

19.4k

Aug 14th 2022, 9:00 AM

# seven great reads

Sitdown Sunday: How David Trimble went from hardliner to First Minister

Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

13.0k

Jul 31st 2022, 9:00 AM

# sitdown sunday

Sitdown Sunday: How indie authors are using AI to overcome writers block

Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

10.2k

Jul 24th 2022, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: The mystery of Michael Flatley's film Blackbird

Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

29.1k

Jul 17th 2022, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: Inside Boris Johnson's money network

Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

45.4k

Jul 10th 2022, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: Who benefitted from London's Olympics 2012 developments?

Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

17.9k

Jul 3rd 2022, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: The disappearance of flight MH370

Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

22.0k

Jun 26th 2022, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: What did the ancient Maya see in the stars?

Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

18.7k

Jun 5th 2022, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: The faces from China's Uyghur detention camps

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11.1k

May 29th 2022, 9:00 AM

# 7 great reads

Sitdown Sunday: A crime beyond belief

Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

28.1k

May 22nd 2022, 9:00 AM

# seven great reads

Sitdown Sunday: How a university debating society shaped modern British politics

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14.4k

Apr 24th 2022, 9:00 AM