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# 7 great reads

This week
24th March 2024 - 29th March 2024
Sitdown Sunday: How DNA tests are uncovering the true prevalence of incest
Last week
17th March 2024 - 23rd March 2024
Sitdown Sunday: What it's like to have your childhood made into online content
This month
March 2024
Sitdown Sunday: 43 Mexican students vanished in 2014 - their families are still looking for answers
Sitdown Sunday: How the Disney Company carefully created millions of lifelong consumers
Last month
February 2024
Sitdown Sunday: From Walkmans to Game Boys - meet the people who still use retro gadgets
Sitdown Sunday: Two Irish businessmen, a Nigerian gas deal and an $11 billion arbitration case
Sitdown Sunday: The mysterious death of a teenager living a double life in London's criminal underworld
Sitdown Sunday: 'There are about 295 deaths a day' - inside the global fentanyl crisis
This year
2024
Sitdown Sunday: What is it like to spend 500 days alone in a cave?
Sitdown Sunday: The Beluga whale who escaped the Russian Navy
Sitdown Sunday: The forensic entomologist who uses insects to help solve murders
Sitdown Sunday: Inside the new biography about Elon Musk, 'the boy who wanted to be a man'
Last year
2023
Sitdown Sunday: The house with over 720,000 Christmas lights
Sitdown Sunday: Exploring the best and worst episodes of The Crown
Sitdown Sunday: 'This is the happiest I’ve ever felt' - Taylor Swift is in her Person of the Year Era
Sitdown Sunday: Three men scale Nepal's Mount Jannu with two ropes and a sleeping bag
Sitdown Sunday: The couple who fell in love in their care home
Sitdown Sunday: The leaked files that raise more questions about how Roman Abramovich funded Chelsea FC
Sitdown Sunday: A diary of Gaza during war, as told by Palestine's minister of culture
Sitdown Sunday: The unsolved case of two teenagers who left for a concert and never came home
Sitdown Sunday: Mick Jagger on The Rolling Stones' new album, aging and the death of Charlie Watts
Sitdown Sunday: The ethics of true crime obsession, as told by a mother directly impacted by it
Sitdown Sunday: 'Don't sell your pen' - how Mexican journalists are murdered for telling the truth
Sitdown Sunday: 'She lost herself in Elvis' - Sofia Coppola on her Priscilla Presley biopic
Sitdown Sunday: The office tracking down the last perpetrators of the Holocaust
Sitdown Sunday: The Secret Service agent whose claims raise new questions about JFK's assassination
Sitdown Sunday: Bringing down the biggest match-fixing ring in tennis history
Sitdown Sunday: Elon Musk's 'brazen and expansive' influence on the US government
Sitdown Sunday: A small-town paper, a secretly recorded conversation and a big story
Sitdown Sunday: Why are actors joining writers on the picket lines in Hollywood?
Sitdown Sunday: How numerous warnings about the Titan submersible went ignored by its owner
Sitdown Sunday: 'The war separated me from many things' - a child's experience of the Ukraine war
Sitdown Sunday: How a murder case in a sleepy town was finally solved after two decades
Sitdown Sunday: 'People around me were being arrested' - how one Uyghur man fled China
Sitdown Sunday: 'Praying is good, but penicillin is better' - Mel Brooks on life, Hollywood and happiness
Sitdown Sunday: The director of Succession's series finale breaks down that final episode
Sitdown Sunday: A classic interview with the late 'Queen of Rock 'n' Roll' Tina Turner
Sitdown Sunday: Could AI really escape our control, and what can be done to prevent it?
Sitdown Sunday: The tales of four women who have tried to flee Dubai's royal family
Sitdown Sunday: 'I was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Vietnamese jungle'