The Audio Long Read Creators & Guests

Joshan Chana is a freelance audio producer and sound designer.Chana has worked on projects for clients such as BBC News, BBC Radio 4, The Guardian, and UK Parliament.

Jack Claramunt is an audio producer. Currently, he produces their podcast "Comfort Eating with Grace Dent."Previously, Claramunt has produced for the BBC and Studio71.

Iain Chambers is a composer, producer, and performer. His music often deploys field recordings and location sounds as musical material. He launched the independent record label Persistence of Sound, and is a founding member of Langham Research Centre, an electronic music ensemble using obsolete Cold War era technology to create new music.Chambers was a member of the duo Bow Mods, which released one album and two EPs. He has produced programmes at BBC Radio 3.

Rachel Porter is a journalist and audio producer. Currently, she produces podcasts for The Guardian.Previously, Porter produced podcasts for the BBC, the podcast "The Stance," and HuffPo.Porter received her B.A. in English Literature from the University of Leeds, where she worked at Leeds Student Radio.

Nicola Alexandrou is a producer. Currently, she produces podcasts for The Guardian and audiobooks for Forever Audio. She also hosts and produces the show "Hoxton Movies" on Hoxton Radio.

Anthony Onuchukwu is a composer, sound designer, and freelance audio producer. He produces podcasts, radio documentaries, and does sound design. He is half of the duo Nu Garçon.Onuchukwu is also a former medical doctor.Onuchukwu received his MBBS from Charles University and his M.A. in audio production from the University of Westminster.

Hattie Moir is a freelance audio producer. Currently, she produces The Guardian's "Pop Culture" podcast.

Esther Opoku Gyeni is a journalist, radio and podcast producer, digital artist, and poet. Currently, she is Associate Manager at Spotify.Previously, Gyeni was the producer of The Guardian's "Audio Long Read" Podcast.Gyeni received her B.A. in History from School of Oriental and African Studies University of London and her M.A. in Broadcast Journalism from City University of London.

Simon Barnard is an audio producer. He founded the production company Bafflegab Productions.Previously, Barnard was a freelance producer who worked for The Guardian and Fubar Radio.

Audio producer on The Big Take podcast from Bloomberg News. Past: The Guardian, NPR, BBC, and Heist with Michael Caine for Audible Originals.

Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes.Roy is best known for her first novel, "The God of Small Things," which was published in 1997, and which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author.

Oliver Burkeman is a journalist for the British newspaper The Guardian.

Patrick Wintour is an international affairs journalist who covers conflicts, diplomacy, and global politics. Currently, he is the diplomatic editor of The Guardian.Wintour began his journalism career in 1976 at the New Statesman. In 1983, he joined The Guardian as chief Labour Correspondent, becoming Chief Political Correspondent in 1988, Political Editor at The Observer in 1996, Chief Political Correspondent back at The Guardian in 2000, Political Editor in 2006, and Diplomatic Editor in 2015.His work has also been featured in The Irish Times and various Yahoo platforms.

Jennie Agg is a freelance health journalist, blogger, and author. She specialises in women’s health and explaining science and medicine so it can be understood by everyone.Agg's work has appeared in The Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the i paper, Red magazine, Women’s Health, Grazia, ELLE UK, the Guardian, and the Observer. She writes the blog The Uterus Monologues. Her first book, "Life, Almost: Miscarriage, Misconceptions, And A Search for Answers from the Brink of Motherhood," was published in 2023.

Bernhard Warner is a writer and journalist. Currently, he is a Senior Editor for The New York Times.Previously, Warner was senior writer and editor at Fortune, focusing on business, the economy and the markets. His work has appeared in The Guardian’s Long Read, Reuters, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, Slate’s The Big Money, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Wired, and Inc. writing on topics ranging from bond issuances to bus bombings to the hacking of the Papal conclave.Warner co-produced two short documentary films, “Maisha,” and “Mahila,”.Warner began his career in journalism in 1990s at The New Brunswick Home News, writing obits and covering the police beat. He later reported on the rise and fall of the first dot-com boom for Adweek and The Industry Standard.

Saba Imtiaz is a journalist, author, journalist, music critic, and screenwriter.Imtiaz started her career as a freelance journalist and column writer. She has worked for The News International, The Express Tribune, The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Christian Science Monitor. Imtiaz's work has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, Marie Claire, Roads and Kingdoms, and on the BBC. Her first book, the novel "Karachi, You're Killing Me!" was published in 2014. She also wrote the script of the romantic comedy "Dekh Magar Pyar Se," which was released in 2015.

Linda Rodriguez McRobbie is a writer and journalist. McRobbie is drawn to unusual stories, such as surprising and unique conditions of memory, stories of alien abduction, DIY DNA labs, junk science laws, the ethics of pet ownership, or invasive species.McRobbie began her journalism career at the City Desk of the Boston Herald. She then moved to the South End News, then to Bay Windows. After moving to London, she became the editor of The Periscope Post. She then left to write a book and work as a freelance journalist.McRobbie's work has appeared in the Boston Globe Ideas section, The Guardian, Atlas Obscura, Slate, Mental Floss, Smithsonian Magazine, The Atlantic, Christian Science Monitor, CNN Money, and US News & World Report. Her first book, "Princesses Behaving Badly," was published in 2013.McRobbie received her B.A. in English with a Minor in Philosophy from Davidson College and her M.S. in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Sam Knight is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the column "A Letter from the UK."Previously, Knight wrote for The Guardian. His work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Grantland, and Harper's. His first book, "The Premonitions Bureau," was published in 2022.

Kris Manjapra is a Professor of History at Tufts University.