Long reads

Essays, features and reporting from magazines and papers: The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Aeon, Quanta, the Economist and more.

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33 articles in BBC All.

• The yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan

  BBC · 2026-03-07

• The US island that speaks Elizabethan English

  BBC · 2025-03-11

• JLR whistleblower sacked for publishing concerns about VinFast cars

  BBC · 2024-12-18

• Princess Mononoke: The masterpiece that flummoxed the US - BBC Culture

  BBC · 2022-07-26

• 'How a $10k poker win changed how I think' - BBC Future

  BBC · 2021-09-07

• Untitled (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-46055285)

  BBC · 2021-05-24

  @btbytes The talk about connection reminds me of the story about Korean princess from Ayodhya:

• BBC - Travel - Jackfruit: the ‘vegan sensation’ that saved Sri Lanka

  BBC · 2021-05-19

  Sri Lankans began planting jackfruit trees to gain food self-sufficiency during British rule, and they’ve since helped islanders avoid starvation.

• The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make - BBC Future

  BBC · 2021-03-28

• Untitled (https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23372401)

  BBC · 2021-02-14

  Interesting article on the business of the East India Company in the 18th/19th century. Arguably it was one of the first office-work environments and a good example of an early bureaucracy

• Untitled (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55794071)

  BBC · 2021-02-06

  Imagine if this report was about any other country..

• Untitled (https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22190802)

  BBC · 2020-12-27

  @paulportesi not true it appears:

• Untitled (https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54703204)

  BBC · 2020-12-08

  One of the most interesting developments in the nuclear energy space — Rolls-Royce $RR plans to build small modular reactors (SMR).

• Untitled (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54573831)

  BBC · 2020-10-19

  Thailand protests: 'My father is blinded by his love for the monarchy' - BBC News So the hit pieces have started to arrive. It is happens, this will be a tragedy greater than the fall of the Nepalese monarchy.

• Untitled (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-54464451)

  BBC · 2020-10-09

  Fantastic. My stupid idli comment has now been connected - ever so tenuously - to the US election. For the record: I love Indian food... and especially south Indian food! (Just not idlis).

• BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Paul Dirac

  BBC · 2020-06-22

  @btbytes

• How Britain tried to 'erase' India's third gender - BBC News

  BBC · 2020-06-21

  BBC News - How Britain tried to 'erase' India's third gender

• Slave markets found on Instagram and other apps - BBC News

  BBC · 2019-11-01

• BBC - Travel - Why China is obsessed with numbers

  BBC · 2019-02-12

• BBC - Travel - The Middle East’s travelling storytellers

  BBC · 2018-11-20

• Prehistoric art hints at lost Indian civilisation - BBC News

  BBC · 2018-10-05

• BBC News - Mansion unlocked after 100 years

  BBC · 2011-01-18

• BBC - History - British History in depth: Was the American Revolution Inevitable?

  BBC · 2010-12-13

• BBC News - In graphics: Supercomputing superpowers

  BBC · 2010-05-31

• BBC - BBC Four Documentaries - The Century of the Self

  BBC · 2010-05-18

• BBC NEWS | Health | Untidy beds may keep us healthy

  BBC · 2010-05-14

• BBC News | EUROPE | Nokia boss gets record speeding fine

  BBC · 2010-04-28

• BBC - Radio 4 In Our Time - Home Page

  BBC · 2009-08-11

• BBC Learning English | Grammar and Vocabulary

  BBC · 2008-07-02

• The US sub-prime crisis in graphics

  BBC · 2007-12-18

• 100 things we didn't know last year - 2006 version

  BBC · 2006-12-31

• BBC moves to file-sharing sites

  BBC · 2006-12-21

  Hundreds of episodes of BBC programmes will be made available on a file-sharing network for the first time, the corporation has announced.

• The rise of the 'childfree'

  BBC · 2006-04-04

  Birth rates in the European Union are falling fast.

• 50 things to eat before you die

  BBC · 2006-03-31