Three times a week, The Audio Long Read podcast brings you the Guardian’s exceptional longform journalism in audio form. Covering topics from politics and culture to philosophy and sport, as well as ...

Why do most Americans pronounce their “r”s while many in England, Australia, and New Zealand do not? The answer is a transatlantic story of timing and prestige ...

Speaker Two: That's the letter t. It makes the t sound. Speaker One: t, t, tiger. Aahh! Speaker Two: t, t, tractor. Speaker One: That's the letter p. It makes the p ...

To help with reading and writing new words, you need to be able to recognise the graphemes and know which sounds they represent. Some sounds have more than one grapheme. Have a go at this tap and find ...