Special Edition: Behind the scenes at the Long Read

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  This is The Guardian.

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  Welcome to The Guardian Long Read,

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  showcasing the best long form journalism covering culture, politics and new thinking.

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  For the text version of this and all our long reads, go to theguardian.com forward slash long read.

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  Hi, I'm David Wolfe, the editor of The Guardian Long Read.

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  Today we're doing something a bit different to celebrate the publication of the new Long Read magazine,

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  which you can order now from TheGuardian.com slash Long Read Mag.

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  The Guardian Long Read Magazine is a collection of ten of our favourite stories from recent years,

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  bound together with beautiful new illustrations and art direction by Chris Clark and Andrew Stocks.

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  Today on the podcast we're taking a behind-the-scenes look at the long read with two of our regular writers whose pieces feature in the new magazine Charlotte Higgins the Guardians chief culture writer and author of a piece about what's gone wrong at the British Museum Hello and Hetty O'Brien assistant opinion editor and author of a story about a lawyer who posed as a gentleman and turned out to be anything but Hello and welcome to the podcast guys.

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  Thank you.

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  Very happy to be here.

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  Okay, so Let's talk a bit about your pieces and pieces in general.

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  Both of you have been writing for the section for many years now.

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  Charlotte, when was your first one?

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  2016, 2015.

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  I was one of the first.

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  In fact, I was the harbinger of the long race.

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  Yeah.

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  Oh, yes.

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