Please get better narrators!
The content of these articles is almost always fascinating, but marred by huge inconsistency among the readers/narrators. Some genuinely sound like a schoolchild being made to read out loud; others pronounce words wrongly, and yet others are fantastically nuanced and gripping. I sometimes have to give up listening because the poor narration grates so much and makes it difficult to follow the sense of the article. And sometimes I’m hanging on every word. It feels like pot luck every time? Please, please could we have more of Alice Arnold and others who genuinely seem to understand what they’re reading out (and have researched pronunciations too). You need more than just any old someone who can read words on a page out loud, to make these articles as compelling a listening experience as they deserve to be.
Tooting listener via Apple Podcasts · Great Britain · 03/30/20
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Bravo! Long may long listens last.
PAgina761 via Apple Podcasts · Great Britain · 01/18/20
Really great podcast. I skip the ones read by the woman with the annoying American voice
THOMMY RAAB via Apple Podcasts · Great Britain · 05/31/19
I went off The Guardian in the Rusbridger days but generally all their ouput is great at the moment, Long Read podcasts especially. It's really great being able to listen to/read an indepth aticle focused on a single subject, free of clickbait and discussion for discussion's sake....Read full review »
Thomas Tropane via Apple Podcasts · Great Britain · 01/23/17
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