In this week\u2019s newsletter: A serial killer strikes the seaside town in The Margate Murders. Plus: in celebration of its 10th anniversary, five of the best Guardian audio long reads<\/p>\n
\u2022 Don\u2019t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n This autumn marks 10 years since we launched the Guardian long read<\/a>. Looking back now, it is hard to remember how counterintuitive the idea seemed at the time \u2013 this was a moment when more and more people were wondering whether readers still had the appetite for anything longer than a few hundred words, or even 140 characters. Creating a dedicated space within the Guardian for multiple pieces of 5,000 (or more) words a week \u2013 many of which would take months, even years, to produce \u2013 seemed like a quixotic project. Thankfully, our readers felt otherwise, embracing our deeply researched stories about everything from the \u201ccruel, paranoid, failing\u201d Home Office<\/a> and the battle against Islamic State<\/a> to the strange world of competitive ploughing<\/a> and the rise of hygge<\/a>.<\/p>\n Just a few months after the long read launched, our audio team had the brilliant idea of launching the audio long read podcast<\/a>. The idea was simple: get a great voice actor to read the articles aloud. That was it. It turned out that listeners loved it. (A few years ago, I briefly met Ed Miliband, who told me he liked to listen to the podcast when swimming lengths in the pool.)<\/p>\n