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# 7 deadly reads

This week
16th February 2025 - 21st February 2025
Sitdown Sunday: A couple waited years to get into Disneyland's secret club - then they got kicked out
Last week
9th February 2025 - 15th February 2025
Sitdown Sunday: Deep - the project aiming to have humans living under the sea by 2027
This month
February 2025
Sitdown Sunday: The new luddites - meet the young people who are shunning social media
Last month
January 2025
Sitdown Sunday: The things you see as a fly-on-the-wall in a 24-hour diner in New York
Sitdown Sunday: The allegations against Neil Gaiman
Sitdown Sunday: A mole infiltrated two US right-wing militia groups - this is what he found
Sitdown Sunday: How the West tracked down a network of Russian sleeper agents
Last year
2024
Sitdown Sunday: The best longreads of the year
Sitdown Santa: How 'It's a Wonderful Life' became a Christmas classic
Sitdown Sunday: On the hunt for Vincent van Gogh's lost masterpiece
Sitdown Sunday: Walk on air against your better judgement - what Seamus Heaney gave me
Sitdown Sunday: 'Many of you could be where we are' - a writer's account of being homeless in the US
Sitdown Sunday: Remembering the world's first ever cyber cafe
Sitdown Sunday: How the Irish Came to Rule Pop Culture
Sitdown Sunday: The rise and danger of AI therapy bots
Sitdown Sunday: The Englishman behind the discovery of €185 million worth of shipwreck cargo
Sitdown Sunday: The therapy that gives names and faces to voices heard by psychosis patients
Sitdown Sunday: 'I'll never stop touring' - Stevie Nicks on her career and why Fleetwood Mac is done
Sitdown Sunday: How an amateur art sleuth cracked a 43-year cold case
Sitdown Sunday: The imprisoned Saudi Arabian princesses and the doctor who tried to free them
Sitdown Sunday: The joy (and soft power) of Irish butter
Sitdown Sunday: 'If they find her, they will kill her' - the priest helping women escape the Mafia
Sitdown Sunday: The TV producers who created Donald Trump's persona
Sitdown Sunday: The nine-hour Prince documentary that might never be released
Sitdown Sunday: The heiress who let strangers give away her inheritance
Sitdown Sunday: How do you solve a problem like Pablo Escobar's hippos?
Sitdown Sunday: Would you pay to be left alone on a desert island?
Sitdown Sunday: Inside the Texas crime lab that's solved hundreds of cold cases
Sitdown Sunday: The Succession-style legal battle for the Murdoch empire
Sitdown Sunday: The woman who fell 14,000 feet to the ground and survived
Sitdown Sunday: A double murder in paradise - who killed the Hollywood expats?
Sitdown Sunday: A Bitcoin mine moved to a small Texas town. Then people started getting sick
Sitdown Sunday: Why Robert F Kennedy Jr's family don't want him to be US president
Sitdown Sunday: Would you clone your dog?
Sitdown Sunday: Blackmail, a double murder and the downfall of the heir to a car dealership empire
Sitdown Sunday: A year after the Titan sub disaster, leaked details show the failings that caused it
Sitdown Sunday: 'He killed a monster' - how a murder in Minnesota divided a community
Sitdown Sunday: The archivists piecing together millions of documents destroyed by the Stasi
Sitdown Sunday: Why are orcas targetting sailboats off the coast of Spain and Portugal?
Sitdown Sunday: How 67 letters found hidden in a wall uncovered a scandal in 1920s Baltimore