LUCY SHERRIFF
journalist

In the 1920s, India was battling for independence from the British Empire. Against the odds, the country formed a mixed race field hockey team to enter into the Olympics for the first time ever.

They won gold – and became the most successful Olympics team 

Eleven-year-old Victoria has her sights set on playing Little League with the boys. She goes through tryouts and is told to learn to cook. Instead, she changes history.

In the 1940s one government wildlife official came up with a wild plan to deal with nuisances beavers: attaching them to leftover parachutes from World War Two and throwing them out of a postal service aeroplane. 

The craziest thing? It worked.

On April 8, 2024, conservationist Niloufar Bayani was released after spending six years in a notorious Iranian prison. In the preceding months, journalist Lucy Sherriff and The Sunday Long Read team had been working on an account of how she got there and once there, how she survived. This is her story.

Wes Matlock is trying to hold onto a rapidly disappearing way of life. He's a cowboy, in northwest Washington, trying to protect cattle against the encroaching advance of wolves.

An oil refinery accident almost exposed residents in SoCal, to a flesh-eating vapor cloud of modified hydrofluoric acid. It could happen again. Teenage Girl Scout Summer Spencer has a plan to save her neighborhood.