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The Slow Newscast

The Slow Newscast from The Observer takes the news slowly. We investigate, and every week we focus on stories that really matter in the UK and around the world. From wars in Ukraine and Gaza through to true crime and injustice and real life mysteries, The Slow Newscast team is devoted to narrative investigations covering some of the biggest topics of the day.Who are the people biohacking themselves in a quest for immortality? Or the man taking on an entire nation in the high seas to protect whales

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54:46

The prince against the press

The Slow Newscast ·

2023/02/14

The Harry show – the bestselling memoir, the Netflix documentary, the rounds of television interviews – isn’t over. In fact, it’s only just begun: the prince’s legal claims against Britain’s biggest media groups are headed to court this summerTortoise is a news start-up devoted to slow journalism. To access more of our journalism and get invites to exclusive events you can join Tortoise as a member.Visit www.tortoisemedia.com/friend and use the code Slow60 for a special offer today. Hosted on Acast

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47:26

Wronged: a murder and a miscarriage of justice

The Slow Newscast ·

2023/02/07

Following a brutal killing in north London in 2016, two innocent men, Patryk and Grzegorz, who had just arrived from Poland, were handed a life sentence for a murder they didn’t commit. This is the story of a remarkable miscarriage of justice, and a feeble effort by the law to correct itself.Tortoise is a news start-up devoted to slow journalism. To access more of our journalism and get invites to exclusive events you can join Tortoise as a member.Visit www.tortoisemedia.com/friend and use the code

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47:43

Snatched: A mother's quest to find her children

The Slow Newscast ·

2023/01/31

What do you do when your children are taken away by your ex-partner? Who do you call for help? And how do you get them back?Tortoise is a news start-up devoted to slow journalism. To access more of our journalism and get invites to exclusive events you can join Tortoise as a member.Visit www.tortoisemedia.com/friend and use the code Slow60 for a special offer today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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43:11

God on your side: Christians, courts and culture wars

The Slow Newscast ·

2023/01/24

The Christian Legal Centre is behind some of the most tragic cases in the British courts helping parents fight against hospitals in life support cases. Who are they – and what do they want?Tortoise is a news start-up devoted to slow journalism. To access more of our journalism and get invites to exclusive events you can join Tortoise as a member.Visit www.tortoisemedia.com/friend and use the code Slow60 for a special offer today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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37:36

Real Money - episode 1 of our new investigative series

The Slow Newscast ·

2023/01/17

Introducing: 'Real Money: The hunt for Tether's billions'. To listen to episode two of the series, click this link.The dream of cryptocurrencies is in danger of imploding along with their value. If the crypto coin that supports the whole market goes under it could drag the entire system down with it. That coin is called Tether. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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9:00

Introducing: The News Meeting

The Slow Newscast ·

2023/01/13

Introducing...The News Meeting from Podimo and Tortoise. In every newsroom around the world there’s a daily meeting to decide what leads the news, what follows and in what order. As editor of The Times newspaper, director of BBC News and now editor-in-chief of Tortoise, James Harding has been in countless news meetings behind closed doors. But in this podcast, we’re flinging the doors open so you can hear the argument for yourself. Three journalists pitch the story they think mattered most this week

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41:43

The Westminster Accounts

The Slow Newscast ·

2023/01/09

Over £183 million of outside funds has flowed into this parliament alone, with no way of fully understanding who’s getting what, from whom, and why. Until now. This is the story of the money flowing into our politics, hidden in plain sight.To explore The Westminster Accounts tool click on this link. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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37:49

Damn and blast off: how not to go back to the moon

The Slow Newscast ·

2023/01/03

Nasa wants to put people back on the moon, half a century after Apollo 11. Its Artemis moon mission is over-budget, overhyped and underpowered –it might even be the end of Nasa as we know it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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43:45

2022 picks - The Darwin job: the mystery of the...

The Slow Newscast ·

2022/12/29

One sleuth, two notebooks – and a 20-year puzzle Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:02:36

2022 picks - Lebedev: Lord of Siberia

The Slow Newscast ·

2022/12/22

Door after door in Britain has been opened for Evgeny Lebedev, all the way to the House of Lords. Who has opened them, and why?To listen to the 'Londongrad' series follow this link. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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31:19

Musking it: Inside Elon’s Twitter takeover

The Slow Newscast ·

2022/12/15

The inside story of a troubled company that was bought by the world’s richest man. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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48:43

Octopus: the allegations against Crispin Odey

The Slow Newscast ·

2022/12/05

One of Britain’s richest and most powerful men was cleared of sexual assault last year. Four more women have now come forward with similar allegations that Crispin Odey, a major donor to the Conservative party, sexually assaulted them. Other women allege that he sexually harassed them at the offices of his Mayfair hedge fund company. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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40:19

The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic

The Slow Newscast ·

2022/12/01

Introducing – The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic. In a few months, the Tavistock – the only NHS clinic in England and Wales which treats children suffering from gender dysphoria – will close. This is the story of what happened.This is episode 1 of our new investigative series. To listen to episode 2 today, search The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic or click here:https://podfollow.com/the-tavistock-inside-the-gender-clinicand follow the feed for future episodesYou can listen to the first

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58:01

Inside Unite

The Slow Newscast ·

2022/11/24

One of Britain’s biggest trade unions has built a hotel in Birmingham at vast cost. Following the threads which explain why it became so wildly expensive leads inevitably to a surprising place: to Liverpool. And to questions which could hurt the Labour party. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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41:16

The Alzheimer's casino

The Slow Newscast ·

2022/11/17

Big money and bad science: what happens when science and medical research meet Wall Street? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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39:06

Egypt's bad cop

The Slow Newscast ·

2022/11/10

The story of one man, fighting to his last breath, to reveal the darkness that lies behind this year’s UN Climate Change Conference. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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38:58

Mutiny: The undoing of Liz Truss

The Slow Newscast ·

2022/11/03

The inside story of how the shortest premiership in British history came to an end Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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42:52

The missing male pill

The Slow Newscast ·

2022/10/27

More than 60 years after the development of the contraceptive pill for women, we still don’t have an equivalent for men. Why? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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35:46

Pig Iron

The Slow Newscast ·

2022/10/20

Introducing Pig Iron: five years after his death on a distant frontline in South Sudan, the truth about what happened to Christopher Allen is still a mystery. Was he a reckless freelancer? A mercenary? Or a young and ambitious reporter, caught in the crossfire? Approached by a family member looking for answers, Basia Cummings begins investigating.This is the first episode in the six part series 'Pig Iron'. To listen to the remaining episodes as they drop weekly, click on this link:

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36:06

Britannia unhinged

The Slow Newscast ·

2022/10/13

What happened in the 17 days between Kwasi Kwarteng becoming chancellor, sacking the Treasury’s top civil servant, and his fiscal event which crashed the British economy? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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