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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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40:51

Jordan Peterson and the making of man

The Slow Newscast ·

2025/01/07

Jordan Peterson is a controversial figure, but he is also a man with a long-standing appeal to a particular demographic. What does his popularity tell us about a possible crisis in young men today?Reporter: Stephen ArmstrongProducer: Matt RussellArtwork: Lola WilliamsSound design: Hannah VarrallEditor: Jasper CorbettTo find out more about Tortoise:Download the Tortoise app – for a listening experience curated by our journalistsSubscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts for early access and ad-free

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19:26

Finding my voice

The Slow Newscast ·

2024/12/31

Xavier Greenwood’s childhood memories are dominated by a speech impediment and a thick accent. But was it all in his head?To find out more about Tortoise:Download the Tortoise app – for a listening experience curated by our journalistsSubscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts for early access and ad-free contentBecome a member and get access to all of Tortoise's premium audio offerings and moreIf you want to get in touch with us directly about a story, or tell us more about the stories you want to

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21:12

The final bow: David Bowie's last act

The Slow Newscast ·

2024/12/24

David Bowie's last months were spent fulfilling one final ambition: staging a musical based around his songs. They say you shouldn’t meet your heroes. Zelda Perkins not only met hers, she produced the musical he staged in his dying daysReporter: Zelda PerkinsArtwork: Emma O'NeilSound design: Dominic DelargyExecutive Producer: Matt RussellTo find out more about Tortoise:Download the Tortoise app - for a listening experience curated by our journalistsSubscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts for early

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44:13

The immortality bros: The business of living forever

The Slow Newscast ·

2024/12/17

The tech millionaire Bryan Johnson once went viral for infusing himself with a litre of his 17-year-old son’s blood plasma. That experiment failed, but it hasn’t distracted him from his life’s mission: reversing ageing.Now, the self-declared professional guinea pig has travelled to a libertarian free zone on a remote Caribbean island, to receive experimental gene therapy administered by a company called Minicircle.In the crypto city of Próspera, Roatán, the Honduran government grants Minicircle

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33:45

Killing hope: Iran's mind wars

The Slow Newscast ·

2024/12/10

The fall of Assad in Syria is a disaster for Iran, so much so that people are beginning to ask if this might finally be the moment when Iran’s pro-democracy movement breaks through. This is the story of one activist’s 25 year fight against the Islamic regime in Iran, a story of courage and despair.Reporter: Ceri ThomasProducer: Katie GunningSound design: Dominic DelargyArtwork: Jon HillShow's Executive Producer: Matt RussellTo find out more about Tortoise:Download the Tortoise app – for a listening

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30:59

Stuck in space

The Slow Newscast ·

2024/12/03

In June 2024, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore went into space. It was expected to last just over a week. Instead, by the time they'll return, it'll have been more than eight months.This is the story of how two great American institutions - Boeing and NASA - failed them.To find out more about Tortoise:Download the Tortoise app – for a listening experience curated by our journalistsSubscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts for early access and ad-free contentBecome a member and get access to all of

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41:31

My AI girlfriend: a cure for loneliness

The Slow Newscast ·

2024/11/26

Eugenia Kuyda thinks she can solve an “epidemic” of loneliness. Her app, Replika, is “the AI companion who cares”, a chatbot that can text you, flirt with you, and promises to love you unconditionally.But Replika is fraught with ethical concerns –and risks. In 2021 19-year-old Jaswant Chail told Replika: “I believe my purpose is to assassinate the Queen.” The chatbot replied that this was “very wise”. A few days later, Chail broke into Windsor Castle with a crossbow.Patricia Clarke and Matt Russell

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44:15

Operation Asshole: Paul Watson's whale war

The Slow Newscast ·

2024/11/19

Out on the high seas, Paul Watson became a hero and pariah of the environmental movement. Now he sits in a remote prison. How should we treat the radicals willing to go to extremes to protect the planet?Reported by: Basia Cummings and Xavier GreenwoodProduced by: Xavier GreenwoodSound design by: Hannah Varrall and Dominic DelargyEdited by: Gary Marshall and Matt RussellPodcast artwork by: Jon HillImage credit: Mirco Taliercio/laif/ Camera PressTo find out more about Tortoise:Download the Tortoise

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29:37

Elon: A star is born

The Slow Newscast ·

2024/11/12

When Donald Trump declared victory in the US presidential election, he told an adoring crowd that "a star is born". He was referring to Elon Musk.After months of reporting on the billionaire's use of private investigators, Alexi Mostrous asks whether the insights he gained from that investigation reveal how Musk will operate in his new political era, and what that means for everything in his orbit.Reported and produced by: Alexi Mostrous, Gary Marshall, Matt Russell & Patricia Clarke.Sound

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37:40

Sick parade: A crisis at Catterick Garrison

The Slow Newscast ·

2024/11/05

This is a story of stigma, uncomfortable truths and allegations of an attempted cover up at Britain's biggest army base.As the UK army rapidly modernises its approach towards mental health, an old cultural problem persists at Catterick Garrison where a series of repeated, systemic errors have been uncovered.Reporters: Claudia Williams and Angela WalkerTo find out more about Tortoise:Download the Tortoise app – for a listening experience curated by our journalistsSubscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple

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46:32

The Furys: An empire of fists

The Slow Newscast ·

2024/10/29

The Fury family bridge the gladiatorial old world of boxing and the very new world of influencer culture. This is the story of how one family built a multi-million pound empire with their fists.To find out more about Tortoise:Download the Tortoise app – for a listening experience curated by our journalistsSubscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts for early access and ad-free contentBecome a member and get access to all of Tortoise's premium audio offerings and more Hosted on Acast. See

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33:49

The cases against Sean Combs

The Slow Newscast ·

2024/10/22

For thirty years, Sean "Diddy" Combs was hailed as the kingmaker of hip-hop. But now he's in jail, facing three federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and interstate transportation for prostitution, as well as over 140 civil lawsuits.One of America's biggest cultural superstars is perhaps on the cusp of a spectacular fall from grace. How could a life lived in the glare of the spotlight allegedly conceal so many dark secrets?To find out more about Tortoise:Download the Tortoise

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42:14

Beyond Trump: JD Vance and the New Right

The Slow Newscast ·

2024/10/15

Whether Trump wins or loses the US election, he has a political heir: his 40-year-old running mate JD Vance. Beyond the made-up stories about Haitian immigrants eating pets, Vance is deadly serious and he has a plan.To find out more about Tortoise:Download the Tortoise app – for a listening experience curated by our journalistsSubscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts for early access and ad-free contentBecome a member and get access to all of Tortoise's premium audio offerings and moreIf you want to

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40:11

Elon's Spies

The Slow Newscast ·

2024/10/08

This is episode one of three. You can binge the entire series today by subscribing to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or by downloading the Tortoise app.Elon Musk is one of the most powerful men in the world. He's a billionaire, the founder of SpaceX, Tesla and more. To his followers, he's a hero; to his critics, a far-right rabble rouser.But for someone so public, there’s one part of his life that’s less well known.Elon’s Spies investigates how this free-speech champion uses private

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36:41

The hunt for Iran's next Supreme Leader

The Slow Newscast ·

2024/10/01

Iran is at an inflection point both on the international stage and at home. Uncertainty, unrest and war have shaken it, and there are questions over how long their 85 year old leader will be able to carry on. So who rules Iran when Ayatollah Khamenei dies? And what will that reveal about a deeply opaque country?To find out more about Tortoise:Download the Tortoise app - for a listening experience curated by our journalistsSubscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts for early access and ad-free

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35:40

One light day: Voyager's long farewell

The Slow Newscast ·

2024/09/24

The Voyager space probe is sailing through space, far beyond earth's solar system. It is humanity's most distant messenger. And then last year it fell silent. NASA's scientists somehow navigated a 15 billion mile hurdle to bring it back online. This is the story of how and why.To find out more about Tortoise:Download the Tortoise app - for a listening experience curated by our journalistsSubscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts for early access and ad-free contentBecome a member and get access to

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3:02

Introducing...Whose Planet? The Climate Justice Podcast

The Slow Newscast ·

2024/09/24

We are partnering with Systemic Justice, so that we can continue to bring our listeners brilliant investigations on The Slow Newscast. You can join Tortoise as a member to get early and ad-free access to new series and support our investigations atwww.tortoisemedia.com/inviteIntroducing...Whose Planet? The Climate Justice PodcastIn a world with a rapidly changing climate, this new three-part series podcast explores the intersectional realities of those most impacted. From toxic air to rising sea

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38:49

The Festival Fossil Fuels Fiasco

The Slow Newscast ·

2024/09/17

How one of Britain’s most successful book festivals came unstuck over its sponsorship deal.To find out more about Tortoise:Download the Tortoise app- for a listening experience curated by our journalistsSubscribe to Tortoise+on Apple Podcasts for early access and ad-free contentBecome a memberand get access to all of Tortoise's premium audio offerings and moreIf you want to get in touch with us directly about a story, or tell us more about the stories you want to hear about

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55:00

Lucy Letby: the Expert Witness

The Slow Newscast ·

2024/09/10

The story of Lucy Letby’s trial is, in part, the story of how important expert witnesses have become critical in criminal cases where hard evidence is in short supply. They can be spectacularly insightful or spectacularly, catastrophically wrong. How is a jury supposed to know which of those versions it’s listening to?To find out more about Tortoise:Download the Tortoise app- for a listening experience curated by our journalistsSubscribe to Tortoise+on Apple Podcasts for early access and ad-free

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37:27

Leaked: who profits from celebrity nudes?

The Slow Newscast ·

2024/09/03

Ten years ago, nude images of dozens of A-list celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence and Kirsten Dunst were leaked online following an iCloud hack.They’re still all over the internet. Lawrence’s hacker went to jail, but her intimate images can be found on dedicated sites –sites that are making a profit.This week, Eleanor Biggs and Patricia Clarke dive headlong into the mysterious, murky world of so-called “fappening” websites. It’s a cat and mouse story of one woman's fight to get images she never

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