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 whal...
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Episodes (435)
Foundling
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Can AI write good literature?
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Kill talk: Pete Hegseth and the language of war
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Your best baby
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Rogue Brits: The Orthobros
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Rogue Brits: Fighting for Putin
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Stephen Miller’s America
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“My best pal”: Mandelson and Epstein
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Mismatch: Bumble vs the men’s rights activists
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Russia's shadow war at sea
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The God complex: Part 2
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Archive: Peltz-Beckham: A super-wedding gone wrong
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The God complex: Part 1
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Introducing the new host of the Slow Newscast
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The Walkers: The real Salt Path
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Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene: The MAGA divorce
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Sycamore Gap: felling of a tree
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A reckoning at the Guildhall School of Music
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Archive: Beastly: The stories of David Walliams
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Killing time: Part 2
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Killing time: Part 1
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My boy Gianni Infantino and Trump
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Inside the Treasury
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What's Left?
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Deep Water
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William: The reluctant prince
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Epping: A very English uprising
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Among the settlers on Gaza's border
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Trolled: Brigitte Macron
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The shakedown: Donald Trump vs the media
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Gaza's Deadly Aid
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An uncivil war inside Unite
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Introducing ... We Have Notes
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Contagion: RFK Jr’s war on public health
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The match: My sister and her new DNA
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The immortality bros: the new frontiers of health
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The diva and the dictator: opera at war
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The great British honey scandal
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The mother and the gangs
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Signal failure: Who killed HS2?
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A lonely death on Jersey
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The real Salt Path
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The Lab Detective
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Illiberal land: Hungary’s empire of ideas
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The mystery of Francis Bacon's minder
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Introducing...Drilled
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Liz UnTrussed
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How to disappear
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Brute force: domestic abuse in the ranks
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The Wargame
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