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)
After the Fall – A death on the Lansdowne Estate
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Wagner’s war: A year in Ukraine and beyond
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The prince against the press
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Wronged: a murder and a miscarriage of justice
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Snatched: A mother's quest to find her children
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God on your side: Christians, courts and culture wars
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Real Money - episode 1 of our new investigative series
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Introducing: The News Meeting
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The Westminster Accounts
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Damn and blast off: how not to go back to the moon
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2022 picks - The Darwin job: the mystery of the vanishing notebooks
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2022 picks - Lebedev: Lord of Siberia
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Musking it: Inside Elon’s Twitter takeover
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Octopus: the allegations against Crispin Odey
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The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic
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Inside Unite
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The Alzheimer's casino
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Egypt's bad cop
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Mutiny: The undoing of Liz Truss
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The missing male pill
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Pig Iron
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Britannia unhinged
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Toxic: The making of Andrew Tate
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Paradise Bust: Scandal in the British Virgin Islands
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A crime in the making
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The Second Elizabethan Age: the constitution
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The Second Elizabethan Age: rule Britannia
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The Second Elizabethan Age: head of state
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The Second Elizabethan Age: speak to us ma'am
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The Second Elizabethan Age: strong as a yak
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The Second Elizabethan Age: the coronation
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The Fix
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Thank the Lord
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Myanmar: the forgotten coup
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Hostile environment
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Hunt for the porn king: a reckoning
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Chained woman
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America at the crossroads: abortion in South Bend
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Left to die: Return to the Amarula
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Londongrad: The Johnson Affair
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The Darwin job: the vanishing, reappearing notebooks
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A coup at Claridge’s: Qatar’s quiet move on London
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Hollywood’s cultural revolution
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Visit Rwanda: Britain’s harsh welcome for refugees
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The Rules: democracy in Britain
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Introducing: Londongrad
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Stripped. Searched. Traumatised. Children and the police
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Odesa
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Revealed: Stormy Daniels and her battle for truth
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Downfall: twenty days that did for Rishi Sunak
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