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)
Silenced in China: the price of protest
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"How are you?" Mental health in lockdown
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Death at the ministry: a very British injustice
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Uncommon wealth: money and the British Crown
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Together, with Jurgen Klopp
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The sick man: Boris Johnson, Britain and the virus
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Black Lives Matter 2020
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Inside Amazon: a superpower in a pandemic
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What if they don't turn up?
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Cash and caring: the business of care homes
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The jobs tightrope
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Undercrowded and overfunded: the Nightingale hospitals
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Coronavirus in Africa: the final straw?
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No weddings and fourteen funerals
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Covid-19: The 5G conspiracy
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The zoo-keeper: surviving coronavirus
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Coronaviolence: domestic abuse in a lockdown
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Lives on the line: why is coronavirus killing so many health workers?
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How pandemics end
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The rules: can we fix our broken politics?
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A college with secrets
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My mother's murder - episode 4: The last domino
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My mother's murder - episode 3: Truth to power
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My mother's murder - episode 2: An assassination foretold
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My mother's murder - episode 1
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Trump in Bethlehem
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The world inside
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Coronavirus: is this the one?
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Three women, homeless
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Labour's North Star
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The man who counts trees
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The new superpowers: Apple
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Labour: anatomy of a catastrophe
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Nameless, stateless: N3
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Murder in Malta
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The PRince disaster
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Techno Tories
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It’s Your Identity, Stupid
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