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? And what happened when humanity's most distant messenger fell silent? From a newsroom with a different approach to journalism these are the stories we tell.
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- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 353
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Inside Unite
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
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 mercenar…
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
Richard Lambert talks to one of the UK’s foremost constitutional experts about the state of the monarchy.
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The Second Elizabethan Age: rule Britannia
Richard Lambert examines how the Queen navigated the world of international politics as head of state and head of the Commonwealth.
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The Second Elizabethan Age: head of state
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The Second Elizabethan Age: speak to us ma'am
When the Queen came to the throne the media was deferential to the 27-year-old monarch and her family. But in the 1960s that began to change. Richard Lambert maps the sometimes fractious relationship…
The Second Elizabethan Age: strong as a yak
Richard Lambert assesses the Queen's strengths and weaknesses as a monarch.
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The Second Elizabethan Age: the coronation
Richard Lambert recalls the excitement at the start of the second Elizabethan age. In 1953 Britain was a deferential society and adulation of the Queen was the order of the day.
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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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