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
Recession 2021
It's not that our economies haven't already taken a hit because of the coronavirus, it's that what's coming may be much worse. Politicians, and people in finance and business, can see it, but there a…
00:32:20 |
Thu 22 Oct 2020
Happy - the elephant in the courtroom: episode 3
If animals share many qualities with humans - if they're self-aware, if they communicate, and grieve for their dead, as we know they do - do they deserve human-like rights? Next month, the case of Ha…
00:36:48 |
Sat 17 Oct 2020
Happy - the elephant in the courtroom: episode 2
If animals share many qualities with humans - if they're self-aware, if they communicate, and grieve for their dead, as we know they do - do they deserve human-like rights? Next month, the case of Ha…
00:35:25 |
Fri 16 Oct 2020
Happy - the elephant in the courtroom: episode 1
If animals share many qualities with humans - if they're self-aware, if they communicate, and grieve for their dead, as we know they do - do they deserve human-like rights? Next month, the case of Ha…
00:36:05 |
Thu 15 Oct 2020
Tested: How test and trace became a national disaster
The serial failures of the UK's test and trace system will never be a footnote in the coronavirus crisis. In fact, they're the headline. Matthew d'Ancona reports on how it got so bad.
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00:35:52 |
Thu 08 Oct 2020
The golden egg
The fertility industry is booming, but there is a tightrope to walk between what is possible, ethical and harmful. Reporter Claudia Williams and host Basia Cummings investigate the rise and rise of I…
00:42:24 |
Thu 01 Oct 2020
The endless virus
Coronavirus can kill, or pass through a body unnoticed. Its effects in the short term are wildly unpredictable. But as we learn to live with this new virus we're discovering more of its grisly secret…
00:35:06 |
Wed 23 Sep 2020
Florida: The punchline state
We went to the perennial swing state where Trump won narrowly in 2016. Four years later, is Florida ready to flip again? Will it be an election about Covid and competence, law and order or racial jus…
00:42:15 |
Thu 17 Sep 2020
Inside Evin
Evin Prison is one of the most secretive places on earth; the heart of Iran's oppression of its own people. We've spent months getting inside its walls through the testimony of people who've been det…
00:46:21 |
Thu 10 Sep 2020
Beat police
Drill music styles itself as a tough and uncompromising representation of life in poor communities in cities like Chicago and London. Police forces have clamped down on it in the belief that it provo…
00:23:34 |
Thu 03 Sep 2020
How the world filled a hole - and saved itself
Something which is now almost unimaginable happened between 1974 and 1989. The world spotted a massive problem; the fix required action by consumers, businesses and governments; and they came togethe…
00:25:26 |
Thu 27 Aug 2020
Trailblazer
Michaela Coel's TV drama I May Destroy You has just finished playing on the BBC and HBO. Based partly on her own experience it's an unsettling, sometimes harrowing, examination of sexual assault, con…
00:25:44 |
Thu 20 Aug 2020
The slaver who stayed put
The story of the toppling of Edward Colston's statue in Bristol became a prominent chapter in the global response to the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests. Those events were …
00:31:11 |
Thu 13 Aug 2020
What the RFK Jr?! From Camelot to conspiracies
How a member of the Kennedy political dynasty has become the most prolific super-spreader of conspiracies connecting anti-vaxxers, 5G and coronavirus
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00:36:16 |
Thu 06 Aug 2020
The hopeful Chancellor: is Rishi Sunak the right man for the job?
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is diligent and decent, but is he really the right man for the job of saving the British economy?
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00:28:49 |
Thu 30 Jul 2020
Silenced in China: the price of protest
As president Xi uses the pandemic to crack down again, we speak to Dr Teng Biao and Simon Cheng about their treatment in China's battle to control its people
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00:33:35 |
Thu 23 Jul 2020
"How are you?" Mental health in lockdown
"How are you?" used to be a throwaway question, but the pandemic has given it new meaning. Former spin-doctor Alastair Campbell, now a prominent mental health campaigner, asks high-profile people fro…
00:42:39 |
Thu 16 Jul 2020
Death at the ministry: a very British injustice
Late every evening in London at the Ministry of Justice, dozens of poorly-paid workers slip into the offices to begin their night-time cleaning jobs. Many - maybe most - have recently arrived in the …
00:37:28 |
Thu 09 Jul 2020
Uncommon wealth: money and the British Crown
The royal family's finances are mysterious, and the strange formula which calculates the money they get from the taxpayer is badly understood. Tortoise has been going through the accounts. What they …
00:29:25 |
Thu 02 Jul 2020
Together, with Jurgen Klopp
Like a handful of football managers before him, Jurgen Klopp is fascinating as a leader. His ability to motivate people around him would be exceptional in any occupation, in any circumstances, and th…
00:31:13 |
Thu 25 Jun 2020
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