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The Slow Newscast - Podcast

The Slow Newscast

 Alice Sandelson

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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If you want to get in touch with us directly about a story, or tell us more about the stories you want to hear about contact [email protected]

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Documentary Society & Culture News News Commentary
Update frequency
every 5 days
Average duration
38 minutes
Episodes
353
Years Active
2019 - 2025
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Nazanin: trapped in Whitehall

Nazanin: trapped in Whitehall

Since 2016, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been held hostage in Iran. Ceri Thomas investigates how a long-forgotten debt could be the real reason behind her incarceration.

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00:40:33  |   Thu 11 Nov 2021
Shamsa, the forgotten princess

Shamsa, the forgotten princess

The reputation of Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai has been tarnished beyond repair by the way he treated his wife Haya and daughter Latifa. At least we know about what they went through. There's another dau…
00:42:23  |   Thu 04 Nov 2021
Introducing: Sweet Bobby

Introducing: Sweet Bobby

Sweet Bobby is a new series by Tortoise. Kirat is a successful local radio presenter. Online she’s contacted by a man she vaguely knows called Bobby, and they start chatting. Slowly, they become clos…
00:32:10  |   Thu 28 Oct 2021
True crime: the tragedy of Gabby Petito

True crime: the tragedy of Gabby Petito

When a young woman travelling across the US disappeared, an army of digital detectives and citizen journalists jumped on the case. When she was found murdered, they went into overdrive. In this week’…
00:39:13  |   Thu 21 Oct 2021
Havana Syndrome: the mystery illness spreading through America's embassies

Havana Syndrome: the mystery illness spreading through America's embassies

It started with a high-pitched noise. Then, American diplomats started getting sick. Nausea, dizziness, confusion. Across the world, this strange syndrome is spreading. Is it an attack? A sophisticat…
00:40:35  |   Thu 14 Oct 2021
From Russia with diamonds: part 2

From Russia with diamonds: part 2

More than 20 years after emptying the Russian state treasure of hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of diamonds and gold, Andrei Kozlenok breaks his silence with an even more extraordinary tale. B…
00:30:47  |   Thu 07 Oct 2021
From Russia with diamonds: part 1

From Russia with diamonds: part 1

When Communism collapsed, a young man was tasked with selling Russia’s diamonds to the highest bidder. Then, he went on the run with $600m. He was missing for more than 20 years, until reporter Giles…
00:31:07  |   Thu 07 Oct 2021
Pfizer's war

Pfizer's war

It’s been said often enough: the pandemic has been like a war. Economically, on civil liberties and the deaths it has caused, it’s hard to find a better comparison. And just like a war it places resp…
00:36:40  |   Thu 30 Sep 2021
Wrong turn: murder and miscarriage of justice

Wrong turn: murder and miscarriage of justice

Plenty of people take wrong turns in their lives. But so too can justice systems. John Crilly and hundreds more have been the victims of the legal doctrine of Joint Enterprise and how it has been app…
00:49:40  |   Thu 23 Sep 2021
Beau and Biden: Constant companions

Beau and Biden: Constant companions

Joe Biden’s life has been marked by grief, most recently at the death of his beloved son, Beau. And Beau Biden’s legacy isn’t only personal, it’s political, too. 

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00:31:37  |   Thu 16 Sep 2021
Orphaned by America

Orphaned by America

In Donald Trump's America, thousands of children who crossed the border from Mexico were separated from their parents. It's now clear that some of those families - perhaps hundreds - may never be reu…
00:47:39  |   Thu 09 Sep 2021
Smear: cartels and conspiracies in Oldham

Smear: cartels and conspiracies in Oldham

A year ago, journalist Joshi Herrmann got an anonymous tip. It sent him to a website claiming to have evidence of serious corruption, grooming gangs and “cartels” operating in Oldham. From there, Jos…
00:53:42  |   Thu 02 Sep 2021
Son of Afghanistan

Son of Afghanistan

The remarkable story of Rohullah Yakobi, a daring escape, and a 20-year war.

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01:01:57  |   Thu 26 Aug 2021
Popbitch: the power of gossip

Popbitch: the power of gossip

Over 20 years, a simple email newsletter has reshaped celebrity culture. In a special edition of the Slow Newscast, Claudia Williams tells the story of Popbitch.

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00:36:19  |   Thu 19 Aug 2021
Boycott! The lost Olympics

Boycott! The lost Olympics

With human rights groups demanding a diplomatic boycott of next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing, we look back to Moscow 1980, and ask what’s the lesson of the most notorious Olympic boycott in mode…
00:44:29  |   Thu 29 Jul 2021
The porn headmaster

The porn headmaster

In the internet age, anyone with a camera can make and sell porn. But what happens when a shoot goes wrong? In the second episode in our Porn Planet series investigating online pornography, we look i…
00:42:30  |   Thu 22 Jul 2021
Genesis: The mystery of where Covid began

Genesis: The mystery of where Covid began

The truth of an origin story has never mattered more: did Covid cross to humans from an animal, or did it escape from a laboratory? The arguments have only grown fiercer. And in the fog of war, the W…
00:51:58  |   Thu 15 Jul 2021
The arms race

The arms race

How the richest nations on the planet promised to vaccinate every adult, everywhere, against Covid. They failed.

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00:48:20  |   Thu 08 Jul 2021
DIY justice

DIY justice

This is a story about one student, one case, and a serious sexual assault. It takes place at Cambridge University, but the case – of a botched process that lets a young woman down – could have happen…
00:27:22  |   Wed 30 Jun 2021
Left to die - episode 3

Left to die - episode 3

In the final episode of Left to die: Nick Alexander tells the story of his torturous escape from the convoy – and the question left lying in the dust of the attack: who, really, abandoned them all?

H…

00:34:36  |   Wed 23 Jun 2021
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