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

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Trump in Bethlehem

This week we're in Pennsylvania, where Trump won in 2016. Can he win here again?

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00:33:26 | Thu 06 Feb 2020

The world inside

The new frontier of medical science is closer than you think – much closer. It lies within us, in the bacteria and viruses of the gut, and in the mysterious efficacy of faecal transplants.

There’s so …

00:28:49 | Sat 01 Feb 2020

Coronavirus: is this the one?

One day, the next catastrophic global epidemic will strike. Scientists already know a few things about it: it will probably have crossed the species barrier from animal to human; it’s likely to origi…

00:24:31 | Thu 30 Jan 2020

Three women, homeless

We'd like you to meet Toni, Sharon and Nicky. You may have passed them on the street - somebody who listens to this podcast almost certainly will have done. But you won't have met them, any more than…

00:53:18 | Mon 27 Jan 2020

Labour's North Star

The Labour Party in the UK is choosing a new leader. Few people care - after a crushing election defeat, the party has got work to do to make itself interesting again. It's a gloomy picture for Labou…

00:22:50 | Thu 23 Jan 2020

The man who counts trees

Tom Crowther is a young ecologist who asked a simple question: how many trees are there on planet earth? The answer has changed our understanding of the world, but Crowther's work has provoked a fire…

00:23:08 | Thu 16 Jan 2020

The new superpowers: Apple

For months, Tortoise has been investigating big tech companies as if they were countries: holding them to the same standards that we apply to nation states; caring about what they think; understandin…

00:25:30 | Thu 09 Jan 2020

Labour: anatomy of a catastrophe

Since the general election was called, one of Britain's foremost political journalists has been tracking the Labour campaign for Tortoise. Here's his story of tension and bad choices inside the party…

00:23:40 | Fri 13 Dec 2019

Nameless, stateless: N3

To find out more about Tortoise go to tortoisemedia.com/friend and use the code POD50 to become a member for just £1 a week, half our normal price.

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00:26:38 | Sat 07 Dec 2019

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