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
Boris Johnson: The six million pound man episode 2
This is the story of a politician incapable of living within his means but talented beyond measure at finding people to help him live beyond them. It’s the story of how that dependence on others sull…
Boris Johnson: The six million pound man episode 1
This is the story of a politician incapable of living within his means but talented beyond measure at finding people to help him live beyond them. It’s the story of how that dependence on others sull…
Peltz-Beckham: A super-wedding gone wrong
Eight months after his daughter’s wedding to Brooklyn Beckham, billionaire Nelson Peltz filed a lawsuit against two wedding planners demanding a refund. So what happens when you treat a wedding like …
Detained in Modi’s India: A British citizen’s story
For five years a British citizen has been locked up in an Indian prison, and the British state hasn’t been willing – or not strong enough – to stand up for him
Tortoise is a news start-up devoted to s…
Rupert Murdoch: News vs the truth
What happened inside Fox News in those critical weeks following Donald Trump’s election defeat in 2020?
Tortoise is a news start-up devoted to slow journalism. To access more of our journalism and get…
After the Fall – A death on the Lansdowne Estate
Warning: This episode describes domestic abuse and a death by falling.
When a woman falls out of a window, on an estate that’s been abandoned by the council, how do you find out what really happened? …
Wagner’s war: A year in Ukraine and beyond
First they were known as the “little green men”, an anonymous private Russian force appearing first in Crimea, then Syria, then in central Africa. Now, they are on the frontline of Putin’s war in Ukr…
The prince against the press
The Harry show – the bestselling memoir, the Netflix documentary, the rounds of television interviews – isn’t over. In fact, it’s only just begun: the prince’s legal claims against Britain’s biggest …
Wronged: a murder and a miscarriage of justice
Following a brutal killing in north London in 2016, two innocent men, Patryk and Grzegorz, who had just arrived from Poland, were handed a life sentence for a murder they didn’t commit. This is the s…
Snatched: A mother's quest to find her children
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God on your side: Christians, courts and culture wars
The Christian Legal Centre is behind some of the most tragic cases in the British courts helping parents fight against hospitals in life support cases. Who are they – and what do they want?
Tortoise i…
Real Money - episode 1 of our new investigative series
Introducing: 'Real Money: The hunt for Tether's billions'. To listen to episode two of the series, click this link.
The dream of cryptocurrencies is in danger of imploding along with their value. If t…
Introducing: The News Meeting
Introducing...The News Meeting from Podimo and Tortoise.
In every newsroom around the world there’s a daily meeting to decide what leads the news, what follows and in what order. As editor of The Tim…
The Westminster Accounts
Over £183 million of outside funds has flowed into this parliament alone, with no way of fully understanding who’s getting what, from whom, and why. Until now. This is the story of the money flowing …
Damn and blast off: how not to go back to the moon
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2022 picks - The Darwin job: the mystery of the vanishing notebooks
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2022 picks - Lebedev: Lord of Siberia
Door after door in Britain has been opened for Evgeny Lebedev, all the way to the House of Lords. Who has opened them, and why?
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Musking it: Inside Elon’s Twitter takeover
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Octopus: the allegations against Crispin Odey
The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic
Introducing – The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic.
In a few months, the Tavistock – the only NHS clinic in England and Wales which treats children suffering from gender dysphoria – will close. Th…