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 whal...
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Episodes (435)
What made Syrians fight for revolution?
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“I will never judge you”: A grandmother’s promise
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The teacher, the school, and the myth of the 'Lucky Boy'
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Paolo Zampolli: Trump’s matchmaker
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Why is electroconvulsive therapy still used?
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My father, the vampire hunter
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What does a mass shooter’s chatbot history reveal?
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Ctrl Alt Restore
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What next for Reform and Nigel Farage?
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The Mandelson files
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Is mountaineering getting more dangerous?
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Hard knocks: the cost of courage
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Who owns our water?
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One-star review: A stolen year
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Bankrolling Farage: Who Funds Reform? Episode two: The Money Men
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Bankrolling Farage: Who Funds Reform? Episode one: The Missing Millions
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Have England failed again?
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Fire on the mountain: Mistaken identity
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Who is the man behind Syria's war crimes dossier?
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We call her Emma
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After 250 years is America at a crossroads?
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Wasteland: the rubbish gangs
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Are heatwaves the new norm?
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The Burnham Identity
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Frank Cottrell Boyce on modern childhood
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Pepped-up: the secret world of peptides
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K2: Killer Mountain
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Online grooming: a mother's story
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The Henry Nowak case
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On trial: oil and war crimes
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Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark: What does the future of AI look like?
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'Social media is killing our kids'
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How might Labour's new leaders grow the UK?
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Doped Up!
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Nigel Farage and the five million pound gift: what's wrong with that?
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Lively vs Baldoni: Inside Hollywood’s PR machine
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How could the elections define the UK?
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Djokovic in exile
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A mother's loss: The case of Tarryn Baird
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Freud’s missing Bacon
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Can Starmer survive the Mandelson fallout?
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Ten to midnight: Iran's nuclear arms race
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Is this the end of Orban's influence?
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Unjust: How the Court of Appeal failed an innocent man
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Can we be saved from AI?
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Frontier Men: The Forbidden Island
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China’s shadow war: Ice picks in suburbia | Episode Three
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China’s shadow war: The Americans | Episode Two
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China’s shadow war: The dissidents | Episode One
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Why do mothers abandon babies?
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