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The Slow Newscast

Alice Sandelson

The Slow Newscast takes news slowly. We investigate, we report, and every week we try to focus on the stories that really matter in the UK and around the world. Your host is Basia Cummings.

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Listen to The Slow Newscast, a News & Politics podcast by Alice Sandelson. Stream 432 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Ctrl Alt Restore

Rupert Lowe is the MP for Great Yarmouth, and the leader of Restore Britain, a right-wing political party which launched in February this ye...

35:52Aug 18, 2026

What next for Reform and Nigel Farage?

Nigel Farage has been re-elected as MP for Clacton. But that also means a Parliamentary investigation into Farage resumes. So what's next fo...

22:32Aug 14, 2026

The Mandelson files

When Peter Mandelson was sacked as the UK’s ambassador to the United States over his links with Jeffrey Epstein people wondered how he ever...

28:28Aug 11, 2026

Is mountaineering getting more deadly?

On Thursday 30th July, an avalanche hit the world's twelfth highest mountain. Ten experienced climbers were caught by it, among them one of...

29:47Aug 7, 2026

Hard knocks: the cost of courage

When World Cup Winner Phil Vickery retired in 2010, he thought his toughest physical battles were behind him. Today, like hundreds of former...

40:46Aug 4, 2026

Who owns our water?

What are companies extracting British spring water, companies like Coca Cola and Nestle, paying for that water? The answer is extraordinary....

25:20Jul 31, 2026

One-star review: A stolen year

How a mislaid phone led to a nightmare of fake reviews and claims of antisemitism. When Ali, a restaurateur, realised his mobile’s security...

38:30Jul 28, 2026

Have England failed again?

Another heartbreak for England in the World Cup, but does the tournament tell us anything about the nation's mentality? Rory Smith reveals t...

25:08Jul 17, 2026

Fire on the mountain: Mistaken identity

Ademola Adedeji was wrongfully identified as a gang member and jailed for conspiracy to commit GBH. This is the story of how a nine second c...

40:12Jul 14, 2026

SNC Extra: Syria's war crimes dossier

Caesar and Sami risked everything to show the world what was truly going on in Syria after the 2011 revolution. The Caesar files are a colle...

32:06Jul 9, 2026

We call her Emma

When the Arab Spring reached Syria in 2011, Bashar al-Assad's regime showed itself for what it really was: a brutal force, willing to captur...

43:08Jul 7, 2026

Wasteland: the rubbish gangs

Criminal gangs have turned Britain's waste system into a goldmine and transformed pockets of the countryside into toxic wastelands. But how...

39:05Jun 30, 2026

SNC Extra: Are heatwaves the new norm?

Each year new temperature records are threatened to be broken. But the UK seems to respond not with innovative adaptation, but with shock. W...

20:03Jun 25, 2026

The Burnham Identity

Following Keir Starmer's resignation, Andy Burnham is now in prime position to become the UK's next prime minister. So what does he stand fo...

29:12Jun 23, 2026

Pepped-up: the secret world of peptides

Ordinary people are turning to illegally produced peptides in the hopes of a beauty quick fix. How are these shady black market drugs slippi...

43:32Jun 16, 2026