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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.
Alexi is joined by the Observer's national news editor, Claudia Williams to discuss the case of Tarryn Baird. Last week, her husband, Christ...
In 1988, a painting by Lucian Freud of his one-time friend Francis Bacon was stolen from a Berlin art gallery. It’s now worth £20 million. T...
This week, there’s one story dominating the headlines: the Peter Mandelson scandal and whether it spells the end for Keir Starmer’s troubled...
According to United States and Israel, there's 460 kilograms of enriched uranium that Iran are just ten days away from turning into weapons...
After sixteen years of rule in Hungary, Viktor Orbán has been voted out of office. But in that time, he’s built a deep-rooted network of sof...
Ceri Thomas revisits the appalling case of Peter Sullivan, jailed for 38 years for a murder he did not commit and offered no apology when fi...
Meta and YouTube were found liable earlier this year in a social media addiction trial and ordered to pay out $6 million in damages. Could t...
Last year, a YouTuber attempted to reach an uncontacted tribe on the remote island of North Sentinel, an area that is out of bounds for ever...
A businessman from Tunbridge Wells is accused of leading a double life. He’s secretly recorded planning a brutal attack with ice picks on be...
American citizens are recruited to carry out Beijing’s dirty work on home soil. A Florida correctional officer poses as an art dealer, expos...
Alexi goes in search of the “long arm” of the Chinese state following a series of attacks and bounties on British soil. He uncovers a coordi...
Every year babies are abandoned by their parents. Following a long reporting project exploring the story of one foundling on a search for he...
Foundling is a six-part original series from Tortoise Investigates and The Observer. This is episode 1 - On the verge Journalist Lucy Greenw...
Last week, the New York Times ran an experiment that has far-reaching implications, especially for book lovers. It asked readers to compare...
America's war against Iran has revealed plenty of gunslinging, provocative rhetoric from the US defence secretary Pete Hegseth. But is there...
Genetic testing start ups are a booming industry in America. Behind the headlines of 'designer babies' are companies tapping into disputed s...
Alexi sits down with the reporter of this week’s Slow Newscast, Francisco Garcia, to talk about one stop in particular on the road to Putin’...
Jay Fraser was born and raised in Dunblane. Then, after the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he signed up to fight...for Russia, not Ukraine. No...
Stephen Miller is the United States Homeland Security Advisor. But the vague sounding title belies his immense influence with Donald Trump b...
The Epstein Files are wreaking havoc across British institutions; first the Royal family and now, the government. Peter Mandelson was sacked...
The dating app Bumble built its identity on a promise: women make the first move. In this episode, The Observer uncovers a legal campaign by...
There are over a thousand oil tankers at sea that are helping finance Russia's war in Ukraine in plain sight. And they're not just trading i...
Rachel hears the shocking story of “Patient A”, who explains that patients are at risk too. Her testimony raises more questions about the wa...
This week Brooklyn Beckham publicly cut ties with his parents David and Victoria Beckham. Its exposed a rift in the family that seemingly da...
When an esteemed transplant surgeon is found to have sexually harassed a number of his female colleagues — sometimes in the middle of operat...
From next week, our Investigations Editor Alexi Mostrous – the man behind Sweet Bobby, Who Trolled Amber and Elon’s Spies – will take over a...
In a small town in north Wales, an alleged theft at a local estate agents plants the seeds for a global blockbuster. To listen to episode tw...
Donald Trump is facing an unexpected fallout as one of his most loyal supporters has resigned from Congress and turned against him. With div...
One of the stories in 2025 that seemed to capture the British public's attention was the trial for the men accused of cutting down the iconi...
Like many public institutions across the UK, the Guildhall school of music has had to reckon with a past where abuse by staff was either ign...
David Walliams has been dropped by his publisher over alleged ‘inappropriate’ behaviour. A spokesperson for Walliams said that the author ha...
In October reporter Hilary Andersson was selected to witness an execution by lethal injection in Oklahoma. Her assignment led her to the cas...
In October reporter Hilary Andersson was selected to witness an execution by lethal injection in Oklahoma. Her assignment led her to the cas...
Gianni Infantino is the most powerful man in world football but in the run up to the 2026 men's World Cup, his relationship with US presiden...
The chancellor’s budget was supposed to be a gamechanger, but turned out to be an exercise in political survival. This is the story of how K...
When Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana announced a new political party this summer, it had all the ingredients to be a big success. But a summ...
Three years ago, travel writer Lydia Gard discovered freediving. An extreme and beautiful sport defined by one objective: to dive as deep as...
With Prince Harry in effective exile and Andrew disgraced, the Royal family is smaller than ever before and at a potential crisis point. Pri...
Over the summer, Epping, a small town on the outskirts of London became the scene of mass protests. featuring hundreds of people. Noisy and...
Just outside Gaza is a small settlement of Israelis hoping to enter and settle inside Gaza. They may be a fringe movement, but their voice h...
The French President and the First Lady of France are taking American right wing commentator Candace Owens to court in Delaware over bizarre...
Donald Trump has launched four lawsuits against major media organisations for up to $15 billion over the past year. This is the story of Tru...
Since May, almost 900 Palestinians are reported to have been killed in the vicinity of aid checkpoints. So what exactly has happened at thes...
Unite was once the biggest trade union in Britain, and the largest funder of the Labour Party. In the past its reputation has come under scr...
The week in culture, annotated. Writer and journalist Liv Little and Observer critic Miranda Sawyer get notes from editors all the time - no...
Insiders tell the story of how the US Health Secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has hollowed out the Center for Disease Control putting the who...
What happens when you get new blood and new DNA from a complete stranger? This is the story of a woman whose own features began to change fo...
A city in Honduras is home to a start-up selling experimental gene therapies for $25,000 a dose. Now, those radical ideas are reaching the U...
Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Anna Netrebko was the biggest opera star in a generation. Since the war, due to past support for Vladimi...
For nearly a decade beekeepers around the world have been saying that there’s something very wrong with the honey industry. Prices are down,...