A mother's loss: The case of Tarryn Baird
Alexi is joined by the Observer's national news editor, Claudia Williams to discuss the case of Tarryn Baird. Last week, her husband, Christ...
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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.
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Freud’s missing Bacon
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...
Can Starmer survive the Mandelson fallout?
This week, there’s one story dominating the headlines: the Peter Mandelson scandal and whether it spells the end for Keir Starmer’s troubled...
Ten to midnight: Iran's nuclear arms race
According to United States and Israel, there's 460 kilograms of enriched uranium that Iran are just ten days away from turning into weapons...
Is this the end of Orban's influence?
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...
Unjust: How the Court of Appeal failed an innocent man
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...
Can we be saved from AI?
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...
Frontier Men: The Forbidden Island
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...
China’s shadow war: Ice picks in suburbia | Episode Three
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...
China’s shadow war: The Americans | Episode Two
American citizens are recruited to carry out Beijing’s dirty work on home soil. A Florida correctional officer poses as an art dealer, expos...
China’s shadow war: The dissidents | Episode One
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...
Why do mothers abandon babies?
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
Foundling is a six-part original series from Tortoise Investigates and The Observer. This is episode 1 - On the verge Journalist Lucy Greenw...
Can AI write good literature?
Last week, the New York Times ran an experiment that has far-reaching implications, especially for book lovers. It asked readers to compare...
Kill talk: Pete Hegseth and the language of war
America's war against Iran has revealed plenty of gunslinging, provocative rhetoric from the US defence secretary Pete Hegseth. But is there...
Your best baby
Genetic testing start ups are a booming industry in America. Behind the headlines of 'designer babies' are companies tapping into disputed s...
Rogue Brits: The Orthobros
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’...
Rogue Brits: Fighting for 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’s America
Stephen Miller is the United States Homeland Security Advisor. But the vague sounding title belies his immense influence with Donald Trump b...
“My best pal”: Mandelson and Epstein
The Epstein Files are wreaking havoc across British institutions; first the Royal family and now, the government. Peter Mandelson was sacked...
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