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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...

China’s shadow war: Ice picks in suburbia | Episode Three

32 mins; April 01, 2026

China’s shadow war: The Americans | Episode Two

21 mins; March 31, 2026

China’s shadow war: The dissidents | Episode One

38 mins; March 30, 2026

Why do mothers abandon babies?

22 mins; March 26, 2026

Foundling

41 mins; March 24, 2026

Can AI write good literature?

23 mins; March 19, 2026

Kill talk: Pete Hegseth and the language of war

33 mins; March 17, 2026

Your best baby

45 mins; March 10, 2026

Rogue Brits: The Orthobros

17 mins; March 05, 2026

Rogue Brits: Fighting for Putin

39 mins; March 03, 2026

Stephen Miller’s America

45 mins; February 24, 2026

“My best pal”: Mandelson and Epstein

32 mins; February 16, 2026

Mismatch: Bumble vs the men’s rights activists

42 mins; February 09, 2026

Russia's shadow war at sea

30 mins; February 03, 2026

The God complex: Part 2

41 mins; January 26, 2026

Archive: Peltz-Beckham: A super-wedding gone wrong

40 mins; January 22, 2026

The God complex: Part 1

38 mins; January 19, 2026

Introducing the new host of the Slow Newscast

2 mins; January 15, 2026

The Walkers: The real Salt Path

42 mins; January 13, 2026

Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene: The MAGA divorce

44 mins; January 05, 2026

Sycamore Gap: felling of a tree

30 mins; December 30, 2025

A reckoning at the Guildhall School of Music

31 mins; December 23, 2025

Archive: Beastly: The stories of David Walliams

43 mins; December 22, 2025

Killing time: Part 2

33 mins; December 18, 2025

Killing time: Part 1

28 mins; December 16, 2025

My boy Gianni: Infantino and Trump

32 mins; December 09, 2025

Inside the Treasury

23 mins; December 02, 2025

What's Left?

29 mins; November 25, 2025

Deep Water

27 mins; November 17, 2025

William: The reluctant prince

28 mins; November 11, 2025

Epping: A very English uprising

25 mins; November 04, 2025

Among the settlers on Gaza's border

29 mins; October 28, 2025

Trolled: Brigitte Macron

44 mins; October 21, 2025

The shakedown: Donald Trump vs the media

34 mins; October 14, 2025

Gaza's Deadly Aid

39 mins; October 06, 2025

An uncivil war inside Unite

31 mins; September 30, 2025

Introducing ... We Have Notes

4 mins; September 25, 2025

Contagion: RFK Jr’s war on public health

40 mins; September 23, 2025

The match: My sister and her new DNA

40 mins; September 16, 2025

The immortality bros: the new frontiers of health

41 mins; September 09, 2025

The diva and the dictator: opera at war

28 mins; September 02, 2025

The great British honey scandal

35 mins; August 26, 2025

The mother and the gangs

40 mins; August 19, 2025

Signal failure: Who killed HS2?

36 mins; August 11, 2025

A lonely death on Jersey

30 mins; August 04, 2025

The real Salt Path

40 mins; July 29, 2025

The Lab Detective

41 mins; July 21, 2025

Illiberal land: Hungary’s empire of ideas

33 mins; July 15, 2025

The mystery of Francis Bacon's minder

40 mins; July 08, 2025

Introducing...Drilled

43 mins; July 07, 2025

Liz UnTrussed

34 mins; June 30, 2025

How to disappear

39 mins; June 24, 2025

Brute force: domestic abuse in the ranks

35 mins; June 17, 2025

The Wargame

59 mins; June 10, 2025

Jeff and Donald

51 mins; June 02, 2025

Jamie Vardy: The last underdog

24 mins; May 26, 2025

Car crash: Musk and Tesla

30 mins; May 20, 2025

Just Stop TurmOil

43 mins; May 13, 2025

Sara Sharif: one judge, three court cases and a murder

49 mins; May 06, 2025

Introducing...Oceans: Life Under Water

5 mins; May 05, 2025

Broken ranks: civil war in the police fed

40 mins; April 29, 2025

North Korea's war in Europe

38 mins; April 22, 2025

How to ruin a football club

42 mins; April 15, 2025

Nimby Nation

44 mins; April 08, 2025

Die, die, DEI

41 mins; April 01, 2025

The $Trumpcon

45 mins; March 24, 2025

The hunt for the 100ft wave

43 mins; March 18, 2025

Are we alone?

35 mins; March 11, 2025

Trump's Dealmaker: Steve Witkoff and Gaza

48 mins; March 04, 2025

Lucky Boy

38 mins; February 25, 2025

Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman | The lawsuit

28 mins; February 18, 2025

The Rwanda plan: How to waste £700m

32 mins; February 11, 2025

F**k it, release ‘em all: Trump and the Jan 6ers

42 mins; February 04, 2025

Goodbye mum: the ruthless fight for child custody

48 mins; January 30, 2025

A quick update for the listeners...

24 secs; January 29, 2025

Rogue Russia: Nuclear poker

39 mins; January 21, 2025

Rogue Russia: Agents of mayhem

42 mins; January 14, 2025

Jordan Peterson and the making of man

40 mins; January 07, 2025

Finding my voice

19 mins; December 31, 2024

The final bow: David Bowie's last act

21 mins; December 24, 2024

The immortality bros: The business of living forever

44 mins; December 17, 2024

Killing hope: Iran's mind wars

33 mins; December 10, 2024

Stuck in space

30 mins; December 03, 2024

My AI girlfriend: a cure for loneliness

41 mins; November 25, 2024

Operation Asshole: Paul Watson's whale war

44 mins; November 18, 2024

Elon: A star is born

29 mins; November 12, 2024

Sick parade: A crisis at Catterick Garrison

37 mins; November 05, 2024

The Furys: An empire of fists

46 mins; October 29, 2024

The cases against Sean Combs

33 mins; October 21, 2024

Beyond Trump: JD Vance and the New Right

42 mins; October 14, 2024

Elon's Spies

40 mins; October 07, 2024

The hunt for Iran's next Supreme Leader

36 mins; October 01, 2024

One light day: Voyager's long farewell

35 mins; September 24, 2024

Introducing...Whose Planet? The Climate Justice Podcast

3 mins; September 23, 2024

The Festival Fossil Fuels Fiasco

38 mins; September 17, 2024

Lucy Letby: the Expert Witness

55 mins; September 09, 2024

Leaked: who profits from celebrity nudes?

37 mins; September 02, 2024

Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman - episode 6

51 mins; August 26, 2024

The Clooney intervention

47 mins; August 19, 2024

Taylor Swift's London

32 mins; August 13, 2024

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