
The Slow Newscast
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The Slow Newscast from Tortoise takes the news slowly. We investigate, and every week we focus on stories that really matter in the UK and around the world. From the war in Ukraine, the downfall of Boris Johnson, to true crime and injustice and real life mysteries, The Slow Newscast team is devoted to narrative investigations. From a startup newsroom with a different approach to journalism...
The Slow Newscast
5d ago
For more than two years, Special Counsel Jack Smith investigated allegations of President Trump’s election fraud. His investigation ended last month – not with a trial, but a dense report. Why has nobody paid attention?
Reporter: Stephen Armstrong
Producer: Claudia Williams
Executive producer: Matt Russell
Editor: Jasper Corbett
Artwork: Lola Williams
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The Slow Newscast
1w ago
One of the most difficult questions facing a judge in the family court is which parent should have custody of a child. To help them answer that, judges rely on independent experts to provide an impartial voice in the court. But what happens when the objectivity of those experts is questioned? This is the story of how the family courts have failed some of the children it exists to protect.
Reporters: Louise Tickle and Hannah Summers
Additional reporting: Paul Bradshaw, Serena Cesaro, William Jarrett and Tom Wall
Producer: Matt Russell
Artwork: Lola Williams
Editor: Jasper Corbett
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The Slow Newscast
1w ago
A quick update for the listeners about the delayed publication of this week's episode of the Slow Newscast from Tortoise
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The Slow Newscast
2w ago
In October 2022 the course of the Russia's war in Ukraine shifted. Intelligence from the USA and UK indicated that Russia could turn to a nuclear bomb to get on top of the war. This is the story of those six days in October, and just how close Putin really came to pressing the nuclear button.
Reporter: Giles Whittell
Producer: Ada Barume
Additional reporting: Nina Kuryata
Sound design: Dominic Delargy
Artwork: Lola Williams
Editor: Jasper Corbett
Slow Newscast Executive Producer: Matt Russell
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The Slow Newscast
3w ago
Last October, the head of MI5 said Russia was on a mission to cause "sustained mayhem" on European streets. It might be hard to spot at first, but it is there in plain sight. This is the unpredictable, violent world of the modern Russian intelligence services
Reporter: Alexi Mostrous
Producer: Gary Marshall
Sound design: Dominic Delargy
Artwork: Lola Williams
Editor: Jasper Corbett
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The Slow Newscast
3w ago
A fifth woman has come forward with allegations against the author Neil Gaiman.
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The Slow Newscast
1M ago
Jordan Peterson is a controversial figure, but he is also a man with a long-standing appeal to a particular demographic. What does his long-standing popularity tell us about a possible crisis in young men today?
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The Slow Newscast
1M ago
Xavier Greenwood’s childhood memories are dominated by a speech impediment and a thick accent. But was it all in his head?
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The Slow Newscast
1M ago
David Bowie's last months were spent fulfilling one final ambition: staging a musical based around his songs. They say you shouldn’t meet your heroes. Zelda Perkins not only met hers, she produced the musical he staged in his dying days
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The Slow Newscast
1M ago
The tech millionaire Bryan Johnson once went viral for infusing himself with a litre of his 17-year-old son’s blood plasma. That experiment failed, but it hasn’t distracted him from his life’s mission: reversing ageing.
Now, the self-declared professional guinea pig has travelled to a libertarian free zone on a remote Caribbean island, to receive experimental gene therapy administered by a company called Minicircle.
In the crypto city of Próspera, Roatán, the Honduran government grants Minicircle regulatory freedom for medical experiments that are banned by the FDA in the US.
Th ..read more