The Slow Newscast
The Observer
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 a newsroom with a different approach to journalism these are the stories we tell.To find out more about The Observer:Subscribe to TheObserver+ on Apple Podcasts for early access and ad-free contentHead to our website observer.co.uk Download the Tortoise app – for a listening experience curated by our journalistsIf you want to get in touch with us directly about a story, or tell us more about the stories you want to hear about contact hello@tortoisemedia.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Feb 4, 2021 • 59min
Corinna & the king: The money hunt
Power, greed, and a $65m 'gift': the story of King Juan Carlos of Spain and Corinna, his lover. They occupied a world of high-rolling hunting parties and complicated gifts – until it went seriously wrong. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 28, 2021 • 30min
Hidden Homicides - episode 4
The final episode of our special series. How do you fix a fatal problem no one is properly measuring?To learn more, go to tortoisemedia.com/hiddenhomicides Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 28, 2021 • 41min
Hidden Homicides - episode 3
The astonishing case of Emily Whelan, and decisions and delays that cannot be undone. The third episode in our special series on the deaths that may be going unrecognised, and uncounted, by police. To learn more, go to tortoisemedia.com/hiddenhomicides Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 28, 2021 • 44min
Hidden Homicides - episode 2
The second part of our new series, Hidden Homicides: the story of a killer twice missed. When Susan Nicholson died suddenly, her parents were immediately suspicious. Her partner was known to police to be a serious domestic abuser, but still they refused to investigate. It took six years before a proper investigation was launched. Why?To learn more, go to tortoisemedia.com/hiddenhomicides Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 28, 2021 • 45min
Hidden Homicides - episode 1
In a new series by Tortoise, we tell the shocking stories of women whose possible homicides go unrecognised, and uncounted, by police. In episode 1: the life and death of 21-year-old Katie Wilding, and her mother’s remarkable fight for justice.To learn more, go to tortoisemedia.com/hiddenhomicides. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 21, 2021 • 49min
This was a coup
What was really going on when President Trump's supporters invaded the Capitol? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 14, 2021 • 39min
Shot in the dark
Coronavirus vaccines are a triumph for science, and an enormous gamble for the UK. They're all we've got left: our only hope of getting out of the Covid crisis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 7, 2021 • 48min
Crossing the Channel
A former army base in Folkstone, Kent, is now the controversial epicentre of the Britain's immigration debate – a debate that hasn’t gone away with Brexit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 17, 2020 • 58min
Did it have to be this bad?
Britain has one of the worst records in the world at dealing with the coronavirus. The country's death toll, and the economic damage it suffers, will be worse than most of its competitors; possibly worse than any of them. Over three days in November, Tortoise held an inquiry into why things have gone so wrong. Basia Cummings reports back on its findings - and on her own year coping, as we all have, with an unprecedented crisis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 10, 2020 • 29min
Is Covid cover for corruption?
The British government has spent billions tackling the coronavirus, and some of it has gone to friends and family of people in high places. Contracts for safety equipment or for testing for Covid have been handed out without the usual safeguards on public spending, and accusations of corruption and cronyism have flown around. Is that what's happening, or is the explanation more mundane? Would the government's actions be better seen as normal in the wildly abnormal situation of a pandemic? And have they perhaps been aided and abetted by garden variety incompetence? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
