The Slow Newscast

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.


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Can Starmer survive the Mandelson fallout?

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 premiership. What does this episode tell us about Starmer h...

22 Huhti 21min

Ten to midnight: Iran's nuclear arms race

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 grade nuclear bomb material. The story of Iran's nuclear arm...

21 Huhti 34min

Is this the end of Orban's influence?

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 soft power through think-tanks, universities and media organisa...

16 Huhti 41min

Unjust: How the Court of Appeal failed an innocent man

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 finally released. Why does the court work so slowly? Why is it...

14 Huhti 31min

Can we be saved from AI?

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 this be a blueprint for how to avoid history repeating itself...

9 Huhti 28min

Frontier Men: The Forbidden Island

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 everyone else on the planet. His bid for content may have been a...

7 Huhti 33min

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

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 behalf of the Chinese state. His story takes a dramatic turn w...

2 Huhti 32min

China’s shadow war: The Americans | Episode Two

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, exposing the murky world of transnational repression and China’s ...

1 Huhti 21min

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