The Slow Newscast

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The Slow Newscast episodes

January 09, 2023 The Westminster Accounts
Over £183 million of outside funds has flowed into this parliament alone, with no way of fully understanding who’s getting what, from whom, and why. Until now. This is the story of the money flowing into our politics, hidden in plain sight.

To explore The Westminster Accounts tool click on this link.
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42 min
January 03, 2023 Damn and blast off: how not to go back to the moon
Nasa wants to put people back on the moon, half a century after Apollo 11. Its Artemis moon mission is over-budget, overhyped and underpowered – it might even be the end of Nasa as we know it.
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38 min
December 29, 2022 2022 picks - The Darwin job: the mystery of the vanishing notebooks
One sleuth, two notebooks – and a 20-year puzzle
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44 min
December 22, 2022 2022 picks - Lebedev: Lord of Siberia
Door after door in Britain has been opened for Evgeny Lebedev, all the way to the House of Lords. Who has opened them, and why?

To listen to the 'Londongrad' series follow this link.
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1 hr 3 min
December 15, 2022 Musking it: Inside Elon’s Twitter takeover
The inside story of a troubled company that was bought by the world’s richest man.
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32 min
December 05, 2022 Octopus: the allegations against Crispin Odey
One of Britain’s richest and most powerful men was cleared of sexual assault last year. Four more women have now come forward with similar allegations that Crispin Odey, a major donor to the Conservative party, sexually assaulted them. Other women allege that he sexually harassed them at the offices of his Mayfair hedge fund company.
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49 min
December 01, 2022 The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic
Introducing – The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic.

In a few months, the Tavistock – the only NHS clinic in England and Wales which treats children suffering from gender dysphoria – will close. This is the story of what happened.

This is episode 1 of our new investigative series. To listen to episode 2 today, search The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic or click here: https://podfollow.com/the-tavistock-inside-the-gender-clinic and follow the feed for future episodes

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41 min
November 24, 2022 Inside Unite
One of Britain’s biggest trade unions has built a hotel in Birmingham at vast cost. Following the threads which explain why it became so wildly expensive leads inevitably to a surprising place: to Liverpool. And to questions which could hurt the Labour party.
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59 min
November 17, 2022 The Alzheimer's casino
Big money and bad science: what happens when science and medical research meet Wall Street?
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42 min
November 10, 2022 Egypt's bad cop
The story of one man, fighting to his last breath, to reveal the darkness that lies behind this year’s UN Climate Change Conference.
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40 min

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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…