The Slow Newscast

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The Slow Newscast episodes

June 17, 2021 The missing note
In little more than a year - the year of the pandemic - Anand Menon lost his mother, father, brother and sister, but not to Covid. Grief and loss have been a part of so many lives this year, but none more so than Anand's.
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35 min
June 10, 2021 A death at Lancaster Lodge
Sophie Bennett took her own life in a care facility that was crumbling around her. Paul Caruana Galizia and Chris Cook investigate what went wrong at a charity led by a famous mental health pioneer.
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54 min
June 02, 2021 Inside Downing Street: the second couple
After Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds’ wedding, there are now two powerful married couples in Number 10. Meet the other: Munira and Dougie...
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49 min
May 27, 2021 Hunt for the porn king
As dozens of women accuse the world’s largest porn company of profiting from their abuse, listen to the full story of how we traced its secretive owner to his London mansion
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56 min
May 20, 2021 The neo-Nazis next door
In the German city of Chemnitz, political extremists aren’t just present – they’re organised. And they’re trying to spread their creed from ramshackle buildings to the rest of the country
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31 min
May 12, 2021 The white gold rush
The story of a dying lake, a forgotten community and the hunt for a green future. Host Basia Cummings is joined by reporters Miranda Green and Lucy Sherriff to investigate.

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45 min
May 06, 2021 What happened to Shukri Abdi?
When A 12-year-old Somali refugee drowned in the River Irwell in 2019, suspicion and rumour soon followed. In this episode, Basia is joined by reporter Nimo Omer to investigate what happened to Shukri Abdi.
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48 min
April 29, 2021 Pariah - episode 4
A life like Harvey Proctor’s has lessons for the police and the media. And for all of us: what are we prepared to do to people we turn into hate figures?
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41 min
April 29, 2021 Pariah - episode 3
Harvey Proctor was caught in the middle of a deadly serious police investigation, Operation Midland. How could he fight it?
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40 min
April 29, 2021 Pariah - episode 2
It’s tough to survive one huge, public scandal in your life. Two is almost unheard of. But that was about to happen to Harvey Proctor.
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46 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…