The Slow Newscast

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The Slow Newscast episodes

February 18, 2021 A fairy tale on Wall St
The myth of Gamestop was that it was a David and Goliath struggle. The truth was very different.
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40 min
February 11, 2021 306 days
Geoffrey Woolf spent longer in hospital after Covid-19 than almost anyone - 306 days. His son Nicky tells the story of what he went through, and how it changed everything.
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42 min
February 04, 2021 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.
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1 hr
January 28, 2021 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

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31 min
January 28, 2021 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
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41 min
January 28, 2021 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
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45 min
January 28, 2021 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.
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45 min
January 21, 2021 This was a coup
What was really going on when President Trump's supporters invaded the Capitol?
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49 min
January 14, 2021 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.
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40 min
January 07, 2021 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.
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48 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…