# The Slow Newscast Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150.md RSS feed: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/a8a5a759-8cb1-52ad-b50a-8e08dcee4d1f Official site: https://observer.co.uk/ Author: Alice Sandelson Episodes: 416 ## Resource 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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See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-slow-newscast-1064150 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150.md ## Episodes - [SNC Extra: Are heatwaves the new norm?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/snc-extra-are-heatwaves-the-new-norm) — 2026-06-25T01:00:00+00:00 - [The Burnham Identity](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/the-burnham-identity) — 2026-06-23T04:30:00+00:00 - [SNC Extra: Frank Cottrell Boyce on modern childhood](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/snc-extra-frank-cottrell-boyce-on-modern-childhood) — 2026-06-18T04:30:00+00:00 - [Pepped-up: the secret world of peptides](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/pepped-up-the-secret-world-of-peptides) — 2026-06-16T01:00:00+00:00 - [K2: Killer Mountain](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/k2-killer-mountain) — 2026-06-11T06:00:20+00:00 - [Online grooming: a mother's story](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/online-grooming-a-mother-s-story) — 2026-06-09T04:30:00+00:00 - [SNC Extra: The Henry Nowak case](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/snc-extra-the-henry-nowak-case) — 2026-06-04T09:10:44+00:00 - [On trial: oil and war crimes](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/on-trial-oil-and-war-crimes) — 2026-06-02T05:00:00+00:00 - [Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark: What does the future of AI look like?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/anthropic-co-founder-jack-clark-what-does-the-future-of-ai-look-like) — 2026-05-28T04:00:00+00:00 - ['Social media is killing our kids'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/social-media-is-killing-our-kids) — 2026-05-26T04:00:00+00:00 - [How might Labour's new leaders grow the UK?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/how-might-labour-s-new-leaders-grow-the-uk) — 2026-05-21T16:09:40+00:00 - [Doped Up!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/doped-up) — 2026-05-19T04:00:00+00:00 - [Nigel Farage and the five million pound gift: what's wrong with that?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/nigel-farage-and-the-five-million-pound-gift-what-s-wrong-with-that) — 2026-05-14T16:40:02+00:00 - [Lively vs Baldoni: Inside Hollywood’s PR machine](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/lively-vs-baldoni-inside-hollywood-s-pr-machine) — 2026-05-12T04:00:00+00:00 - [How could the elections define the UK?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/how-could-the-elections-define-the-uk) — 2026-05-07T15:51:58+00:00 - [Djokovic in exile](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/djokovic-in-exile) — 2026-05-05T11:05:16+00:00 - [A mother's loss: The case of Tarryn Baird](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/a-mother-s-loss-the-case-of-tarryn-baird) — 2026-04-30T16:00:00+00:00 - [Freud’s missing Bacon](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/freud-s-missing-bacon) — 2026-04-28T04:00:00+00:00 - [Can Starmer survive the Mandelson fallout?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/can-starmer-survive-the-mandelson-fallout) — 2026-04-22T16:22:47+00:00 - [Ten to midnight: Iran's nuclear arms race](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/ten-to-midnight-iran-s-nuclear-arms-race) — 2026-04-21T05:00:00+00:00 - [Is this the end of Orban's influence?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/is-this-the-end-of-orban-s-influence) — 2026-04-16T15:00:00+00:00 - [Unjust: How the Court of Appeal failed an innocent man](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/unjust-how-the-court-of-appeal-failed-an-innocent-man) — 2026-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 - [Can we be saved from AI?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/can-we-be-saved-from-ai) — 2026-04-09T16:10:00+00:00 - [Frontier Men: The Forbidden Island](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/frontier-men-the-forbidden-island) — 2026-04-07T05:00:00+00:00 - [China’s shadow war: Ice picks in suburbia | Episode Three](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slow-newscast-1064150/china-s-shadow-war-ice-picks-in-suburbia-episode-three) — 2026-04-02T04:00:00+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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