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  • After thirteen years, Jamie Vardy is leaving Leicester City. His time at the club is an example of not one, but two underdogs succeeding against the odds. Could anything like this happen again in the Premier League?


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  • Tesla saw their stock price soar with President Trump's election. But since January, it has come plummeting back down. Has Musk crashed Tesla?


    Reporter: Giles Whittell

    Producer: Matt Russell

    Sound design: Dominic Delargy

    Artwork: Lola Williams

    Editor: Jasper Corbett


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  • The radical climate protest group Just Stop Oil delighted supporters and infuriated opponents in equal measure. But then the government began to crack down on them. So where are they now?


    Reporter: David Taylor

    Producer: Matt Russell

    Artwork: Lola Williams

    Sound design: Dominic Delargy

    Editor: Jasper Corbett


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  • The brutal circumstances of Sara Sharif’s death were described by the judge that sent her killers to prison as torture. But when it emerged that the two adults who murdered her were granted parental responsibility by a family court judge four years earlier, the finger of blame began to wander. Who could have saved Sara Sharif? 


    Reporter: Louise Tickle

    Producer: Ada Barumé

    Artwork: Lola Williams

    Sound Design: Dominic Delargy

    Editor: Jasper Corbett


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  • Police officers aren’t allowed to strike or join a trade union. They rely instead on an organisation called the Police Federation to represent their interests. It’s a surprisingly powerful body that ultimately affects the way all of us are policed. This is the story of how it lost its way. 


    Reporter: John Simpson

    Producer: Katie Gunning

    Sound design: Dominic Delargy

    Artwork: Blythe Walker Sibthorp

    Editor: Jasper Corbett


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  • North Korean troops are in combat, likely for the first time since the Korean war in the 1950s. Not in Korea, but in Europe. Because last summer Ukraine launched a surprise offensive in Kursk, Russia. Since then, Russia have retaken most of the land taken. To do so, Russia looked towards North Korea.


    This is the story of Kursk...and how North Korea came to play a potentially key role in the war.


    Reporter: Claudia Williams

    Producer: Matt Russell

    Sound design: Dominic Delargy

    Artwork: Lola Williams

    Editor: Jasper Corbett and Ceri Thomas


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  • Manchester United is a club used to success. But it is languishing in the league and saddled with debt. This is the story of how one of the world's most successful football clubs fell apart.


    Reporter: Xavier Greenwood

    Producer: Xavier Greenwood

    Sound design: Dominic Delargy

    Artwork: Lola Williams

    Editor: Jasper Corbett


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  • Earlier this year the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, wrote about a group of people he called zealots. And he identified one man in particular who the Prime Minister claimed was costing the country its future. But maybe he's saving it? This is the story of that man, the so-called zealots, and a prime minister who wants to take them on.


    Reporter: Katie Gunning

    Producer: Matt Russell

    Sound design: Dominic Delargy

    Artwork: Lola Williams

    Editor: Jasper Corbett


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  • Donald Trump has ordered the federal government to scrap its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, and corporate America has supposedly followed suit. But this has someone else's fingerprints all over it. This is the story of how one man tried to kill an idea.


    Reporter: Stephen Armstrong


    Producer: Ada Barumé


    Sound design: Karla Patella


    Artwork: Lola Williams


    Editor: Jasper Corbett


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  • Memecoins started as a fad. A niche but fun way to bet on the longevity of internet trends. But then, days before his second inauguration, Donald Trump launched his own, $TRUMP… and changed the game. The value soared as supporters piled in, before crashing when his wife, Melania Trump, also released one. Amid the mayhem, one early buyer of the coin walked away with $109 million.


    The path to finding out who profited from $TRUMP goes through Argentina, where a young and naive entrepreneur called Hayden Davis attempted to pull off a similar stunt with the backing of the nation’s libertarian president, Javier Milei. But while Trump seemed to get away with it, Davis is now facing calls to be arrested.


    This episode offers a rare glimpse into a murky world full of get-rich-quick schemes, flashy personalities and cut-throat deals. It also carries a warning: what happens when unregulated crypto assets become a core part of the US economy?


    Reporter: Patricia Clarke and Barney Macintyre

    Producer: Patricia Clarke

    Sound design: Dominic Delargy

    Artwork: Lola Williams

    Editors: Jasper Corbett and Ceri Thomas


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  • Surfing’s ultimate barrier is the 100 foot wave. In Dec 23-year-old Alo Slebir is rumoured to have surfed a 108 foot wave. The problem is no one can agree how big the wave actually was.  


    Reporter: Claudia Williams 

    Producer: Ada Barumé  

    Sound design: Karla Patella 

    Artwork: Lola Williams 

    Executive Producer: Matt Russell 

    Editor: Jasper Corbett 


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  • Donald Trump promised to release classified files about extraterrestrials. But even if they disappoint the millions of people hoping to find proof of existence of aliens, there is a growing belief in the scientific community that it is only a matter of time before proof of life outside our solar system is found.


    Reporter: Giles Whittell

    Producer: Matt Russell

    Sound design: Dominic Delargy

    Artwork: Lola Williams

    Editor: Jasper Corbett


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  • A week before Donald Trump's inauguration, a real estate mogul flew to Jerusalem to meet Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Within days, a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel was agreed. What happened that weekend and how influential was the businessman in the diplomatic negotiations?


    Reporter: Donald Macintyre

    Producer: Matt Russell

    Sound design: Tom Burchell

    Artwork: Lola Williams

    Editor: Jasper Corbett

    Slow Newscast Executive Producer: Matt Russell


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  • Gareth spent years believing he was a lucky boy. He was the 14-year-old who got the attention of the attractive young science teacher. Now, decades later, he wants the truth to come out about the damage it’s caused him. But his story is not straight forward. 


    Reported and produced by: Chloe Hadjimatheou and Gary Marshall


    Sound design: Hannah Varrall


    Podcast artwork: Lola Williams


    Executive producer: Basia Cummings


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  • Last year we published a podcast series called Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman. Five women accused the best-selling fantasy author  Neil Gaiman of sexually assaulting them. Neil Gaiman denied the allegations. It was a complicated and difficult story which shone a light on the nature of consent within an existing relationship.  Now, one of those women has filed a lawsuit in the United States against both Neil Gaiman and his estranged wife, Amanda Palmer. She explains why. Neil Gaiman continues to deny the allegations and says he has ‘never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone. Ever.’


    Reporter: Rachel Johnson

    Producer: Katie Gunning

    Sound design: Dominic Delargy

    Artwork: Lola Williams

    Editor: Jasper Corbett

    Executive Producer for the Slow Newscast: Matt Russell

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  • The flagship policy for several Prime Ministers became the Rwanda plan. But three years, four Prime Ministers and £715 million later, the policy is dead and never really got off the ground. This is how so much money was spent on so little.


    Reporter: Catherine Neilan

    Producer: Ada Barume

    Sound design: Dominic Delargy

    Artwork: Lola Williams

    Editor: Jasper Corbett

    Slow Newscast Executive Producer: Matt Russell


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  • For more than two years, Special Counsel Jack Smith investigated allegations of President Trump’s election fraud. His investigation ended last month – not with a trial, but a dense report. Why has nobody paid attention?


    Reporter: Stephen Armstrong

    Producer: Claudia Williams

    Executive producer: Matt Russell

    Editor: Jasper Corbett

    Artwork: Lola Williams


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  • One of the most difficult questions facing a judge in the family court is which parent should have custody of a child. To help them answer that, judges rely on independent experts to provide an impartial voice in the court. But what happens when the objectivity of those experts is questioned? This is the story of how the family courts have failed some of the children it exists to protect.


    Reporters: Louise Tickle and Hannah Summers

    Additional reporting: Paul Bradshaw, Serena Cesaro, William Jarrett and Tom Wall

    Producer: Matt Russell

    Artwork: Lola Williams

    Editor: Jasper Corbett


    An investigation by Tortoise in partnership with The Bureau of Investigative Journalism


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  • In October 2022 the course of the Russia's war in Ukraine shifted. Intelligence from the USA and UK indicated that Russia could turn to a nuclear bomb to get on top of the war. This is the story of those six days in October, and just how close Putin really came to pressing the nuclear button.


    Reporter: Giles Whittell

    Producer: Ada Barume

    Additional reporting: Nina Kuryata

    Sound design: Dominic Delargy

    Artwork: Lola Williams

    Editor: Jasper Corbett

    Slow Newscast Executive Producer: Matt Russell


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  • Last October, the head of MI5 said Russia was on a mission to cause "sustained mayhem" on European streets. It might be hard to spot at first, but it is there in plain sight. This is the unpredictable, violent world of the modern Russian intelligence services


    Reporter: Alexi Mostrous

    Producer: Gary Marshall

    Sound design: Dominic Delargy

    Artwork: Lola Williams

    Editor: Jasper Corbett

    Slow Newscast Executive Producer: Matt Russell


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