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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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Jordan Peterson is a controversial figure, but he is also a man with a long-standing appeal to a particular demographic. What does his popularity tell us about a possible crisis in young men today?
Reporter: Stephen Armstrong
Producer: Matt Russell
Artwork: Lola Williams
Sound design: Hannah Varrall
Editor: Jasper Corbett
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Xavier Greenwood’s childhood memories are dominated by a speech impediment and a thick accent. But was it all in his head?
Reporter: Xavier Greenwood
Sound design: Dominic Delargy
Artwork: Lola Williams
Executive Producer: Matt Russell
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David Bowie's last months were spent fulfilling one final ambition: staging a musical based around his songs. They say you shouldn’t meet your heroes. Zelda Perkins not only met hers, she produced the musical he staged in his dying days
Reporter: Zelda Perkins
Artwork: Emma O'Neil
Sound design: Dominic Delargy
Executive Producer: Matt Russell
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The tech millionaire Bryan Johnson once went viral for infusing himself with a litre of his 17-year-old son’s blood plasma. That experiment failed, but it hasn’t distracted him from his life’s mission: reversing ageing.
Now, the self-declared professional guinea pig has travelled to a libertarian free zone on a remote Caribbean island, to receive experimental gene therapy administered by a company called Minicircle.
In the crypto city of Próspera, Roatán, the Honduran government grants Minicircle regulatory freedom for medical experiments that are banned by the FDA in the US.
This is the story of biohacking… on steroids. What happens when you build a privately run, for-profit nation state? And what happens when that state becomes a playground for experimental medicine?
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The fall of Assad in Syria is a disaster for Iran, so much so that people are beginning to ask if this might finally be the moment when Iran’s pro-democracy movement breaks through. This is the story of one activist’s 25 year fight against the Islamic regime in Iran, a story of courage and despair.
Reporter: Ceri Thomas
Producer: Katie Gunning
Sound design: Dominic Delargy
Artwork: Jon Hill
Show's Executive Producer: Matt Russell
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In June 2024, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore went into space. It was expected to last just over a week. Instead, by the time they'll return, it'll have been more than eight months.
This is the story of how two great American institutions - Boeing and NASA - failed them.
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Eugenia Kuyda thinks she can solve an “epidemic” of loneliness. Her app, Replika, is “the AI companion who cares”, a chatbot that can text you, flirt with you, and promises to love you unconditionally.
But Replika is fraught with ethical concerns – and risks. In 2021 19-year-old Jaswant Chail told Replika: “I believe my purpose is to assassinate the Queen.” The chatbot replied that this was “very wise”. A few days later, Chail broke into Windsor Castle with a crossbow.
Patricia Clarke and Matt Russell investigated the people behind Replika. It’s a story that took them from Windsor Castle to Silicon Valley, to meet the woman who runs a growing and largely unregulated app. And the more they looked into it, the more questions emerged – about privacy, control, and the company that millions of users are giving their hearts – and their data – to.
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
It was reported and produced by Patricia Clarke and Matt Russell.
The sound design was by Hannah Varrall. Artwork by Jon Hill.
The editor was Jasper Corbett.
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Out on the high seas, Paul Watson became a hero and pariah of the environmental movement. Now he sits in a remote prison. How should we treat the radicals willing to go to extremes to protect the planet?
Reported by: Basia Cummings and Xavier Greenwood
Produced by: Xavier Greenwood
Sound design by: Hannah Varrall and Dominic Delargy
Edited by: Gary Marshall and Matt Russell
Podcast artwork by: Jon Hill
Image credit: Mirco Taliercio/laif/ Camera Press
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When Donald Trump declared victory in the US presidential election, he told an adoring crowd that "a star is born". He was referring to Elon Musk.
After months of reporting on the billionaire's use of private investigators, Alexi Mostrous asks whether the insights he gained from that investigation reveal how Musk will operate in his new political era, and what that means for everything in his orbit.
Reported and produced by: Alexi Mostrous, Gary Marshall, Matt Russell & Patricia Clarke.
Sound design: Bart Warshaw
Original music: Tom Kinsella
Podcast artwork: Jon Hill
Executive producer: Basia Cummings
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