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Recent Tortoise Media Podcasts
The Sensemaker from Tortoise - one story every day to make sense of the world.To find out more about Tortoise:Download the Tortoise app for a listening experience curated by our journalists.Subscribe to Tortois...
The Slow Newscast from Tortoise takes the news slowly. We investigate, and every week we focus on stories that really matter in the UK and around the world. From the war in Ukraine, the downfall of Boris Johnso...
Kirat is a successful radio presenter. On Facebook she meets Bobby, a handsome cardiologist. He’s a catch. Soon, they get tangled up in a love affair full of lies and manipulation. Then... Kirat discovers a dec...
Christopher Allen was trying to make it as a war reporter when, aged just 26, he was shot and killed on the frontline in South Sudan. But as news of his death began to spread, suspicion grew. Some claimed he wa...
All six episodes of Real Money are available now to listen for free.The world of cryptocurrencies is shaking. It might be just one domino-fall away from a complete crash, and that domino has a name. It’s called...
Londongrad: How the Lebedevs partied their way to power is a 6 part series investigating two men – who are at the heart of the story of Britain opening its doors to Russian Oligarchs. Alexander Lebedev is the m...
Introducing... Hoaxed, the new series from Alexi Mostrous and Tortoise, who brought you Sweet Bobby.In 2014, two children told police a shocking story: that they were being abused by a Satanic cult; a cult head...
Daphne Caruana Galizia spent her career uncovering corruption at the highest levels of politics on the Mediterranean island of Malta. As an investigative journalist in this tiny, tightly-knit country her surnam...
A series of in-depth conversations from Britain's most forensic interviewer. Andrew Neil speaks to people with the power to shape events, and to influence our understanding of them. Subscribe to get a new episo...
A collection of daily messages from inside Ukraine as the Russian invasion unfolds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Recent Tortoise Media Episodes
Publication Date | Jul 02, 2020
Duration | 00:29:25
Publication Date | Jul 02, 2020
Duration | 00:29:25
The royal family's finances are mysterious, and the strange formula which calculates the money they get from the taxpayer is badly understood. Tortoise has been going through the accounts. What they show is a f...
Publication Date | Jun 25, 2020
Duration | 00:31:13
Publication Date | Jun 25, 2020
Duration | 00:31:13
Like a handful of football managers before him, Jurgen Klopp is fascinating as a leader. His ability to motivate people around him would be exceptional in any occupation, in any circumstances, and the connectio...
Publication Date | Jun 18, 2020
Duration | 00:51:29
Publication Date | Jun 18, 2020
Duration | 00:51:29
Boris Johnson could have died from coronavirus. He recovered, but the costs to the country of his illness were huge. Government was paralysed without him and vital decisions weren't taken. How did things fall a...
Publication Date | Jun 11, 2020
Duration | 00:32:02
Publication Date | Jun 11, 2020
Duration | 00:32:02
The protests on the streets of the United States and around the world have taken the authorities by surprise. But they haven't sprung from nowhere; they've sprung from attitudes and events dating back hundreds ...
Publication Date | Jun 04, 2020
Duration | 00:32:35
Publication Date | Jun 04, 2020
Duration | 00:32:35
Amazon is a true economic superpower; a company of a scale and kind we haven't seen before. It's relentless in its pursuit of efficiency on behalf of its customers, but what does it believe in? How does it see ...
Publication Date | May 28, 2020
Duration | 00:24:22
Publication Date | May 28, 2020
Duration | 00:24:22
It's not just the hopes of young people which depend on them going to university, whole towns and cities rely on them too. The British government estimated that education would be worth £23bn to the UK economy ...
Publication Date | May 21, 2020
Duration | 00:27:45
Publication Date | May 21, 2020
Duration | 00:27:45
No part of British society has been harder hit by the coronavirus pandemic than care homes. 15,000 people have died there. Why were they uniquely vulnerable? Partly because they housed vulnerable people; partly...
Publication Date | May 14, 2020
Duration | 00:27:15
Publication Date | May 14, 2020
Duration | 00:27:15
When coronavirus struck and the UK locked down, the government began paying the wages of furloughed workers. It's a hugely expensive policy. There are risks in continuing it but the risks of stopping may be eve...
Publication Date | May 07, 2020
Duration | 00:28:58
Publication Date | May 07, 2020
Duration | 00:28:58
The Nightingale hospitals - huge intensive care hospitals built in a matter of days to deal with the overspill if regular hospitals couldn't cope with the numbers of coronavirus patients - are sitting empty. It...
Publication Date | Apr 30, 2020
Duration | 00:25:40
Publication Date | Apr 30, 2020
Duration | 00:25:40
Claude Jibidar is country director for the World Food Programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo - a huge country beset with vast problems, not just food shortages but armed conflict and ebola as well. As th...