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Reboot Republic - Rory Hearne by Tortoise Shack Media

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Reboot Republic - Rory Hearne by Tortoise Shack Media

Tortoise Shack Media

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Reboot Republic is the innovative Podcast that delves beyond the headlines and soundbites and pulls up the roots of our Social Crises to unearth progressive solutions.

Media Club Plus

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Friends at the Table

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Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us, as always we are brought to you by Friends at the Table. This season, we're watching 2011's Hunter x Hunter, based on the manga by Yoshihiro Togashi

Tortoise Investigates

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Tortoise Investigates

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The Tortoise Investigates feed is the home of the best of our investigative podcast series, where you can find all our chart-topping, award-winning stories in one place. For the premium Tortoise listening experience, curated by our journalists, download the free Tortoise audio app. For early and ad-free access to all our investigative series and daily and weekly shows, subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts. If you’d like to further support slow journalism and help us build a different kin ...

The Slow Newscast

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The Slow Newscast

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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 Johnson, to true crime and injustice and real life mysteries, The Slow Newscast team is devoted to narrative investigations. From a startup newsroom with a different approach to journalism. For the premium Tortoise listening experience, curated by our journalists, download the free Tortoise ...

Trendy

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Trendy

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Welcome to Trendy, the new weekly show from Tortoise. Britain’s top pollster, Sir John Curtice, and former Downing Street advisor, Rachel Wolf, explore the key political, social and economic trends that help shape what voters think and what politicians do. New episodes drop every Thursday. Follow the feed today to not miss an episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hoaxed

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Hoaxed

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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 headed by their father and by parents and teachers at their school in the wealthy London suburb of Hampstead. The story was a lie. But on the internet, that didn't matter. Hoaxed is an investigation into one of Britain's most serious-ever conspiracy theories. A story about a modern-day Sa ...

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack

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The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack

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Ireland’s original independent left leaning news, politics, and culture podcast that doesn’t take itself too seriously and still punches well above its weight. Join critically acclaimed & derided hosts, Martin McMahon and Tony Groves as they delve into the news of the day, pull apart the spin and challenge you to be an activist. This is the non-corporate, ad free, non-plastic-podcast reality that the medium is made for. There will be shenanigans!

Sensemaker

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Sensemaker

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The Sensemaker from Tortoise - one story every day to make sense of the world. Tortoise is a newsroom devoted to slow journalism. For the premium Tortoise listening experience, curated by our journalists, download the free Tortoise audio app. For early and ad-free access, subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts. If you’d like to further support slow journalism and help us build a different kind of newsroom, do consider donating to Tortoise at tortoisemedia.com/support-us. Your contributions ...

Into The Dirt

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Into The Dirt

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Listen to all six episodes today. Rob Moore had a successful career in television until one day he ran out of ideas. After a stint as a gardener, a more enticing door was opened for him. He was offered a job in the shadowy world of corporate intelligence - he became a spy. Tasked with working undercover to extract information from an environmental campaign group, Rob Moore says he eventually became sympathetic to the campaigners’ aims. He decided to turn on his employers and support the grou ...

The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

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The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

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To strive is human, to saunter divine. Welcome to The Tortoise - a podcast that digs deep into the power of slow. Brooke McAlary (author of "Slow", "Care" and "Destination Simple") is joined by her husband Ben for a monthly deep dive into the realities of trying to live slow in a world that won't stop racing. On the third Thursday of every month, join Brooke and Ben for an unscripted, unedited, always candid and usually fun conversation about slow living and how embracing our inner tortoise ...

The News Meeting

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The News Meeting

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The News Meeting is a lively, informative and occasionally competitive podcast about what should lead the news and why. Twice a week three journalists compete to convince Tortoise editor James Harding that they've got the top story. James has been editor of The Times newspaper and director of BBC News, which is why it's his job to decide what matters most. Episodes are released every Monday afternoon and Friday morning. Get in touch to tell us about the story you think should lead the news. ...

Three doors down

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Three doors down

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Full series out now Three doors down: a murder, a mother and a thirty year investigation In May 2023 David Boyd was found guilty of the brutal murder in 1992 of seven year-old Nikki Allan. Sharon Henderson, Nikki’s mother, called for a public inquiry into why it had taken the police so long to find and convict her daughter’s murderer. When Nikki was murdered, Sharon was a single mother of four living in Wear Garth, a rundown housing estate in Sunderland. David Boyd lived a few floors above S ...

Pig Iron

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Pig Iron

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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 was really there as a mercenary, a fighter. Others said he was a reckless freelancer, in over his head. And there was another question: was he killed on purpose, or was this another accident of war? From Tortoise and the team behind Sweet Bobby, Pig Iron is a dark adventure in war and jo ...

Glow West Podcast

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Glow West Podcast

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Conversations About Sexual Wellness with Dr. Caroline West

Londongrad: Iran's Hit Squads

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Londongrad: Iran's Hit Squads

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Season 2 of Londongrad: Iran's Hit Squads. Award-winning investigative reporter Paul Caruana Galizia returns to report the story of the foiled assassination attempts on British soil of Iranian nationals. Since January 2022, there has been an attempted assassination or kidnap at least once a month – all ordered by the Iranian government. In this four-part series, Paul will delve into how these attempts unfolded, why they have become so prevalent and who is behind them. It's a story about Iran ...

GNRO Podcast

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GNRO Podcast

Adam Mickelsen

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Welcome to Geek News, Reviews, & Opinions where we talk the week's events in Geek! Follow the podcast on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GeekyNRO/ Twitter: twitter.com/GeekNRO

The Policed Podcast

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The Policed Podcast

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Welcome to Policed, the podcast that seeks to capture the experiences people have with the police, and put those voices front and centre.

Real Money

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Real Money

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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 Tether. Tether is a crypto coin that holds up the entire cryptocurrency industry. There are over 70 billion Tethers in circulation and for every Tether that exists, a dollar should sit in a bank somewhere. But no one has seen the money it claims to have in the bank and now little-kno ...

Mel's Electric Adventure

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Mel's Electric Adventure

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Life and electric cars with comedian, former Great British Bake Off host and Eurovision commentator Mel Giedroyc and journalist Giles Whittell. Join them as they test drive different electric vehicles, discuss how life is going to be changed by the electric revolution and get lost along the way. A new weekly show from Tortoise, launching Wednesday 8 March. Follow the feed to be the first to find out about new episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pint-sized Reptiles Podcast

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Pint-sized Reptiles Podcast

James Lewis, Travis Wyman and Jason Miloradovich

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The herptile community is incredibly diverse. However, most of the media tends to focus on the larger, more "in your face" species. 'Pint-sized Reptiles' is taking a different approach. Join James, Jason, and Travis as they turn our gaze to the smaller herps within the community that often get overshadowed by their larger brethren.

The Backstory with Andrew Neil

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The Backstory with Andrew Neil

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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 episode every Tuesday. Tortoise members get access to a weekly bonus episode every Friday called Inside the Interview where Andrew reflects on the conversations he has with his guests. You'll also get access to more of our journalism, and invites to exclusive events. Hosted on Acast. See ac ...

Left to Die: Escape from the Amarula

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Left to Die: Escape from the Amarula

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When Islamist insurgents attacked a town in Mozambique in March, civilians and foreign contractors raced to a local hotel for safety. Over three agonising days, they waited for a rescue. But no one came. In this extraordinary story of extremism, corruption and bravery, journalist Basia Cummings investigates what happened at the Amarula Hotel, and speaks to the people who were trapped inside – and made it out alive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My Mother’s Murder

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My Mother’s Murder

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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 surname became redundant – she was known simply as Daphne. She stood out as a lone voice in an increasingly hostile environment. She endured arson attacks and arrests, until October 2017, when she was murdered in a car bomb attack. In this series, her son Paul Caruana Galizia, returns home t ...

Visible Women with Caroline Criado Perez

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Visible Women with Caroline Criado Perez

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Caroline Criado Perez has spent years investigating the gender data gap – and how women are simply forgotten in a world designed for men. Her best-selling book, Invisible Women, was published to critical acclaim, and Caroline was inundated with readers sharing their own stories of the “default male”. In her new podcast Caroline investigates what happens next: how can we close the gender data gap and design a world that works for everyone? Caroline will hunt for missing data, get in fights wi ...

The F ’n’ T Show

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The F ’n’ T Show

The F ’n’ T Show

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The F ’n’ T Show is an educational, critical thinking, dialogue-inducing, comedy podcast. Hosted by Fiona and Terynn, we will cover topics everyone will enjoy! Current events, true crime, sports, writing, creating, your favourite movies, television shows, books and so much more! Please tune in and listen to a few episodes and get to know us and what we are all about! We look forward to sharing with you! Theme Song (at beginning and end of podcast) The following music was used for this media ...

To the Point

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To the Point

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A monthly reality-check on the issues Americans care about most. Host Warren Olney draws on his decades of experience to explore the people and issues shaping – and disrupting - our world. How did everything change so fast? Where are we headed? The conversations are informal, edgy and always informative. If Warren's asking, you want to know the answer.

Working Sunday

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Working Sunday

Reuben Ly

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A show about the hard road to success, as a creative entrepreneur. Based in Oakland, CA, host Reuben Ly – a small business owner turned journalist – travels the country capturing the struggle and success of a diverse range of creators. From award-winning chefs, to craft beer producers, to graffiti artists. Each season captures a different local industry, in a particular place. Working Sunday – because when it's your own business – you gotta do it. -- Social @workingsunday Web: http://www.wor ...

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