The Slow Newscast

Last year, a YouTuber attempted to reach an uncontacted tribe on the remote island of North Sentinel, an area that is out of bounds for everyone else on the planet. His bid for content may have been audacious, and illegal, but it’s just the latest in a long line of misguided foreigners attempting to make contact. But do these individuals represent the greatest threat to the tribe? And what do we as a planet stand to lose if contact is made?

Reporter: Xavier Greenwood
Producer: Madeleine Parr
Additional production: Ada Barumé
Artwork: Blythe Walker Sibthorp
Sound design: Dominic Delargy
Editor: Matt Russell
Clip Credits: NBC News, News 10 and News9 Live

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A businessman from Tunbridge Wells is accused of leading a double life. He’s secretly recorded planning a brutal attack with ice picks on behalf of the Chinese state. His story takes a dramatic turn with a high-stakes escape.

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Reporters - Alexi Mostrous and Frankie Vetch
Producer - Jonathan Lewis
Additional production - Amalie Sortland
Sound design - Dominic Delargy
Podcast illustration - Shonagh Rae
Editor - Jasper Corbett

Credits - Voice of America, CBS
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American citizens are recruited to carry out Beijing’s dirty work on home soil. A Florida correctional officer poses as an art dealer, exposing the murky world of transnational repression and China’s shadow war.

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Reporters - Alexi Mostrous and Frankie Vetch
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Alexi goes in search of the “long arm” of the Chinese state following a series of attacks and bounties on British soil. He uncovers a coordinated campaign of fear that has left dissidents feeling unsafe in the UK – and asks what British authorities are doing to protect them.

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Reporters - Alexi Mostrous and Frankie Vetch
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Editor - Jasper Corbett

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Every year babies are abandoned by their parents. Following a long reporting project exploring the story of one foundling on a search for her biological parents, Alexi Mostrous asks, 'why do mothers abandon babies?'. To try and make sense of these complicated, often hidden stories, he's joined by the series reporter Lucy Greenwell and the series' producer Katie Gunning.

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