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The Walkers: The real Salt Path

At its heart the Salt Path is a simple tale of a couple embarking on a 630-mile trek in the face of stark adversity. But then Chloe Hadjimatheou received a tip-off that the memoir may not be as “unflinchingly honest” as it claimed to be. How far can you bend the truth before it begins to break?

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The Slow Newscast

Our weekly investigative show

Your best baby

45 mins • S1, E351

Rogue Brits: The Orthobros

17 mins • S1, E350

Rogue Brits: Fighting for Putin

39 mins • S1, E349

Stephen Miller’s America

45 mins • S1, E348

The News Meeting

What should lead the news and why?

The new supreme leader of Iran

26 mins • S1, E319

How is Shabana Mahmood shaking up the immigration and asylum system?

30 mins • S1, E318

The aftermath of the bombing on Iran

26 mins • S1, E317

The rise of looksmaxxing

28 mins • S1, E316

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We Have Notes

Join writers Liv Little and Miranda Sawyer for the week in culture, annotated

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Daily Sensemaker

One story every day to make sense of the world

The rise and fall of the beer punks

7 mins • S1, E1316

Britain's immigration and asylum shake-up

7 mins • S1, E1315

How Dubai's influencers are reacting to conflict

9 mins • S1, E1314

Trump’s reasons for attacking Iran

9 mins • S1, E1313

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The Observer Book Club

Our new podcast, hosted by The Observer’s literary editor Tom Gatti, will bring live author conversations held in the newsroom to listeners for the first time. Be transported to the live experience where ideas, debate and the power of storytelling come alive

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Investigations

Discover the best of our award-winning series that will keep you hooked. From stories of deception, to corruption, crime and injustice, this is the best of our narrative journalism.