How to disappear
The Slow Newscast
Alice Sandelson
4.6 • 894 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In the UK, a person is reported missing every 90 seconds. But how in a society of internet, phones and social media is it so easy to go missing? This is the story of two men...and how sometimes people don't even realise they've gone missing.
Reporter: Francisco Garcia
Producer: Matt Russell
Sound design: Dominic Delargy
Artwork: Lola Williams
Editor: Jasper Corbett
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| 1:22.0 | Hello, it's Matt here. I oversee the slow newscast, and I produced the occasional episode, including today's. This week on the slow newscast and I produced the occasional episode, including today's. |
| 1:29.3 | This week on the slow newscast from the Observer, How to Disappear. |
| 1:35.3 | Every day we're leaving a messy digital trail on the internet through our phones and social media. |
| 1:43.3 | So to vanish without a trace seems to fly in the face of everything that were told. |
| 1:49.0 | But every day, hundreds of people in the UK are seemingly doing just that. |
| 1:54.0 | So Francisco Garcia wanted to find out how. |
| 1:59.0 | It starts with two cousins, over to Francisco. |
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