Just Stop TurmOil
The Slow Newscast
Alice Sandelson
4.6 • 894 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The radical climate protest group Just Stop Oil delighted supporters and infuriated opponents in equal measure. But then the government began to crack down on them. So where are they now?
Reporter: David Taylor
Producer: Matt Russell
Artwork: Lola Williams
Sound design: Dominic Delargy
Editor: Jasper Corbett
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| 1:18.9 | Hi, it's Claudia here and you're listening to the slow newscast from The Observer. This week, who killed just stop oil? |
| 1:30.4 | My colleagues David Taylor and Matt Russell investigate how the government and the media cracked down on climate protests and what it means for the future of dissent in the UK. |
| 1:41.5 | Over to David. |
| 1:47.6 | It's a perfect April morning in the Kent countryside. |
| 1:52.3 | The songbirds are out in force |
| 1:54.4 | and walking up a long driveway next to a bank of daffodils |
| 1:58.5 | is a mother with a beaming smile arm in arm with her two grown-up sons. |
| 2:07.6 | Yeah, I know, I've gardened up here. |
| 2:11.6 | This is Lou Lancaster, a former special needs teacher in her 50s. And she's just got out of prison. |
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