The Walkers: The real Salt Path
The Slow Newscast
Alice Sandelson
4.6 • 894 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In a small town in north Wales, an alleged theft at a local estate agents plants the seeds for a global blockbuster. To listen to episode two, just search for Tortoise Investigates wherever you get your podcasts.
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Credits:
Reporter - Chloe Hadjimatheou
Additional reporting - James Urquhart
Producer - Matt Russell
Music supervision & sound design - Karla Patella
Artwork - Lola Williams
Executive Producer - Jasper Corbett
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| 0:00.0 | The Observer. |
| 0:10.1 | Hello, it's Matt, and you're listening to the slow newscast from The Observer. |
| 0:14.4 | This week, The Walk that became a blockbuster. |
| 0:18.2 | You may remember back in the summer an episode about the memoir, The Salt Path, |
| 0:22.8 | and its true origin story. Well, it turns out that really was just to start, because |
| 0:29.0 | reporter Chloe Hachma Theo kept finding out new and remarkable details showing the deception |
| 0:34.8 | by the author Rainer Wyn might go even deeper than she first thought. |
| 0:38.3 | The full story of what did. Or rather, doesn't happen, is now told over a seven-part series. |
| 0:45.3 | It's a tale of lies, theft and love. |
| 0:49.3 | As always with our series, we are publishing the first episode in the slow newscast feed. For some listeners, |
| 0:55.4 | that story may already be familiar. But if you search for Tortus Investigates, you'll find |
| 1:00.9 | episode two is already available to listen to. Episodes will be released regularly over the coming |
| 1:06.2 | months in Tortus Investigates, or you can subscribe to the Observer and listen to all seven episodes now. |
| 1:12.8 | It's a blockbuster story in more ways than one, |
| 1:15.8 | as Chloe will tell. |
| 1:31.4 | You've entered the car park for your destination. |
| 1:35.2 | 2025 was a weird year for me. |
| 1:38.9 | Most of it was spent following one tip-off. |
| 1:42.9 | I get a lot of these tip-offs working in investigations, |
| 1:46.8 | and I can tell you they rarely lead to a story. |
| 1:48.4 | They hardly ever pan out. |
| 1:53.4 | But this one, the one that came to me last spring, was different. |
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