Ceri worked for many years at the BBC where he was the longest-serving editor of the Today programme and, later, editor of Panorama.
Ceri Thomas

“Tortoise gives me the space to tell stories, and stories change the world.”
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Thursday 18 March 2021
18:30-19:30 GMTWho can save England’s rivers?
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Tuesday 26 January 2021
08:00-09:00 GMTAre big investment platforms making fools of small investors?
Are small investors losing too much of their savings to big platforms?
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Wednesday 13 January 2021
18:30-19:30 GMTFinding Covid’s lost children: how do we bring them back?
We ask experts what happened to the lost of children of Covid, and what we can do about it.
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Tuesday 27 October 2020
07:55-09:00 GMTCovid-19 winners and losers: the food business
What next for the food business in the UK?
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Monday 23 November 2020
18:25-19:30 GMTIs covid cover for corruption?
Is corruption rife in the government? Are our leaders allowing ‘chumocracy’ to flourish and using the pandemic as cover?
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Monday 28 September 2020
18:25-19:30 GMTCan Boris survive?
Boris Johnson’s 80 seat majority should have given him a bulletproof five-year term in office but Covid-19 had other ideas.
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Wednesday 16 September 2020
18:20-19:20 GMTIs everything we know about food wrong? With Professor Tim Spector
One of the world’s leading scientists reveals why so much of the current advice on food and nutrition is dangerously inaccurate.
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Monday 2 November 2020
Trans Rights
JK Rowling and the Unfinished Business
The Tortoise Slow Newscast pieces together the story of the Harry Potter author’s very political, very personal interventions on gender and identity
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Saturday 27 July 2019
How do we begin to fix the mental health crisis?
This was the question we investigated at a pair of recent ThinkIns. Here are the key points of the discussion, as well our thoughts on where we’ll head next
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Monday 2 November 2020
JK Rowling and the Unfinished Business
Why did a famous author wade into the debate over trans rights?