
Jess Swinburne
@jbswinburne96
Senior Development Producer, @tortoise [email protected]
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08-12-2017 13:36:22
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New addition: Richard Gadd on taking stage to screen at Abbey Road Studios on the 6th October. Tickets available now from the KITE website - kitefestival.co.uk





The UK’s driving test booking system is broken. What will it take to fix it? Thanks to Lara Olszowska and Camilla Benitz for speaking to me for this episode of the Sensemaker (which definitely has nothing to do with the fact that I just failed my test) open.spotify.com/episode/4L1NLw…

Three years ago, I worked with a small team at Tortoise and Harkirat Kaur Assi to make Sweet Bobby, certainly the strangest and most troubling story I've worked on in 15+ years of journalism. Thanks mainly to Harkirat Kaur Assi's bravery, Sweet Bobby became a global hit and revealed just how

A Brazilian cattle rancher who destroyed large areas of the Amazon has been ordered to pay $50 mil to restore the land he logged. As deforestation rates soar in countries around the world, can we ever reverse them? Jess Swinburne | Tomini Babs Listen: lnk.to/T5g8EaTT





Two Just Stop Oil protestors were arrested after throwing a can of tomato soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers. What do their lengthy sentences tell us about the changing laws around protest in the UK? Jess Swinburne | Casey Magloire | Tomini Babs Listen: lnk.to/0MSV7bTT

The UK’s new justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has pledged to radically reduce the number of women going to prison in England and Wales. Why doesn't the current system work? Phoebe Davis | Jess Swinburne | Casey Magloire Listen to the Sensemaker: lnk.to/ZfYfusTT


I made this podcast with the excellent Matt Russell. The sound design – maybe my favourite ever? – was by Hannah Varrall. Jess Swinburne was the development producer, and Jasper Corbett edited. What a team!

A real honour that our reporting on AI companionship chatbots has made it onto this list Matt Russell Jess Swinburne Tortoise

Having helped out in the early stages, I've been looking forward to the War Game launch for months! Amazing work from The Observer team James Shield, Jess Swinburne Jasper Corbett and Sky News' Deborah Haynes Brace for sleepless nights 😱 podfollow.com/thewargame