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Serial returns with a history of Guantánamo told by people who lived through key moments in Guantánamo’s evolution, who know things the rest of us don’t about what it’s like to be caught inside an improvised justice system.
Serial Productions makes narrative podcasts whose quality and innovation transformed the medium. “Serial” began in 2014 as a spinoff of the public radio show “This American Life.” In 2020, we joined the New York Times Company. Our shows have reached many millions of listeners and have won nearly every major journalism award for audio, including the first-ever Peabody Award given to a podcast.
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Poor Baby Raul
Maybe you have an idea in your head about what it was like to work at Guantánamo, one of the most notorious prisons in the world. Think again.
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The Special Project
In 2002, an elite interrogation team secretly staged Guantánamo’s most elaborate intel operation — to try to get a single detainee to talk.
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Ahmad the Iguana Feeder
An Arabic-speaking airman is sent to Guantánamo to translate, and soon finds himself at the center of a major scandal. Part 1: Suspicion swallows evidence.
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The Honeymooners
The case against a young airman gets even weirder when the government pulls in two fresh investigators. Part 2: A bride, an FBI agent, and a polygraph machine.
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The Big Chicken, Part 1
A new warden comes to Guantánamo and decides to make some changes. A prison’s a prison, he thinks. How hard could this be?
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Part 2, Asymmetry
After the worst happens at Guantánamo, the warden tries to explain it to the outside world – and to himself.
Customer Reviews
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When I listened to season one of Serial, I fell in love with it, as well as the entire true crime genre, and my love of true crime is unending, but, I was very dissatisfied when I found out that the other seasons of Serial deviated from the investigative theme of the first season, but, all in all, even though most of the show isn't what I expected, Serial was still a wonderful experience, I would definitely recommend it.
Serial Season 4
You can tell the host had an agenda and spent the entire podcast bashing the military.
My First Podcast
I had the tv on while I was cleaning the house. I heard whatever was on say, Woodlawn, MD. I worked in that town, at the time, so it piqued my interest. I sat down to watch whatever show. It was an HBO documentary on a murder that had happened there in the 90’s. Adnan Syed was convicted and in jail. I started combing the web for any info I could find. I stumbled on Serial and their first season was about this murder. I had never listened to a podcast before. I listened to Sarah Keonig’s cadence…the way she stopped momentarily to bring attention to her point. I was hooked. I have since tried listening to other podcasts, but I just can’t get into them. Sarah is a good story teller, as well as most of the others on her team. Sarah, you ruined it for me!