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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
Sarah is very self-satisfied
Very interesting 4th season in regard to the stories but Sarah interrupting people while interviewing them for the sake of saying how confused she is and asking rhetorical questions but really wanting to demonstrate how much deeper she understands everything than everybody else and then she follows up with a voiceover to again highlight this. I actually couldn’t listen because I felt third hand embarrassment for Sarah.
Exceptional
Serial is a great podcast and in the last few days have been listening to season 4. I really enjoyed seasons 2 and 3 but 4 is expectional and brings you into a world that you would that you could not otherwise be able to access-while opening up so many perspectives. It is great journalism.
Illuminating
Really enjoying season 4 Guantanamo - the stories from different perspectives create an eye-opening picture about what has been going on