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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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S04 - Trailer
From Serial Productions and The New York Times, Serial Season 4 is 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. Episodes 1 and 2 arrive Thursday, March 28.
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S04 - Ep. 1: 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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S04 - Ep. 2: 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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S04 - Ep. 3: 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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S04 - Ep. 4: 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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S04 - Ep. 5: 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?
Customer Reviews
S 3
WHERE IS EPISODE 10 OF S3? WHERE DOES JOSHUA GO?!
Privilege at its finest
Had high hopes that serial season 4 wouldn’t be an exercise in American self loathing and terrorism apology. I was wrong.
Shocked to hear the free publicity for terrorists the host gives at the end of episode 2 as she rattles off his book title and X statistics.
Privilege is forgetting what happened on 9/11, and making a 9/11 apology podcast decades later.
Naive journalist’s thought process
I think sometimes one can look at one’s own country and say things are different now in the present because a new government changed the wrongs of the past. Things are only different until they are not. This is where the hosts fail not to put their country up to a mirror. It is naive to think that a white house wouldn’t do it again under the same circumstances. Just a personal note I am a subscriber of the NYT. I think the hosts would do themselves a favour of reading a bit more of their own country’s history during various conflicts to learn how the government of the day bent rules and laws to meet their own needs only to have it revealed much later.