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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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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

    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.

    • 41 min
    S04 - Ep. 2: The Special Project

    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.

    • 47 min
    S03 - Ep. 1: A Bar Fight Walks into the Justice Center

    S03 - Ep. 1: A Bar Fight Walks into the Justice Center

    A young woman at a bar is slapped on the butt. So why’s she the one in jail?

    • 50 min
    S03 - Ep. 2: You’ve Got Some Gauls

    S03 - Ep. 2: You’ve Got Some Gauls

    When a judge believes he knows you better than you know yourself.

    • 54 min
    S03 - Ep. 3: Misdemeanor, Meet Mr. Lawsuit

    S03 - Ep. 3: Misdemeanor, Meet Mr. Lawsuit

    The smell of raw marijuana + acting nervous + hands in pockets = ?

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4.7 out of 5
678 Ratings

678 Ratings

SillyFilmlover ,

Also interesting for foreigners

Even for me as a European this was really enlightening. The storytelling is excellent and one can feel the years of research. Also I learned a lot about the American school system. It seems not only segregated (in big parts) but extremely competitive and capitalistic. White patents else where act completely different. So it has not only to do with the skin color and the privilege that comes with being white. It has a lot to do with being American and living in an extremely competitive society and weak democracy. How can somebody even ask if a hard working child that sticks to the rules should have the same chances like a less achieving child? The whole assumption is very capitalistic. And how can it be considered as normal that parents with money (or with friends with money) manipulate the curriculum? However this podcast brings up a lot of questions. A big thank you to the team!

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Vicky W.

Serial was the first podcast I ever listened to. I loved everything about it. Fast forward to Adnan’s exoneration, it’s just a story about a self-absorbed White lady who thinks she can sense if someone is a sociopath. Come and get me, I’m at Best Buy.

annapodana ,

Don‘t believe the hype

I don‘t understand why Serial is always quoted as the most important and influential True Crime Podcast with which it all began. There is nothing extraordinary or systemic learnings about the case in Season One or if there are, the reporter fails to tell us. Yet reporter Sarah Koenig reports every detail at lenght. As a listener I just wonder: Why are you telling me this? True Crime reporting which means the detailed reporting of horrific and traumatizing events and personal details of people who can no longer speak for themselves, their friends and families is an extremly sensitive topic. It should only ever exist if it tells us an important story about a systemic problem. Otherwise it is just sensationalism and voyeurism. Which is was it feels like with the case of season one. It is not clear: Is it s case of police incompetence and criminal injustice? Is it a case about violence from men against their former female partners? It is too unclear and you can‘t just make a podcast about: Maybe it‘s this or that, that is simply speculation and unfair to the person convicted and the person murdered and their families.
There are far more better podcasts that tell us something beyond the case, for instance „Missing&Murdered: Finding Cleo“ about missing and murdered indigenious women in Canada and the U.S., „Broken Harts“ about the adoption system in the U.S. or „Louder than a riot“ which is not a classic True Crime Podcast but tells straight-foward compelling cases about what goes wrong in the criminal justice system.

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