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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.

    • 2 min
    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
    S04 - Ep. 3: Ahmad the Iguana Feeder

    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.

    • 1 hr
    S04 - Ep. 4: The Honeymooners

    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.

    • 50 min
    S04 - Ep. 5: The Big Chicken, Part 1

    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?

    • 54 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
156 Ratings

156 Ratings

Ciebe ,

Very engaging!

Extremely engaging podcast that I chanced upon in 2023. As a South Asian, my heart goes out to Adnan Syed of S1. But I’m also left wondering if he did it or not, or if he was an unfortunate victim of xenophobia. Yet to hear the other seasons, and I’m sure they’re great.

Aavaz mohammed ,

Season 1 - Adnan syed

If ur here to listen to the podcast after the release of Adnan syed and wanna catch up listen to season 1 its mixed up with other stories so look for season one .

Emma Sak ,

Emma

i swear, u guys r awesome! i cut one star, sorry, im a crime lover partly coz of the complex solutions they provide u at the end. deprived of that on this show. if even one or two of these crimes had solutions, boy, this show would rock. but i understand; these r real stories soo…can’t be helped really.
and of course, if the quality of the audio tapes could be better. i feel like they’re crucial to the case but can’t make them out coz they’re a bit unclear. again i understand they’ve been recorded on a mobile phone, hence the unclarity.
im not tryna point out ur bad points. seriously guys, great work!

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