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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
POSSIBLY A REASON TO INVESTIGATE THE TRANSLATORS?
Always fascinating in topic and development. But please remember - in the wake of 9/11 it was important to track down possible deception and smuggling of classified information out of Gitmo. If it’s found that the suspect is not guilty - great! But we can’t know that without an investigation.
What happened to Serial?
I am going to finish this podcast but this is the second Serial production that makes me question whether Serial is now just about stoking political divide. This podcast weighs opinion 20 some years after the fact. The lack of socio/political context is maddening and the over reliance on the stories of the inmates as fact seems dangerous. Take the inmate that broke after a ploy and then proceeded to divulge hours of information. Unable or unwilling to corroborate that information, they just go back to the guy and he gets to just say he made it all up? Gitmo is undeniably a tough chapter in our recent history, but this entire story just wreaks of we don’t like it, so you shouldn’t either.
Best in the business
These folks are just the best out there, combining the amazing production and storytelling of this american life with top notch investigative talent