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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 - 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?
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S04 - Ep. 6: Part 2, Asymmetry
After the worst happens at Guantánamo, the warden tries to explain it to the outside world – and to himself.
Customer Reviews
Interesting Letdown
Fantastic journalism, interesting to hear multiple viewpoints regardless of how much I disagree with them, however there is some revisionist history to the situation. It’s hard to find the line of where to apply modern ideals to moments in history.
Serial Is Valueless
Season 4 is another example of the bizarre worldview journalists live in. Leave it to a product of the NYT to sympathize with people who committed or conspired to commit mass murder against civilians. All one has to do is watch a single video of 9/11 to remember that these prisoners at Guantanamo were getting off easy relative to the evil the wrought (or attempted to).
And then they wonder why they’re not trusted. They are truly and completely out of touch with both reality and the values of their countrymen.
The best of story-telling and justice-led investigative journalism
This is such a gripping, well-made podcast. Thank you for getting under the hood and humanising people that have suffered so much under the white banner of ‘freedom’. I’m sorry about the ‘terrorist-sympathiser’ comments you’re getting. You’re doing such important work to help change our consciousness, culture, and world. Please keep it up, I’m forever a fan and advocate.