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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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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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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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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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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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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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Part 2, Asymmetry
After the worst happens at Guantánamo, the warden tries to explain it to the outside world – and to himself.
Customer Reviews
Serial Season 4
Wow, eye opening for those of us who have forgotten the entire episode in history. To be fair I wasn’t completely concerned about the torture after all we were attacked and need answers, but ultimately, as a human being torture is horrible and I believe (I don’t have the reference)it’s been proven that torture doesn’t work. We have to be better than that, but my perspective is not affected by losing someone in 9/11/2001.
It’s complicated and we don’t seem to be able to close this chapter for the victims, the victims families and the perpetrators of the day.
We have been spoiled or lucky or both that we haven’t been attacked on our soil since December 7, 1941.
I know this, not all people are bad regardless of country, culture, religion, etc. It’s a pretty basic concept, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”.
The folks at serial have delivered in this series!
Thank you!
Season 1
Absolutely brilliant research and unbiased review. This is how investigative journalism should be. I’m sure Sarah is as liberal as they come (which is ideologically disgusting to me) however I will follow her work due to her unbiased search for the truth. Great job Sarah, your season has restored my faith in journalism. Excellent investigative work!!!!
Terrorist Sympathizers
Honestly, what is with these people? Their reporting would have you think these are innocent civilians being imprisoned. They seem to be forgetting these are evil people who have done evil things and submit themselves to evil regimes, and are happy to protect the regime even after being captured! Between Adnan, Bergdahl, and this, why don’t you just go ahead and say you hate justice? Ridiculously tone-deaf and irresponsible reporting. Throw the whole thing away.