Serial

Serial Productions & The New York Times

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.

Trailer

Trailer2 min 22 sec

All Episodes

This Is the Weirdness

The criminal case against the men accused of planning the Sept. 11 attacks is the one aspect of Guantánamo that would seem to make sense – until you start watching it.

May 16

1 hr 2 min

Two Ledgers

Majid Khan spent years locked away in CIA black sites. What would he tell the world when he finally got the chance to speak?

May 9

1 hr

The Forever Reporter

One reporter has been covering Guantánamo since the day the prison opened. The military would like her to go home now.

May 2

1 hr 2 min

Part 2, Asymmetry

After the worst happens at Guantánamo, the warden tries to explain it to the outside world – and to himself.

Apr 25

56 min 31 sec

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?

Apr 18

54 min 44 sec

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.

Apr 11

50 min 50 sec

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.

Apr 4

1 hr

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.

Mar 28

47 min 9 sec

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.

Mar 28

41 min 11 sec

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.

Mar 21

2 min 22 sec