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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.

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest Serial Productions news: https://bit.ly/3FIOJj9

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    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
    S04 - Ep. 6: Part 2, Asymmetry

    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.

    • 56 min

Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5
74.1K Ratings

74.1K Ratings

Seery1979 ,

Bravo

As always you’ve done a stellar job of explaining an incredibly complicated and emotionally provocative situation. Appreciate the work done to bring us this information.

AB13Z ,

Worth The Listen

As a current long standing military member and someone who definitely sits on the other side of the aisle from the political perspectives of this show, it does make you take a second to think about what they present. In the end I don’t agree with many of their viewpoints in this series, but it was well done.

Jonnyboy4965 ,

Colleen and her cohorts are traitors

9/11 families for a peaceful tomorrow is a horrible organization. They should disband immediately. You don’t represent us, Colleen.

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