Serial

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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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The Kids of Rutherford Coun...

11.16.2023

The lawyers settle with the county, which agrees to pay the kids who were wrongfully arrested and illegally jailed; the hard part is actually getting the kids paid. From Serial Productions and The New York Times in partnership with ProPublica ...

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11.16.2023 The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 4: Dedicated Public Servants The lawyers settle with the county, which agrees to pay the kids who were wrongfully arrested and illegally jailed; the hard part is actually getting the kids paid. From Serial Productions and The New York Times in partnership with ProPublica ...
11.16.2023 The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 3: Would You Like to Sue the Government? Wes Clark reads a telling line in a police report about how Rutherford County’s juvenile justice system really works. He and his law partner Mark Downton realize they have a massive class action on their hands. From Serial Productions and ...
11.16.2023 The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 2: What the Hell Are You People Doing? A young lawyer named Wes Clark can’t get the Rutherford County juvenile court to let his clients out of detention — even when the law says they shouldn’t have been held in the first place. He’s frustrated and demoralized, until ...
11.16.2023 The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 1: The Egregious Video A police officer in Rutherford County, Tenn., sees a video of little kids fighting, and decides to investigate. This leads to the arrest of 11 kids for watching the fight. The arrests do not go smoothly. From Serial Productions and ...
10.19.2023 The Kids of Rutherford County - Trailer For over a decade, one Tennessee county arrested and illegally jailed hundreds, maybe thousands, of children. A four-part narrative series reveals how this came to be, the adults responsible for it, and the two lawyers, former juvenile delinquents themselves, who ...
08.17.2023 The Retrievals - Ep. 5: The Outcomes In fertility treatment, a successful outcome is defined as a healthy baby. In this story, the outcomes are complicated for everyone involved.
08.17.2023 The Retrievals - Ep. 4: The Clinic What we know about what happened at the clinic.
08.17.2023 The Retrievals - Ep. 3: The Sentence At the nurse’s sentencing hearing, the patients learn a shocking detail that forces them to confront the limits of their compassion.
08.17.2023 The Retrievals - Ep. 2: The Nurse The patients know what happened to them. Now they learn who did it. The story of the nurse whose own pain was also unseen.
08.17.2023 The Retrievals - Ep. 1: The Patients Patients at a fertility clinic experience excruciating, unexpected pain. For months the reason for that pain remains hidden. Then they get a letter from the clinic.
06.22.2023 The Retrievals - Trailer The patients in this story came to the Yale Fertility Center to pursue pregnancy. They began their I.V.F. cycles full of expectation and hope. Then a surgical procedure called egg retrieval caused them excruciating pain. Some of the patients screamed ...
03.30.2023 The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 8 Kim interviews Fred Lamb and takes a fresh look at the case.
03.30.2023 The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 7 Kim takes stock of the evidence against Fred Lamb and gets to the bottom of the stories she’s heard about him — including one from his wife of more than 30 years.
03.30.2023 The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 6 Kim examines the bizarre interrogation that led to Fred Lamb’s arrest.
03.30.2023 The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 5 Kim talks to someone who confessed to Shelli’s murder from a jail in Arizona.
03.30.2023 The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 4 Kim digs into the early stages of the investigation into Shelli’s murder and follows up with old suspects.
03.30.2023 The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 3 Kim heads to Laramie and hears two very different versions of the case against Fred Lamb.
03.30.2023 The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 2 Kim talks to Shelli’s former roommate, who connects Kim with a man who was at the crime scene and has troubling memories about Fred Lamb and the police.
03.30.2023 The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 1 A Times investigative reporter, Kim Barker, revisits the murder of Shelli Wiley — a long-unsolved case from Kim’s time in high school. She reaches out to Shelli’s family to understand why the police arrested a man named Fred Lamb for ...
02.16.2023 The Coldest Case In Laramie - Trailer Kim Barker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times, revisits an unsolved murder that took place while she was in high school in Laramie, Wyoming, nearly 40 years ago. She confronts the conflicting stories people have told ...
10.13.2022 We Were Three - Ep. 3: I Am All That Is Left. Amen. Rachel goes back to California, to the place where she grew up and where her brother and father died, to find answers. For more information on 'We Were Three': https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/podcasts/we-were-three.html
10.13.2022 We Were Three - Ep. 2: Assassin Rachel retraces how her family, over decades, fell apart and came back together. For more information on 'We Were Three': https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/podcasts/we-were-three.html
10.13.2022 We Were Three - Ep. 1: Black Box Rachel goes back to California, to the place where she grew up and where her brother and father died, to find answers. For more information on 'We Were Three': https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/podcasts/we-were-three.html
10.13.2022 We Were Three - Trailer A three-part series from This American Life producer Nancy Updike. When Rachel McKibbens’s father and brother died suddenly last fall, two weeks apart, from Covid, she’d had no idea her father was sick, and no idea her brother was dying. ...
03.18.2022 The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 8 A man banned from working in education in the aftermath of the Trojan Horse letter inspires Brian and Hamza to track down one last witness with him – in Australia. And all three travelers find their faith tested.
03.18.2022 The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 7 Birmingham authorities struggle to explain why they disavowed their own findings about the Trojan Horse plot. But when Brian and Hamza make a discovery deep inside some court documents, everything suddenly makes sense.
03.18.2022 The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 6 Hamza takes a long, hard look at what the government found when it investigated more than 20 majority-Muslim schools in Birmingham. And our two reporters have a confrontation – with each other.
03.18.2022 The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 5 Hamza and Brian learn that the Trojan Horse letter wasn’t the only unsigned letter alleging an extremist operation was afoot in Birmingham. An interview with a couple who lodged complaints against their school starts out cordially, but six hours later, ...
03.18.2022 The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 4 A series of frustrating interviews with Birmingham politicians leaves Brian and Hamza wondering if crucial information about the Trojan Horse letter was kept from officials in London. Then one rainy Friday afternoon, Brian hears back from a government source who ...
03.18.2022 The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 3 In a state of surprise, Hamza and Brian leave a meeting with the man the Trojan Horse letter was first sent to. And they learn about an internal investigation report that local officials have kept hidden, but which they think ...
03.18.2022 The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 2 Hamza and Brian think the source of the Trojan Horse letter might be hiding in plain sight. After learning about the petty personnel dispute that probably gave rise to the letter, they’re even more bewildered about how it ever could ...
03.18.2022 The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 1 A strange letter appears outlining a plot by Islamic extremists to infiltrate Birmingham schools. Hamza and Brian visit the supposed mastermind of the plot, and he tells them he did take over a bunch of schools – just not for ...
02.03.2022 The Trojan Horse Affair - Trailer A mysterious letter detailing a supposed Islamist plot to take over schools shocked Britain in 2014. But who wrote it? From Serial Productions and The New York Times, “The Trojan Horse Affair,” an investigation that became bigger than we ever ...
01.27.2022 The Trojan Horse Affair - Trailer A mysterious letter detailing a supposed Islamist plot to take over schools shocked Britain in 2014. But who wrote it? From Serial Productions and The New York Times, “The Trojan Horse Affair,” an investigation that became bigger than we ever ...
04.28.2021 The Improvement Association - Ep. 5: ‘Democrat, Republican, White, Black, Green’ The Improvement Association PAC’s power in the county is threatened when an unlikely candidate enters the race for county commissioner. Plenty of people outside the PAC now have their own ideas about how to build Black political power here. Zoe ...
04.28.2021 The Improvement Association - Ep. 4: ‘Let Them Pull the Red Wagon’ With the PAC’s reputation suffering because of years of cheating accusations and resentment stirring within its ranks, a prominent member turns against the leadership. Nevertheless, Horace and his closest allies make a bold move by supporting a political upset at ...
04.28.2021 The Improvement Association - Ep. 3: ‘The Ballad of the Nursing Home Ballots’ Zoe delves into one of the most serious allegations against the Bladen Improvement PAC: an accusation about stealing votes from vulnerable people that goes back 10 years. In trying to track down the veracity of this particularly persistent rumor, she ...
04.28.2021 The Improvement Association - Ep. 2: ‘Where Is Your Choice?’ Zoe talks to people in the county who believe the Bladen Improvement PAC has been cheating for years. She tries to get beyond the rumors and into specifics, and comes face to face with the intense suspicion and scrutiny leveled ...
04.28.2021 The Improvement Association - Ep. 1: ‘The Big Shadoo’ Following a notorious case of election fraud in Bladen County, North Carolina, in 2018, the reporter Zoe Chace gets an invitation from Horace Munn, the leader of the Bladen County Improvement Association PAC, a Black political advocacy group whose name ...
03.30.2021 The Improvement Association - Trailer Listen to the trailer for our newest show, "The Improvement Association." From Serial Productions and The New York Times, hosted by Zoe Chace.
08.20.2020 Nice White Parents - Ep. 5: ‘We Know It When We See It’ An unexpected last chapter. Some white parents start behaving differently.
08.20.2020 Nice White Parents - Ep. 4: ‘Here’s Another Fun Thing You Can Do’ Is it possible to limit the power of white parents?
08.20.2020 Nice White Parents - Ep. 3: ‘This Is Our School, How Dare You?’ We saw what happens when white families come into the school. What happens when they stay out?
08.20.2020 Nice White Parents - Ep. 2: ‘I Still Believe in It’ White parents in the 1960s fought to be part of a new, racially integrated school. Where’d they go?
08.20.2020 Nice White Parents - Ep. 1: The Book of Statuses A group of parents take one big step together.
07.23.2020 Introducing: Nice White Parents We have a new show! Here’s a sneak peek of Nice White Parents, a new limited series about building a better school system, and what gets in the way. Coming July 30 from Serial Productions, brought to you by The ...
11.20.2018 S-Town - Chapter VII “You’re beginning to figure it out now, aren’t you?”
11.20.2018 S-Town - Chapter VI “Since everyone around here thinks I’m a queer anyway.”
11.20.2018 S-Town - Chapter V “Nobody’ll ever change my mind about it.”
11.20.2018 S-Town - Chapter IV “If anybody could find it, it would be me.”

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The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 4: Dedicated Public Servants

The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 3: Would You Like to Sue the Government?

The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 2: What the Hell Are You People Doing?

The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 1: The Egregious Video

The Kids of Rutherford County - Trailer

The Retrievals - Ep. 5: The Outcomes

The Retrievals - Ep. 4: The Clinic

The Retrievals - Ep. 3: The Sentence

The Retrievals - Ep. 2: The Nurse

The Retrievals - Ep. 1: The Patients

The Retrievals - Trailer

The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 8

The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 7

The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 6

The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 5

The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 4

The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 3

The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 2

The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 1

The Coldest Case In Laramie - Trailer

We Were Three - Ep. 3: I Am All That Is Left. Amen.

We Were Three - Ep. 2: Assassin

We Were Three - Ep. 1: Black Box

We Were Three - Trailer

The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 8

The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 7

The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 6

The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 5

The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 4

The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 3

The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 2

The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 1

The Trojan Horse Affair - Trailer

The Trojan Horse Affair - Trailer

The Improvement Association - Ep. 5: ‘Democrat, Republican, White, Black, Green’

The Improvement Association - Ep. 4: ‘Let Them Pull the Red Wagon’

The Improvement Association - Ep. 3: ‘The Ballad of the Nursing Home Ballots’

The Improvement Association - Ep. 2: ‘Where Is Your Choice?’

The Improvement Association - Ep. 1: ‘The Big Shadoo’

The Improvement Association - Trailer

Nice White Parents - Ep. 5: ‘We Know It When We See It’

Nice White Parents - Ep. 4: ‘Here’s Another Fun Thing You Can Do’

Nice White Parents - Ep. 3: ‘This Is Our School, How Dare You?’

Nice White Parents - Ep. 2: ‘I Still Believe in It’

Nice White Parents - Ep. 1: The Book of Statuses

Introducing: Nice White Parents

S-Town - Chapter VII

S-Town - Chapter VI

S-Town - Chapter V

S-Town - Chapter IV

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