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"Serial" began in 2014 as a spinoff of the public radio show "This American Life." In 2017, we formed Serial Productions when we launched the podcast “S-Town.” Since then, Serial Productions has produced every season of “Serial” along with shows like “Nice White Parents,” “The Trojan Horse Affair,” “The Coldest Case in Laramie,” “The Retrievals” and more. 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.

Episodes (50)

The Retrievals S02 Episode 4: The Solutions

The Retrievals S02 Episode 4: The Solutions

August 07, 2025 45m S14E4
Sometimes you can’t wait for research to tell you what to do — you just have to go ahead and do it. We get back on L&D with Clara, Mindy and Heather. Subscribe now to get early access to this episode.
The Retrievals S02 Episode 3: The Guidelines

The Retrievals S02 Episode 3: The Guidelines

August 07, 2025 54m S14E3
Pain during a cesarean section isn’t a new problem. But for a long time, it’s been a hidden one. In England, a patient named Susanna not only brings the problem to doctors’ attention, but also tries...
The Retrievals S02 Episode 2: The Speech

The Retrievals S02 Episode 2: The Speech

August 07, 2025 46m S14E2
What went wrong with Clara’s delivery? And can Heather get doctors to talk about it?
The Retrievals S02 Episode 1: The Case

The Retrievals S02 Episode 1: The Case

August 07, 2025 47m S14E1
Clara is a labor and delivery nurse, so she has a pretty good idea of what to expect when she delivers her own twins at the same hospital where she works. But she wasn’t prepared for this.
The Retrievals, Season 2 - Trailer

The Retrievals, Season 2 - Trailer

July 10, 2025 4m
C-sections are the most frequently performed major surgeries in the world. So why do so many patients feel severe pain during them? Season 2 of the award-winning podcast “The Retrievals” is an...
The Good Whale - Ep. 6

The Good Whale - Ep. 6

February 27, 2025 35m S13E6
After a month at sea, Keiko pops up near a Norwegian fishing village, causing a stir among the residents and his own team of caretakers. They figure that if they wait until spring, maybe Keiko will...
The Good Whale - Ep. 5

The Good Whale - Ep. 5

February 27, 2025 15m S13E5
Keiko disappears in Icelandic waters, swimming east for four weeks. Unobserved, with no human contact. Since nobody knows what happened to Keiko during that mysterious time, we decided to recreate it...
The Good Whale - Ep. 4

The Good Whale - Ep. 4

February 27, 2025 34m S13E4
A fresh training team takes a hard-line approach and doubles down on breaking Keiko’s bond with humans. By summer it seems to be working, until one day Keiko swims away. This is the moment they’ve all...
The Good Whale - Ep. 3

The Good Whale - Ep. 3

February 27, 2025 41m S13E3
Keiko finally arrives in Iceland, where years of preparation will be put to the test when Keiko gets his first chance to interact with orcas in the wild — something he hasn’t done since he was a calf....
The Good Whale - Ep. 2

The Good Whale - Ep. 2

January 02, 2025 36m S13E2
Keiko has a new tank in Oregon and a dream team of experts that gets him into shape. But soon they start fighting over what a realistic future looks like for this golden retriever of an orca.
The Good Whale - Ep. 1

The Good Whale - Ep. 1

January 02, 2025 46m S13E1
When the movie “Free Willy” is released, word gets out that the star, a killer whale named Keiko, is sick and living in a tiny pool at a Mexican amusement park. An environmentalist sets out to give...
The Good Whale - Trailer

The Good Whale - Trailer

November 07, 2024 2m
After the movie “Free Willy” became a hit, word got out that the star of the film, a killer whale named Keiko, was sick and living in a tiny pool at a Mexican amusement park. Fans were outraged and...
Serial S04 - Ep. 9: This Is the Weirdness

Serial S04 - Ep. 9: This Is the Weirdness

May 16, 2024 1h 2m S4E9
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.
Serial S04 - Ep. 8: Two Ledgers

Serial S04 - Ep. 8: Two Ledgers

May 09, 2024 1h 0m S4E8
Majid Khan spent years locked away in CIA black sites. What would he tell the world when he finally got the chance to speak?
Serial S04 - Ep. 7: The Forever Reporter

Serial S04 - Ep. 7: The Forever Reporter

May 02, 2024 1h 2m S4E7
One reporter has been covering Guantánamo since the day the prison opened. The military would like her to go home now.
Serial S04 - Ep. 6: Part 2, Asymmetry

Serial S04 - Ep. 6: Part 2, Asymmetry

April 25, 2024 56m S4E6
After the worst happens at Guantánamo, the warden tries to explain it to the outside world – and to himself.
Serial S04 - Ep. 5: The Big Chicken, Part 1

Serial S04 - Ep. 5: The Big Chicken, Part 1

April 18, 2024 54m S4E5
A new warden comes to Guantánamo and decides to make some changes. A prison’s a prison, he thinks. How hard could this be?
Serial S04 - Ep. 4: The Honeymooners

Serial S04 - Ep. 4: The Honeymooners

April 11, 2024 50m S4E4
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.
Serial S04 - Ep. 3: Ahmad the Iguana Feeder

Serial S04 - Ep. 3: Ahmad the Iguana Feeder

April 04, 2024 1h 0m S4E3
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.
Serial S04 - Ep. 2: The Special Project

Serial S04 - Ep. 2: The Special Project

March 28, 2024 48m S4E2
In 2002, an elite interrogation team secretly staged Guantánamo’s most elaborate intel operation — to try to get a single detainee to talk.
Serial S04 - Ep. 1: Poor Baby Raul

Serial S04 - Ep. 1: Poor Baby Raul

March 28, 2024 41m S4E1
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.
Serial S04 - Trailer

Serial S04 - Trailer

March 21, 2024 2m
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...
The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 4

The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 4

November 16, 2023 38m S12E4
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...
The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 3

The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 3

November 16, 2023 47m S12E3
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...
The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 2

The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 2

November 16, 2023 34m S12E2
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...
The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 1

The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 1

November 16, 2023 28m S12E1
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...
The Kids of Rutherford County - Trailer

The Kids of Rutherford County - Trailer

October 19, 2023 3m
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,...
The Retrievals - Ep. 5

The Retrievals - Ep. 5

August 17, 2023 53m S11E5
In fertility treatment, a successful outcome is defined as a healthy baby. In this story, the outcomes are complicated for everyone involved.
The Retrievals - Ep. 4

The Retrievals - Ep. 4

August 17, 2023 38m S11E4
What we know about what happened at the clinic.
The Retrievals - Ep. 3

The Retrievals - Ep. 3

August 17, 2023 46m S11E3
At the nurse’s sentencing hearing, the patients learn a shocking detail that forces them to confront the limits of their compassion.
The Retrievals - Ep. 2

The Retrievals - Ep. 2

August 17, 2023 34m S11E2
The patients know what happened to them. Now they learn who did it. The story of the nurse whose own pain was also unseen.
The Retrievals - Ep. 1

The Retrievals - Ep. 1

August 17, 2023 56m S11E1
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.
The Retrievals - Trailer

The Retrievals - Trailer

June 22, 2023 4m
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...
The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 8

The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 8

March 30, 2023 35m S10E8
Kim interviews Fred Lamb and takes a fresh look at the case.
The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 7

The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 7

March 30, 2023 34m S10E7
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.
The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 6

The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 6

March 30, 2023 31m S10E6
Kim examines the bizarre interrogation that led to Fred Lamb’s arrest.
The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 5

The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 5

March 30, 2023 32m S10E5
Kim talks to someone who confessed to Shelli’s murder from a jail in Arizona.
The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 4

The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 4

March 30, 2023 36m S10E4
Kim digs into the early stages of the investigation into Shelli’s murder and follows up with old suspects.
The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 3

The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 3

March 30, 2023 28m S10E3
Kim heads to Laramie and hears two very different versions of the case against Fred Lamb.
The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 2

The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 2

March 30, 2023 24m S10E2
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.
The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 1

The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 1

March 30, 2023 24m S10E1
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...
The Coldest Case In Laramie - Trailer

The Coldest Case In Laramie - Trailer

February 16, 2023 4m
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....
We Were Three - Ep. 3

We Were Three - Ep. 3

October 13, 2022 44m S9E3
Rachel goes back to California, to the place where she grew up and where her brother and father died, to find answers.
We Were Three - Ep. 2

We Were Three - Ep. 2

October 13, 2022 51m S9E2
Rachel retraces how her family, over decades, fell apart and came back together.
We Were Three - Ep. 1

We Were Three - Ep. 1

October 13, 2022 44m S9E1
Rachel goes back to California, to the place where she grew up and where her brother and father died, to find answers.
We Were Three - Trailer

We Were Three - Trailer

October 13, 2022 3m
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...
The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 8

The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 8

March 18, 2022 47m S8E8
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...
The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 7

The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 7

March 18, 2022 50m S8E7
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...
The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 6

The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 6

March 18, 2022 1h 4m S8E6
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. Our...
The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 5

The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 5

March 18, 2022 1h 0m S8E5
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...

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