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Serial

Serial Productions makes narrative podcasts that have transformed the medium. Sign up for our newsletter at nytimes.com/serialnewsletter to find out about new shows, get behind the scenes stories, and see photos and videos you can’t see on a podcast. To get full access to Serial Productions shows, and to other New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at nytimes.com/podcasts. Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on our shows? Email us at serialshows@nytimes.com "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.

Serial Productions makes narrative podcasts that have transformed the medium. Sign up for our newsletter at nytimes.com/serialnewsletter to find out about new shows, get behind the scenes stories, and see photos and videos you can’t see on a podcast. To get full access to Serial Productions shows, and to other New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at nytimes.com/podcasts. Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on our shows? Email us at serialshows@nytimes.com "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.

 

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The Good Whale - Trailer

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 pleaded for his release. “The Good Whale” tells the story of the wildly ambitious science experiment to return Keiko to the ocean — while the world watched. An epic tale that starts in Mexico and ends in Norway, the six-episode series follows Keiko as he’s transported from country to country, each time landing in the hands of well-intentioned people who believe they know what’s best for him – people who still disagree, decades later, about whether they did the right thing. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at [nytimes.com/podcasts] (https://nytimes.com/podcasts) . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at [nytimes.com/serialnewsletter.] (https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/serial) Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on our shows? Email us at serialshows@nytimes.com ... Read more

07 Nov 2024

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07 Nov 2024


#31

The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 2

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 he makes a friend.  From Serial Productions and The New York Times in partnership with ProPublica and Nashville Public Radio, “The Kids of Rutherford County” is reported and hosted by Meribah Knight, a Peabody-award winning reporter based in the South. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at [nytimes.com/podcasts] (https://nytimes.com/podcasts) . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at [nytimes.com/serialnewsletter.] (https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/serial) Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on our shows? Email us at serialshows@nytimes.com ... Read more

16 Nov 2023

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16 Nov 2023


#30

The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 1

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 The New York Times in partnership with ProPublica and Nashville Public Radio, “The Kids of Rutherford County” is reported and hosted by Meribah Knight, a Peabody-award winning reporter based in the South. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at [nytimes.com/podcasts] (https://nytimes.com/podcasts) . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at [nytimes.com/serialnewsletter.] (https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/serial) Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on our shows? Email us at serialshows@nytimes.com ... Read more

16 Nov 2023

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16 Nov 2023


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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 try to do something about it.   From Serial Productions and The New York Times, “The Kids of Rutherford County” is reported and hosted by Meribah Knight, a Peabody-award winning reporter based in the South. Get it everywhere you get your podcasts on Thursday, October 26th. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at [nytimes.com/podcasts] (https://nytimes.com/podcasts) . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at [nytimes.com/serialnewsletter.] (https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/serial) Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on our shows? Email us at serialshows@nytimes.com ... Read more

19 Oct 2023

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19 Oct 2023


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The Retrievals - Ep. 2

The patients know what happened to them. Now they learn who did it. The story of the nurse whose own pain was also unseen. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at [nytimes.com/podcasts] (https://nytimes.com/podcasts) . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at [nytimes.com/serialnewsletter.] (https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/serial) Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on our shows? Email us at serialshows@nytimes.com ... Read more

17 Aug 2023

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17 Aug 2023


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The Retrievals - Ep. 1

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. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at [nytimes.com/podcasts] (https://nytimes.com/podcasts) . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at [nytimes.com/serialnewsletter.] (https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/serial) Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on our shows? Email us at serialshows@nytimes.com ... Read more

17 Aug 2023

56 MINS

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17 Aug 2023


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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 out in the procedure room. Others called the clinic from home to report pain in the hours that followed. But most of the staff members who fielded the patients’ reports did not know the real reason for the pain, which was that a nurse at the clinic was stealing fentanyl, and replacing it with saline. From Serial Productions and The New York Times, The Retrievals is a five-part narrative series reported by Susan Burton, a veteran staff member at “This American Life” and author of the memoir “Empty.” Susan details the events that unfolded at the clinic, and examines how the patients’ distinct identities informed the way they made sense of what happened to them in the procedure room. The nurse, too, has her own story, about her own pain, that she tells to the court. And then there is the story of how this all could have happened at the Yale clinic in the first place. Throughout, Burton explores the stories we tell about women’s pain. How do we tolerate, interpret and account for it? What happens when pain is minimized or dismissed? Episode 1 of The Retrievals arrives Thursday, June 29th. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at [nytimes.com/podcasts] (https://nytimes.com/podcasts) . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at [nytimes.com/serialnewsletter.] (https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/serial) Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on our shows? Email us at serialshows@nytimes.com ... Read more

22 Jun 2023

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22 Jun 2023


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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. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at [nytimes.com/podcasts] (https://nytimes.com/podcasts) . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at [nytimes.com/serialnewsletter.] (https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/serial) Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on our shows? Email us at serialshows@nytimes.com ... Read more

30 Mar 2023

24 MINS

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30 Mar 2023


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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 Shelli’s murder in 2016, and why prosecutors abruptly dropped the charges against him. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at [nytimes.com/podcasts] (https://nytimes.com/podcasts) . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at [nytimes.com/serialnewsletter.] (https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/serial) Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on our shows? Email us at serialshows@nytimes.com ... Read more

30 Mar 2023

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30 Mar 2023


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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 themselves about the crime because of an unexpected development: the arrest of a former Laramie police officer accused in the murder. All eight episodes of "The Coldest Case in Laramie," a new show from Serial Productions and The New York Times, are available on Thursday, February 23rd wherever you get your podcasts. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at [nytimes.com/podcasts] (https://nytimes.com/podcasts) . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at [nytimes.com/serialnewsletter.] (https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/serial) Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on our shows? Email us at serialshows@nytimes.com ... Read more

16 Feb 2023

04 MINS

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16 Feb 2023


#22

We Were Three - Ep. 2

Rachel retraces how her family, over decades, fell apart and came back together.      To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at [nytimes.com/podcasts] (https://nytimes.com/podcasts) . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at [nytimes.com/serialnewsletter.] (https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/serial) Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on our shows? Email us at serialshows@nytimes.com ... Read more

13 Oct 2022

51 MINS

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13 Oct 2022


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We Were Three - Ep. 1

Rachel goes back to California, to the place where she grew up and where her brother and father died, to find answers.     To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at [nytimes.com/podcasts] (https://nytimes.com/podcasts) . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at [nytimes.com/serialnewsletter.] (https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/serial) Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on our shows? Email us at serialshows@nytimes.com ... Read more

13 Oct 2022

44 MINS

44:24

13 Oct 2022