Serial
Serial is a podcast from Serial Productions, a New York Times company, hosted by Sarah Koenig. Serial unfolds one story - a true story - over the course of a whole season. The show follows the plot and characters wherever they lead, through many surprising twists and turns. Sarah won't know what happens at the end of the story until she gets there, not long before you get there with her. Each week she'll bring you the latest chapter, so it's important to listen in, starting with Episode 1. New episodes are released on Thursday mornings.
Serial is a podcast from Serial Productions, a New York Times company, hosted by Sarah Koenig. Serial unfolds one story - a true story - over the course of a whole season. The show follows the plot and characters wherever they lead, through many surprising twists and turns. Sarah won't know what happens at the end of the story until she gets there, not long before you get there with her. Each week she'll bring you the latest chapter, so it's important to listen in, starting with Episode 1. New episodes are released on Thursday mornings.
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The Improvement Association - Chap 5
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 examines what this election could mean for the PAC’s future.
28 Apr 2021
48 MINS
48:50
28 Apr 2021
The Improvement Association - Chap 4
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 the center of the county.
28 Apr 2021
51 MINS
51:02
28 Apr 2021
The Improvement Association - Chap 3
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 comes to understand how and why election cheating allegations are so sticky.
28 Apr 2021
39 MINS
39:37
28 Apr 2021
The Improvement Association - Chap 2
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 against the organization. In the middle of another election, Zoe goes out with members of the PAC to watch how they operate and try to make sense of all these allegations against them.
28 Apr 2021
44 MINS
44:12
28 Apr 2021
The Improvement Association - Chap 1
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 was dragged into the scandal. Horace asks Zoe to come down and investigate for herself and find out who is really cheating.
28 Apr 2021
44 MINS
44:13
28 Apr 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.
30 Mar 2021
03 MINS
03:37
30 Mar 2021
Nice White Parents - Ep. 5
Chana has traced the history of the school from its founding and come to the present. But now: One unexpected last chapter. Last year, the school district for BHS mandated a change in the zoning process to ensure all middle schools would be racially integrated. No longer can white families hoard resources in a few select schools. Black and Latino parents have been demanding this change since the late 1950s. The courts have mandated it. Chana asks: How did this happen? And is this a blueprint for real, systemic change?
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20 Aug 2020
52 MINS
52:24
20 Aug 2020
Nice White Parents - Ep. 4
Public schools are inequitable because the school systems are maniacally loyal to white families. We can’t have equitable public education unless schools limit the disproportionate power of white parents. But is that even possible? Chana finds two schools that are trying to do just that, and both are actually inside the 293 building. One is downstairs in the basement, where a charter school called Success Academy opened about 7 years ago. The other is upstairs at BHS, the newly renamed SIS.
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20 Aug 2020
48 MINS
48:54
20 Aug 2020
Nice White Parents - Ep. 3
Chana Joffe-Walt explores how white parents can shape a school — even when they aren’t there.
She traces the history of I.S. 293, now the Boerum Hill School for International Studies, from the 1980s through the modern education reforms of the 2000s. In the process, Chana talks to alumni who loved their school and never questioned why it was on the edge of a white neighborhood. To them, it was just where everyone went. But she also speaks to some who watched the school change over the years and questioned whether a local community school board was secretly plotting against 293.
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20 Aug 2020
45 MINS
45:04
20 Aug 2020
Nice White Parents - Ep. 2
Chana Joffe-Walt searches the New York City Board of Education archives for more information about the School for International Studies, which was originally called I.S. 293.
In the process, she finds a folder of letters written in 1963 by mostly white families in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. They are asking for the board to change the proposed construction of the school to a site where it would be more likely to be racially integrated.
It’s less than a decade after Brown v. Board of Education, amid a growing civil rights movement, and the white parents writing letters are emphatic that they want an integrated school. They get their way and the school site changes — but after that, nothing else goes as planned.
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20 Aug 2020
51 MINS
51:53
20 Aug 2020
Nice White Parents - Ep. 1
It’s 2015 and one Brooklyn middle school is about to receive a huge influx of new students.
Reporter Chana Joffe Walt follows what happens when the School for International Studies’s 6th grade class swells from 30 mostly Latino, Black and Middle Eastern students, to a class of 103 —an influx almost entirely driven by white families.
Everyone wants “what’s best for the school” but it becomes clear that they don’t share the same vision of what “best” means.
For more information about this show, visit [nytimes.com/nicewhiteparents] (https://nytimes.com/nicewhiteparents)
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20 Aug 2020
1 HR 01 MINS
1:01:20
20 Aug 2020
S03 Episode 09: Some Time When Everything Has Changed
The state of Ohio decides where Joshua belongs.![image] (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/serialpodcast/~4/WH50mQO256w)
15 Nov 2018
48 MINS
48:04
15 Nov 2018
S03 Episode 08: A Madman’s Vacation
A teenager decides to cooperate.![image] (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/serialpodcast/~4/gQKmC1JZJGI)
08 Nov 2018
1 HR 03 MINS
1:03:04
08 Nov 2018
S03 Episode 07: The Snowball Effect
If you listen closely to the trash-talking, you start to get the message.![image] (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/serialpodcast/~4/ZcVf2VfMru4)
25 Oct 2018
53 MINS
53:21
25 Oct 2018
S03 Episode 06: You in the Red Shirt
Life after you put a cop in jail.![image] (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/serialpodcast/~4/j49U57MRnos)
18 Oct 2018
49 MINS
49:29
18 Oct 2018
S03 Episode 05: Pleas Baby Pleas
Don’t tell the judges, but the prosecutors have the most power in the building.![image] (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/serialpodcast/~4/Gfua2bw4h8U)
11 Oct 2018
58 MINS
58:42
11 Oct 2018
S03 Episode 04: A Bird in Jail Is Worth Two on the Street
What happens when the right evidence points to the wrong man?![image] (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/serialpodcast/~4/YyYZKUKM7Zk)
04 Oct 2018
58 MINS
58:35
04 Oct 2018
S03 Episode 03: Misdemeanor, Meet Mr. Lawsuit
The smell of raw marijuana + acting nervous + hands in pockets = ?![image] (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/serialpodcast/~4/cRhY_mxgaYA)
27 Sep 2018
1 HR 00 MINS
1:00:35
27 Sep 2018
S03 Episode 02: You’ve Got Some Gauls
When a judge believes he knows you better than you know yourself.![image] (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/serialpodcast/~4/x0jLdwIFVuE)
20 Sep 2018
54 MINS
54:55
20 Sep 2018
S03 Episode 01: A Bar Fight Walks into the Justice Center
A young woman at a bar is slapped on the butt. So why’s she the one in jail?![image] (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/serialpodcast/~4/ACPCX9QWrYs)
20 Sep 2018
50 MINS
50:33
20 Sep 2018
S02 Episode 11: Present for Duty
The Season Two finale: What is Bowe’s fault, and what isn’t?![image] (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/serialpodcast/~4/ER74kTeBpU4)
31 Mar 2016
1 HR 03 MINS
1:03:52
31 Mar 2016
S02 Episode 10: Thorny Politics
Are you hearing what I’m hearing?![image] (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/serialpodcast/~4/oHPb3mkRkX4)
17 Mar 2016
50 MINS
50:27
17 Mar 2016
S02 Episode 09: Trade Secrets
You don’t make peace with your friends. ![image] (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/serialpodcast/~4/BvQ0mhztMCs)
03 Mar 2016
47 MINS
47:43
03 Mar 2016
S02 Episode 08: Hindsight, Part 2
Woulda, coulda, shoulda…![image] (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/serialpodcast/~4/4G-PlKo8KQw)
19 Feb 2016
35 MINS
35:28
19 Feb 2016
S02 Episode 07: Hindsight, Part 1
It makes sense if you’re Bowe Bergdahl.![image] (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/serialpodcast/~4/xFiGWl0XK1Y)
18 Feb 2016
36 MINS
36:50
18 Feb 2016
S01 Update: Day 03, Adnan Syed’s Hearing
February 2016: Sarah Koenig ducks back into the Adnan Syed case for a few days. There’s a hearing in Baltimore—a court proceeding that’s been nearly sixteen years in the making. Syed’s attorney will introduce new evidence, and present a case for why his conviction should be overturned. Sarah and producer Dana Chivvis will discuss what happens, day by day.![image] (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/serialpodcast/~4/KRxuh5iVh_A)
06 Feb 2016
14 MINS
14:12
06 Feb 2016