Serial
Episodes
The Preventionist - Ep. 3
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the harm of “better safe than sorry” in cases where abuse is ambiguous? One mother’s story is our answer to that question. Our newest p...
The Preventionist - Ep. 2
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One pediatrician’s path to Pennsylvania, and the rise of a powerful new field in child medicine. Our newest podcast, “The Preventionist” is out ...
The Preventionist - Ep. 1
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The story of how this extraordinary situation in the Lehigh Valley came to light — because it almost didn’t. Our newest podcast, “The Prevention...
The Preventionist - Trailer
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 2023, reporter Dyan Neary received a tip about a problematic doctor in Pennsylvania. Families were claiming that when they sought med...
The Retrievals S02 Episode 2: The Speech
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What went wrong with Clara’s delivery? And can Heather get doctors to talk about it? Our newest podcast, “The Retrievals, Season 2” is out now. ...
The Retrievals S02 Episode 1: The Case
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 wo...
The Retrievals, Season 2 - Trailer
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 aw...
The Good Whale - Ep. 2
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 l...
The Good Whale - Ep. 1
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
The Good Whale - Trailer
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Serial S04 - Ep. 2: The Special Project
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2002, an elite interrogation team secretly staged Guantánamo’s most elaborate intel operation — to try to get a single detainee to talk. Our n...
Serial S04 - Ep. 1: Poor Baby Raul
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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. Our ne...
Serial S04 - Trailer
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Guantánam...
The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 2
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 sh...
The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 1
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 fo...
The Kids of Rutherford County - Trailer
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For over a decade, one Tennessee county arrested and illegally jailed hundreds, maybe thousands, of children. A four-part narrative series reveals how...
The Retrievals - Ep. 2
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The patients know what happened to them. Now they learn who did it. The story of the nurse whose own pain was also unseen. Our newest podcast, “The ...
The Retrievals - Ep. 1
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Patients at a fertility clinic experience excruciating, unexpected pain. For months the reason for that pain remains hidden. Then they get a letter fr...
The Retrievals - Trailer
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 2
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 pol...
The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 1
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Coldest Case In Laramie - Trailer
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
We Were Three - Ep. 2
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel retraces how her family, over decades, fell apart and came back together. Our newest podcast, “The Retrievals, Season 2” is out now....
We Were Three - Ep. 1
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel goes back to California, to the place where she grew up and where her brother and father died, to find answers. Our newest podcast, “The ...
We Were Three - Trailer
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A three-part series from This American Life producer Nancy Updike. When Rachel McKibbens’s father and brother died suddenly last fall, two weeks apa...
The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 2
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 prob...
The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 1
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A strange letter appears outlining a plot by Islamic extremists to infiltrate Birmingham schools. Hamza and Brian visit the supposed mastermind of the...
The Trojan Horse Affair - Trailer
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Improvement Association - Ep. 2
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 spec...
The Improvement Association - Ep. 1
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Following a notorious case of election fraud in Bladen County, North Carolina, in 2018, the reporter Zoe Chace gets an invitation from Horace Munn, th...
The Improvement Association - Trailer
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to the trailer for our newest show, "The Improvement Association." From Serial Productions and The New York Times, hosted by Zoe Chace. Our n...
Nice White Parents - Ep. 2
20 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chana Joffe-Walt searches the New York City Board of Education archives for more information about the School for International Studies, which was ori...
Nice White Parents - Ep. 1
20 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 S...
S-Town - Chapter II
20 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“Has anybody called you?” Our newest podcast, “The Retrievals, Season 2” is out now. Search for it wherever you get your podcasts, or follow i...
S-Town - Chapter I
20 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“If you keep your mouth shut, you’ll be surprised what you can learn.” Our newest podcast, “The Retrievals, Season 2” is out now. Search for...
Serial S03 - Ep. 2: You’ve Got Some Gauls
20 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When a judge believes he knows you better than you know yourself. Our newest podcast, “The Retrievals, Season 2” is out now. Search for it whereve...
Serial S03 - Ep. 1: A Bar Fight Walks into the Justice Center
20 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A young woman at a bar is slapped on the butt. So why’s she the one in jail? Our newest podcast, “The Retrievals, Season 2” is out now. Search f...
Serial S02 - Ep. 2: The Golden Chicken
17 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
On the move with Bergdahl, the Taliban slip past the U.S. Army’s massive effort to find him. During those days and weeks, each side is asking, what ...
Serial S02 - Ep. 1: DUSTWUN
10 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In the middle of the night, Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl grabs a notebook, snacks, water, some cash. Then he quietly slips off a remote U.S. Army outpost in ea...
Serial S01 - Ep. 2: The Breakup
03 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Their relationship began like a storybook high-school romance: a prom date, love notes, sneaking off to be alone. But unlike other kids at school, the...
Serial S01 - Ep. 1: The Alibi
03 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
It's Baltimore, 1999. Hae Min Lee, a popular high-school senior, disappears after school one day. Six weeks later detectives arrest her classmate and ...