Serial

Serial

Serial Productions & The New York Times

Episodes 27
Avg. Duration 29m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.5 (75,062)
Since Oct 2014
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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Our newest podcast, “The Preventionist” is out now. Search for it wherever you get your podcasts. 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 [email protected] "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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Recent Episodes

S16E5 The Idiot - Chapter 5

Mar 26, 2026 28m

Allen will almost certainly be released in a few years. What should M.’s family do with a guy who refuses to own up to his own crime? Can he be re-integrated into the family? Should he be? While M.…

S16E4 The Idiot - Chapter 4

Mar 26, 2026 1h 2m

Allen finally agrees to talk … and talk and talk, for 35 hours of interviews. M. wants to understand Allen on his own terms, to try and figure out how this scion of bohemian intellectuals ended up…

S16E3 The Idiot - Chapter 3

Mar 26, 2026 50m

M. attends Allen’s trial in San Francisco. The FBI’s star witness, an agent who went by “David," plays his undercover recordings of Allen. They reveal how Allen’s scheme to deport Priscilla turned…

S16E2 The Idiot - Chapter 2

Mar 26, 2026 49m

M. seeks out Allen’s ex-wife, Priscilla, who tells her side of the story. It begins with a whirlwind romance but quickly turns to chart Allen’s betrayal: taking her son from Russia and stranding…

S16E1 The Idiot - Chapter 1

Mar 26, 2026 21m

For decades, M. simply disliked Allen. They saw him as a fool, a pompous “international businessman” who bragged about shady deals and drove fancy cars while living in Eastern Europe and Africa. But…

S16 The Idiot - Trailer

Mar 19, 2026 1m Trailer

The New York Times writer M. Gessen is widely known for their award-winning writing about totalitarianism, terrorism and the erosion of human rights. Now, M. is examining a more personal target:…

S15E1 The Preventionist - Ep. 1

Oct 30, 2025 40m

The story of how this extraordinary situation in the Lehigh Valley came to light — because it almost didn’t. Our newest podcast, “The Idiot” is out now. Search for it wherever you get your…

S15 The Preventionist - Trailer

Oct 16, 2025 3m Trailer

In the summer of 2023, reporter Dyan Neary received a tip about a problematic doctor in Pennsylvania. Families were claiming that when they sought medical care for their children, this pediatrician…

S14E1 The Retrievals S02 - Ep. 1

Aug 07, 2025 49m

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. Our newest…

S14 The Retrievals S02 - Trailer

Jul 10, 2025 4m Trailer

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…

S13E1 The Good Whale - Ep. 1

Jan 02, 2025 47m

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…

S13 The Good Whale - Trailer

Nov 07, 2024 2m 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…

S4E1 Serial S04 - Ep. 1: Poor Baby Raul

Mar 28, 2024 42m

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 newest podcast, “The Idiot” is out now. Search for…

S4 Serial S04 - Trailer

Mar 21, 2024 2m Trailer

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…

S12E1 The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 1

Nov 16, 2023 29m

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…

S12 The Kids of Rutherford County - Trailer

Oct 19, 2023 3m 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,…

S11E1 The Retrievals S01 - Ep. 1

Aug 17, 2023 58m

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. Our newest podcast, “The Idiot” is…

S11 The Retrievals S01 - Trailer

Jun 22, 2023 4m 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…

S10E1 The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 1

Mar 30, 2023 25m

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…

S10 The Coldest Case In Laramie - Trailer

Feb 16, 2023 4m 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.…

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Serial has published 27 episodes since October 2014, covering topics in News, Society & Culture.

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