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Serial Productions & The New York Times
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Our new podcast, “The Good Whale,” is out now. Search for it wherever you get your podcasts, or follow it here: https://lnk.to/good-whale

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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Episodes

The Good Whale - Ep. 6

The Good Whale - Ep. 6

2025-01-02

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 swim off again with a wild pod. If they can all just make it to spring.

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The Good Whale - Ep. 5

The Good Whale - Ep. 5

2025-01-02

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 — as a musical. From Keiko’s perspective, naturally.

Watch the music video for "The Ballad of Keiko" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1k1TQ2Lh0o

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The Good Whale - Ep. 4

The Good Whale - Ep. 4

2025-01-02

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 been waiting for.

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The Good Whale - Ep. 3

The Good Whale - Ep. 3

2025-01-02

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. It does not go according to plan.

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The Good Whale - Ep. 2

The Good Whale - Ep. 2

2025-01-02

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.

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35:19
The Good Whale - Ep. 1

The Good Whale - Ep. 1

2025-01-02

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 fans what they want: their favorite celebrity orca back in the sea.

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The Good Whale - Trailer

The Good Whale - Trailer

2024-11-07

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.

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Serial S04 - Ep. 9: This Is the Weirdness

Serial S04 - Ep. 9: This Is the Weirdness

2024-05-16

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.

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01:02:08
Serial S04 - Ep. 8: Two Ledgers

Serial S04 - Ep. 8: Two Ledgers

2024-05-09

Majid Khan spent years locked away in CIA black sites. What would he tell the world when he finally got the chance to speak?

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01:00:37
Serial S04 - Ep. 7: The Forever Reporter

Serial S04 - Ep. 7: The Forever Reporter

2024-05-02

One reporter has been covering Guantánamo since the day the prison opened. The military would like her to go home now.

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01:02:24
Serial S04 - Ep. 6: Part 2, Asymmetry

Serial S04 - Ep. 6: Part 2, Asymmetry

2024-04-25

After the worst happens at Guantánamo, the warden tries to explain it to the outside world – and to himself.

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

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

2024-04-18

A new warden comes to Guantánamo and decides to make some changes. A prison’s a prison, he thinks. How hard could this be?

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54:44
Serial S04 - Ep. 4: The Honeymooners

Serial S04 - Ep. 4: The Honeymooners

2024-04-11

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.

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50:50
Serial S04 - Ep. 3: Ahmad the Iguana Feeder

Serial S04 - Ep. 3: Ahmad the Iguana Feeder

2024-04-04

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.

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01:00:49
Serial S04 - Ep. 2: The Special Project

Serial S04 - Ep. 2: The Special Project

2024-03-28

In 2002, an elite interrogation team secretly staged Guantánamo’s most elaborate intel operation — to try to get a single detainee to talk.

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48:45
Serial S04 - Ep. 1: Poor Baby Raul

Serial S04 - Ep. 1: Poor Baby Raul

2024-03-28

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.

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41:33
Serial S04 - Trailer

Serial S04 - Trailer

2024-03-21

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 about what it’s like to be caught inside an improvised justice system. Episodes 1 and 2 arrive Thursday, March 28.

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02:22
The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 4

The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 4

2023-11-16

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 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.

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38:41
The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 3

The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 3

2023-11-16

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 their hands.

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.

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47:54
The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 2

The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 2

2023-11-16

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.

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