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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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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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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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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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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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. 

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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.

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The patients know what happened to them. Now they learn who did it. The story of the nurse whose own pain was also unseen.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Rachel retraces how her family, over decades, fell apart and came back together.   

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Rachel goes back to California, to the place where she grew up and where her brother and father died, to find answers.

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A three-part series from This American Life producer Nancy Updike. When Rachel McKibbens?s father and brother died suddenly last fall, two weeks apart, from Covid, she?d had no idea her father was sick, and no idea her brother was dying. They were unvaccinated, but the story of what happened started long before that. All three episodes of "We Were Three," a new show from Serial Productions and The New York Times, are available now wherever you get your podcasts.

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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.

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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.

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Listen to the trailer for our newest show, "The Improvement Association."  From Serial Productions and The New York Times, hosted by Zoe Chace.

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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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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.

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?Has anybody called you??

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?If you keep your mouth shut, you?ll be surprised what you can learn.?

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When a judge believes he knows you better than you know yourself.

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A young woman at a bar is slapped on the butt. So why?s she the one in jail?

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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 is Bergdahl worth to us?

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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 eastern Afghanistan and into the dark, open desert. About 20 minutes later, it occurs to him: he?s in over his head. 

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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, they had to keep their dating secret, because their parents disapproved. Both of them, but especially Adnan, were under special pressure at home, and the stress of that spilled over into their relationship. Eventually Hae broke up with Adnan. And then, depending on who you ask, Adnan was either understandably sad and moping around, or full of rage and plotting to kill her.

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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 ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, for her murder. He says he's innocent - though he can't exactly remember what he was doing on that January afternoon. But someone can. A classmate at Woodlawn High School says she knows where Adnan was. The trouble is, she?s nowhere to be found.
 

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