The Last 12 Weeks - Trailer
Jun 16, 2026
In 1992, David Wood was convicted of murdering young women and girls and burying them in the desert outside El Paso. He has been on death row ever since. “The Last 12 Weeks” takes you behind the…
Our newest podcast, “The Last 12 Weeks” is out June 18th. 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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The Idiot - Chapter 1
Mar 25, 2026
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…
The Idiot - Trailer
Mar 19, 2026
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…
The Preventionist - Ep. 1
Oct 30, 2025
The story of how this extraordinary situation in the Lehigh Valley came to light — because it almost didn’t.
The Preventionist - Trailer
Oct 16, 2025
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…
The Retrievals S02 - Ep. 1
Aug 07, 2025
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.
The Retrievals S02 - Trailer
Jul 10, 2025
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…
The Good Whale - Ep. 1
Jan 02, 2025
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 Good Whale - Trailer
Nov 07, 2024
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…
Serial S04 - Ep. 1: Poor Baby Raul
Mar 28, 2024
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.
Serial S04 - Trailer
Mar 21, 2024
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…
The Kids of Rutherford County - Ep. 1
Nov 16, 2023
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…
The Kids of Rutherford County - Trailer
Oct 19, 2023
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…
The Retrievals S01 - Ep. 1
Aug 17, 2023
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.
The Retrievals S01 - Trailer
Jun 22, 2023
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…
The Coldest Case In Laramie - Episode 1
Mar 30, 2023
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…
The Coldest Case In Laramie - Trailer
Feb 15, 2023
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…
We Were Three - Ep. 1
Oct 13, 2022
Rachel goes back to California, to the place where she grew up and where her brother and father died, to find answers.
We Were Three - Trailer
Oct 13, 2022
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…
The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 1
Mar 18, 2022
A strange letter appears outlining a plot by Islamic extremists to infiltrate Birmingham schools. Hamza and Brian visit the supposed mastermind of the plot, and he tells them he did take over a bunch…
The Trojan Horse Affair - Trailer
Feb 03, 2022
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 New York Times, “The Trojan Horse Affair,” an…
The Improvement Association - Ep. 1
Apr 28, 2021
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…
The Improvement Association - Trailer
Mar 30, 2021
Listen to the trailer for our newest show, "The Improvement Association." From Serial Productions and The New York Times, hosted by Zoe Chace.
Nice White Parents - Ep. 1
Aug 20, 2020
A group of parents take one big step together.
S-Town - Chapter I
Nov 20, 2018
“If you keep your mouth shut, you’ll be surprised what you can learn.”
Serial S03 - Ep. 1: A Bar Fight Walks into the Justice Center
Sep 20, 2018
A young woman at a bar is slapped on the butt. So why’s she the one in jail?
Serial S02 - Ep. 1: DUSTWUN
Dec 10, 2015
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…
Serial S01 - Ep. 1: The Alibi
Oct 03, 2014
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…