This season will delve into the story of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier held prisoner for years by the Taliban after leaving his post in Afghanistan.
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The podcast’s first season, also produced and narrated by Koenig, zoomed in on the unsolved murder of Hae Min Lee in 1999 and those implicated in the killing.
The ultra-popular podcast’s second season is available! The release was framed as a successful completion of the administration’s vow to bring prisoners of war home, as Bergdahl was the last remaining us military captive in Afghanistan.
This season, she revealed, the team behind the award-winning podcast will be interacting with listeners on social media, sending out an email newsletter and adding graphics and videos on the website to help listeners better understand the story.
“Serial”, the hit spinoff from “This American Life”, aims to cover one story, week by week, in serialized fashion (hence the name).
“I had this fantastic idea that I was going to prove to the world that I was the real thing”.
That season was downloaded about 100 million times and has remained among the top-five podcasts on iTunes since 2014, according to Neiman Lab.
The report said the five Taliban leaders were told they were being released two days before Congress received notification.
To sum up, series two might be going down a different road to the Adnan Syed case, but the building storytelling episode after episode is sure to have you hooked all over again.
The first episode of the highly anticipated podcast – a spin-off from radio programme This American Life – landed early on Thursday morning.
President Barack Obama secured Bergdahl’s release by trading him for the freedom of five Taliban detainees at Guantánamo Bay.
Season 2 will consist of about eight to 10 episodes, Koenig said.
He said he walked away from his base in eastern Afghanistan in June 2009 because he was trying to trigger a massive manhunt that would ultimately expose issues within the Army.
“Suddenly, it really starts to sink in that I really did something bad”, he explained.
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This spring Boal and his production company Page 1 came to the Serial producers with “about 25 hours of recorded phone interviews that Boal had conducted with Bergdahl after his return from captivity”, The New Yorker reported on Thursday. “And at every turn you’re surprised, the picture changes”, Koenig says in the first episode about Bergdahl’s story.
