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Anyone into this? Seems to have taken the world by storm.
Serial is a podcast dedicated to telling a single, true story in about a dozen weekly episodes. It debuted this fall and has been the no. 1 podcast on iTunes virtually ever since, averaging 1 million weekly downloads
The podcast's first season is a true crime story about the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Maryland. Hae's ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, a 17-year-old Woodlawn student, was arrested, convicted of strangling Hae, and is serving a life sentence in a Maryland prison.
http://serialpodcast.org/season-one/1/the-alibi
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/nov/07/serial-listeners-detectives-troubling-results
Have listened to the first one. Yet to make up my mind, quirky, definitely going back for more though.
Serial is a podcast dedicated to telling a single, true story in about a dozen weekly episodes. It debuted this fall and has been the no. 1 podcast on iTunes virtually ever since, averaging 1 million weekly downloads
The podcast's first season is a true crime story about the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Maryland. Hae's ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, a 17-year-old Woodlawn student, was arrested, convicted of strangling Hae, and is serving a life sentence in a Maryland prison.
http://serialpodcast.org/season-one/1/the-alibi
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/nov/07/serial-listeners-detectives-troubling-results
Have listened to the first one. Yet to make up my mind, quirky, definitely going back for more though.
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Critics have reviewed the content of the initial episodes favorably. According to The New Yorker, "Combining the drama of prestige-television-style episodic storytelling, the portability of podcasts, and the reliability of This American Life, the show has been, perhaps not surprisingly, ranked at No. 1 on iTunes for much of the past couple of weeks. It held that position even before it débuted."[1] The Guardian characterized it as a "new genre of audio storytelling".[3]
Introducing a PBS NewsHour segment about Serial, Judy Woodruff noted that it is "an unexpected phenomenon", and Hari Sreenivasan mentioned it has "five million downloads on iTunes, far more than any other podcast in history".[27] In the interview that followed, David Haglund of Slate observed the solitary experience of listening with earphones adds to the intimacy of the podcast form.[27]
Calling the characters "rich and intriguing", The Daily Californian noted similarities to the film The Thin Blue Line (1988), and described the podcast as "gripping" and story as "thrilling", while applauding the series for giving "listeners a unique opportunity to humanize the players".[28]
Slate ' s reviewer pointed out that Serial is not escapist and went on to note: "Someone in the show is not telling the truth about something very sinister. That's the narrative tension that makes Serial not only compelling but also unlike anything I can remember watching or reading before
Introducing a PBS NewsHour segment about Serial, Judy Woodruff noted that it is "an unexpected phenomenon", and Hari Sreenivasan mentioned it has "five million downloads on iTunes, far more than any other podcast in history".[27] In the interview that followed, David Haglund of Slate observed the solitary experience of listening with earphones adds to the intimacy of the podcast form.[27]
Calling the characters "rich and intriguing", The Daily Californian noted similarities to the film The Thin Blue Line (1988), and described the podcast as "gripping" and story as "thrilling", while applauding the series for giving "listeners a unique opportunity to humanize the players".[28]
Slate ' s reviewer pointed out that Serial is not escapist and went on to note: "Someone in the show is not telling the truth about something very sinister. That's the narrative tension that makes Serial not only compelling but also unlike anything I can remember watching or reading before
the guardian?
Anything on the site about setting fire to the UKIP shop?
Anything on the site about setting fire to the UKIP shop?
I listen to a load of podcasts, I've heard of it but will put it on my download cue. Thanks for the links.
listened to it all and while i think he is guilty , a lot of evidence was circumstantial and his attorney definitely ballsed it up , absolutely addictive stuff though !
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