Podcast Corner: New season of Serial goes inside Guantanamo Bay

Sarah Koenig and her colleagues talk to various people involved in the infamous American prison camp 

A prisoner with military police  at Camp X-Ray at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Sarah Koenig sounds like she’s having an existential crisis about seven minutes into Serial’s new season, this one focused on Guantanamo Bay: “It really is like theatre. You’re pretending to report. Or else you’re pretending to report the story they’re telling you. And they’re pretending to believe that the story you’re doing is the story you’ve told them you’re doing. You’re pretending to believe all the bullshit they have to tell you and they’re pretending that they’re believing that you’re believing it. 

"And everyone knows the only information you want is stuff they either don’t know or couldn’t or wouldn’t talk about even if they did know. Everyone acts chummy and yuks it up, including us.”