Hamza and Brian think the source of the Trojan Horse letter might be hiding in plain sight. After learning about the petty personnel dispute that probably gave rise to the letter, theyre even more bewildered about how it ever could have been taken seriously. Our new podcast, The Good Whale, is out now. Follow it here, or search for it wherever you get your podcasts. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscri...
Mar 18, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 of schools just not for the reasons in the letter.Our new podcast, The Good Whale, is out now. Follow it here, or search for it wherever you get your podcasts. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at nyt...
Mar 18, 2022•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast 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 investigation that became bigger than we ever imagined. All eight parts are available now, wherever you get your podcasts. Search "The Trojan Horse Affair." Our new podcast, The Good Whale, is out now. Follow it here, or search for it wherever you get your podcasts. To get full access to this show, and t...
Feb 03, 2022•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Improvement Association PACs power in the county is threatened when an unlikely candidate enters the race for county commissioner. Plenty of people outside the PAC now have their own ideas about how to build Black political power here. Zoe examines what this election could mean for the PACs future. Our new podcast, The Good Whale, is out now. Follow it here , or search for it wherever you get your podcasts. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times p...
Apr 28, 2021•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast With the PACs reputation suffering because of years of cheating accusations and resentment stirring within its ranks, a prominent member turns against the leadership. Nevertheless, Horace and his closest allies make a bold move by supporting a political upset at the center of the county.
Apr 28, 2021•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Zoe delves into one of the most serious allegations against the Bladen Improvement PAC: an accusation about stealing votes from vulnerable people that goes back 10 years. In trying to track down the veracity of this particularly persistent rumor, she comes to understand how and why election cheating allegations are so sticky. Our new podcast, The Good Whale, is out now. Follow it here , or search for it wherever you get your podcasts. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Producti...
Apr 28, 2021•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Our new podcast, The Good Whale, is out now. Follow it here , or search for it wherever...
Apr 28, 2021•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Our new podcast, The Good Whale, is out now. Follow it here , or search for it wherever you get your podcasts. To get full ...
Apr 28, 2021•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Listen to the trailer for our newest show, "The Improvement Association." From Serial Productions and The New York Times, hosted by Zoe Chace. Our new podcast, The Good Whale, is out now. Follow it here , or search for it wherever you get your podcasts. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at nytimes.com/podcasts . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes,...
Mar 30, 2021•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chana has traced the history of the school from its founding and come to the present. But now: One unexpected last chapter. Last year, the school district for BHS mandated a change in the zoning process to ensure all middle schools would be racially integrated. No longer can white families hoard resources in a few select schools. Black and Latino parents have been demanding this change since the late 1950s. The courts have mandated it. Chana asks: How did this happen? And is this a blueprint for...
Aug 20, 2020•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Public schools are inequitable because the school systems are maniacally loyal to white families. We cant have equitable public education unless schools limit the disproportionate power of white parents. But is that even possible? Chana finds two schools that are trying to do just that, and both are actually inside the 293 building. One is downstairs in the basement, where a charter school called Success Academy opened about 7 years ago. The other is upstairs at BHS, the newly renamed SIS. Our n...
Aug 20, 2020•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chana Joffe-Walt explores how white parents can shape a school even when they arent there. She traces the history of I.S. 293, now the Boerum Hill School for International Studies, from the 1980s through the modern education reforms of the 2000s. In the process, Chana talks to alumni who loved their school and never questioned why it was on the edge of a white neighborhood. To them, it was just where everyone went. But she also speaks to some who watched the school change over the years and ques...
Aug 20, 2020•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Its less than a decade after Brown v. Board of Education, amid a ...
Aug 20, 2020•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Its 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 Studiess 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 whats best for the school but it becomes clear that they dont share the same vision of what best means. Our new podcast, The Good Whale, is out now. Foll...
Aug 20, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Youre beginning to figure it out now, arent you?
Nov 20, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Since everyone around here thinks Im a queer anyway. Our new podcast, The Good Whale, is out now. Follow it here , or search for it wherever you get your podcasts. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at nytimes.com/podcasts . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at nytimes.com/serialnewsletter. Have a story pitch, a tip, or...
Nov 20, 2018•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nobodyll ever change my mind about it. Our new podcast, The Good Whale, is out now. Follow it here , or search for it wherever you get your podcasts. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at nytimes.com/podcasts . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at nytimes.com/serialnewsletter. Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on o...
Nov 20, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast If anybody could find it, it would be me. Our new podcast, The Good Whale, is out now. Follow it here , or search for it wherever you get your podcasts. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at nytimes.com/podcasts . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at nytimes.com/serialnewsletter. Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback o...
Nov 20, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tedious and brief. Our new podcast, The Good Whale, is out now. Follow it here , or search for it wherever you get your podcasts. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at nytimes.com/podcasts . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at nytimes.com/serialnewsletter. Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on our shows? Email us a...
Nov 20, 2018•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Has anybody called you? Our new podcast, The Good Whale, is out now. Follow it here , or search for it wherever you get your podcasts. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at nytimes.com/podcasts . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at nytimes.com/serialnewsletter. Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on our shows? Email...
Nov 20, 2018•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast If you keep your mouth shut, youll be surprised what you can learn. Our new podcast, The Good Whale, is out now. Follow it here , or search for it wherever you get your podcasts. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at nytimes.com/podcasts . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at nytimes.com/serialnewsletter. Have a story p...
Nov 20, 2018•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast The state of Ohio decides where Joshua belongs. Our new podcast, The Good Whale, is out now. Follow it here , or search for it wherever you get your podcasts. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at nytimes.com/podcasts . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at nytimes.com/serialnewsletter. Have a story pitch, a tip, or feed...
Nov 15, 2018•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast A teenager decides to cooperate. Our new podcast, The Good Whale, is out now. Follow it here , or search for it wherever you get your podcasts. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at nytimes.com/podcasts . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at nytimes.com/serialnewsletter. Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on our sho...
Nov 08, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast If you listen closely to the trash-talking, you start to get the message. Our new podcast, The Good Whale, is out now. Follow it here , or search for it wherever you get your podcasts. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at nytimes.com/podcasts . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at nytimes.com/serialnewsletter. Have a s...
Oct 25, 2018•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Life after you put a cop in jail. Our new podcast, The Good Whale, is out now. Follow it here , or search for it wherever you get your podcasts. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at nytimes.com/podcasts . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at nytimes.com/serialnewsletter. Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on our sh...
Oct 18, 2018•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dont tell the judges, but the prosecutors have the most power in the building. Our new podcast, The Good Whale, is out now. Follow it here , or search for it wherever you get your podcasts. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at nytimes.com/podcasts . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at nytimes.com/serialnewsletter. Hav...
Oct 11, 2018•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast What happens when the right evidence points to the wrong man? Our new podcast, The Good Whale, is out now. Follow it here , or search for it wherever you get your podcasts. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at nytimes.com/podcasts . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at nytimes.com/serialnewsletter. Have a story pitch, ...
Oct 04, 2018•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast The smell of raw marijuana + acting nervous + hands in pockets = ? Our new podcast, The Good Whale, is out now. Follow it here , or search for it wherever you get your podcasts. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at nytimes.com/podcasts . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at nytimes.com/serialnewsletter. Have a story pi...
Sep 27, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast When a judge believes he knows you better than you know yourself. Our new podcast, The Good Whale, is out now. Follow it here , or search for it wherever you get your podcasts. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at nytimes.com/podcasts . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at nytimes.com/serialnewsletter. Have a story pit...
Sep 20, 2018•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast A young woman at a bar is slapped on the butt. So whys she the one in jail? Our new podcast, The Good Whale, is out now. Follow it here , or search for it wherever you get your podcasts. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at nytimes.com/podcasts . To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at nytimes.com/serialnewsletter. Have a...
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