Serial podcast: what we learnt from episode 12, What We Know

Millions of listeners tune in as the global podcast phenomenon Serial reaches its conclusion

Adnan Syed
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After listening to the final episode of the global hit podcast Serial, fans of the 12-episode experiment in narrative journalism may come away feeling bereft and perhaps even a little disappointed. As the first season of this audacious project reached its conclusion, it did so with neither an acquittal nor a smoking gun.

With the series now complete, listeners are, in many ways, left no wiser than when the whole thing began as to whether Adnan Syed – the man at the centre of the podcast – is guilty or innocent of the crime for which he was convicted 15 years ago.

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