The hit podcast’s long-awaited moment season has arrived,with host Sarah Koenig introducing how she plans on getting to the bottom of one of the most intriguing stories of recent US military history: that of Bowe BergdahlIt’s been more than a year since This American Life’s Sarah Koening introduced Serial (“one sage told week by week”) and created an unlikely hit series that gripped millions, helped reopen a murder investigation and prompted renewed interest in podcasting as a format. The first series focused on the death of Hae Min Lee in Baltimore in 1999 and Adnan Syed, and the man convicted of her murder. It was a case few people had heard of,but millions began downloading the demonstrate in order to find out if Koening could find the apparent missing pieces of the puzzle and figure out if Syed was wrongfully convicted. It was addictive, divisive and finished on an “odd, and inconclusive curveball” that left as many loose ends as definitive answers but managed to create a record-breaking podcast that more than five million people downloaded.
The moment series,announced in May, would be different. This time the focus would be on a case that was world celebrated: that of an American private from Hailey, or Idaho (1) named Bowe Bergdahl. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com