Over the course of one day we hear from carers, residents and day regulars at Pilgrims Hospice in Margate. This brilliant programme, by producer Cathy FitzGerald, was made in 2013 but only made it to Radio 4 last week. Let’s hope we start getting to the actual story soon. Why not start the whole thing with the door-breaking? By the time I got to the end of episode one, I was exhausted and had learned almost nothing. He stands by as Horst, in his 70s, breaks down a locked door to get to the Wächter diaries. We hear him getting on a train he arrives at the house where Wächter’s son, Horst, lives. He paints a scene using Wächter’s wife’s diary he explains how he got to know Wächter’s son he tells us he’s going on a journey. In fact, he seems to start his story about five times in the first episode. Sands is, he tells us, “going on a journey” (any producer who still thinks this is allowable should not be in their job) and then informs us where this journey will take him (ditto). Sounds good, except that this podcast, like the previous Intrigue series, suffers from a plethora of BBC problems. The Ratline, the second series of the BBC’s Intrigue podcast, follows international human rights lawyer Philippe Sands as he unpicks the story of Otto Wächter, a senior Nazi who was never brought to justice. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The GuardianĪnother new high-profile podcast started last week. How fallible these systems are, how often they seem to get it wrong, even when we’re told they get it right. And, more troublingly, all Serial series also make us consider the systems around innocence and guilt. All of the Serial series make listeners consider whether anyone can be completely one or the other. So if you don’t seem completely innocent, you’ll probably end up guilty, even if only a little bit. Except you’re left with the uneasy feeling that it didn’t… We’re told that 96% of convictions are decided on a plea bargain. They chose to start with it, says Koenig, because it was “an example of the system actually working”. (This is only possible due to the access allowed to Koenig and the Serial team they spent a year in Cleveland and seem to have recorded almost everywhere.)Īnd the first case seems quite straightforward, almost comically unfair, an easy decision. This series – “one courthouse told week by week” – promises to take us through various individual cases, and through these to an understanding of the US justice system. Serial 3 makes you understand that what you really enjoy about Serial is Koenig and her team. The consistent empathy, the moral niggles, the revealing vignettes. Such beautiful language! It makes you remember that Serial is not only about the individuals it chooses to focus on – it’s about the production: the reporting, the writing, the asides. I had to keep stopping to go back, to play small parts over again, just for my own enjoyment. Koenig’s opening six-and-a-half-minute description of the building is quite astonishing, like a chapter from Dickens or Maupassant. Sarah Koenig, our producer/presenter, talks us through: “The elevator really runs the place,” she says and explains why. This is the high-rise building that contains the city’s justice department, from jail (in the basement) to courthouses (the higher the floor, the more serious the crime). Content advisory Nudity, violence, substance use, alcohol use, smoking, foul language, sexual content Audio languages English, English, ಕನ್ನಡ, Italiano, Deutsch, தமிழ், עברית, Indonesia, Português (Portugal), Tiếng Việt, Español (Latinoamérica), Ελληνικά, తెలుగు, Français (France), Bahasa Melayu, Français (Canada), Filipino, 日本語, Português (Brasil), Nederlands, മലയാളം, Español (España), हिन्दी, العربية, Polski, Čeština, Magyar, Türkçe, ไทย, Català, Română Subtitles English, Українська, العربية, Català, Čeština, Dansk, Deutsch, Ελληνικά, Español (Latinoamérica), Español (España), Euskara, Suomi, Filipino, Français (Canada), Français (France), Galego, עברית, हिन्दी, Magyar, Indonesia, Italiano, 日本語, ಕನ್ನಡ, 한국어, മലയാളം, Bahasa Melayu, Norsk Bokmål, Nederlands, Polski, Português (Brasil), Português (Portugal), Română, Русский, Svenska, தமிழ், తెలుగు, ไทย, Türkçe, Tiếng Việt, 中文(简体), 中文(繁體) Directors Philip Sgriccia, Sarah Boyd, Stefan Schwartz, Frederick E.O.We are at the Justice Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
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