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Undisclosed: Toward Justice

audioBoom Q&A Pt.5: Rabia Chaudry

Undisclosed: Toward Justice

mital

News, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.210.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2015

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Rabia Chaudry talks about the appeal of podcasts like Serial and Undisclosed and their power to affect change.

Produced for AudioBoom by Jeremy Helton and Carl Scott. Music by @thesonicdrifter

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Audio Boom's exclusive Q&A with Rabia Chaudry. In this final installment, we asked

0:06.1

Rabia to weigh in on the impact of Undisclosed. What do you think it is about serial and

0:12.1

undisclosed that's captured people's attention? I think people have always been fascinated

0:17.1

with real crime. I mean, this is not a new phenomenon, right? Whether it's the dateline, I mean, I grew up watching this stuff, you know, I think there are 24-hour networks

0:24.6

that focus on just real crime stories. So that's always a source of fascination. And what Sarah

0:30.3

was really, you know, able to do very well, other than just the production value alone was really,

0:34.6

really wonderful. I mean, the music was incredible, right?

0:42.7

But was that she was able to keep a level of ambiguity that kept people hooked, right?

0:46.0

It was always like, did he, didn't he, didn't he?

0:49.0

And this is, and it wasn't contrived.

0:51.3

This is the most fascinating aspect of this case.

0:54.4

You can take almost any part of it, and you can read it lots of different ways. And people do. People can, you know, just pick up one thing like Adnan,

1:02.3

um, you know, like Adnan calling her the night before, you know, and that can seem really like,

1:09.6

uh, like something really nefarious.

1:11.6

But at the same time, people were like, well, yeah, but he was seeing somebody else.

1:14.7

And, you know, what does that mean? And we know in her diary, you know, like from the reading her

1:19.6

diary, you could read it different ways. So there's just no, and it's almost like because there's

1:23.9

no smoking gun, that's what kept people hooked. Although I think people wanted it at the very end.

1:27.9

They wanted like some closure.

1:30.9

So I, and for me, you know, I want to ask the public this question because I'm so close to

1:35.1

the case that for me, it wasn't like an entertainment or I could not enjoy cereal, you know.

1:41.1

Serial stressed me the hell out and cereal stressed Adnan out and all of us close

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