The wait is over... Serial has finally dropped its second season and you won't want to miss it

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Podcast fans have been living with a Serial-shaped hole in their lives for what seems like an eternity, after the explosive first season wrapped up in December 2014.

The world has since waited patiently for the arrival of season two and, without any warning, Serial dropped the first episode of the second series on Thursday.

Entitled DUSTWUN, the opening instalment introduces the story of Bowe Bergdahl, a US soldier who was captured by the Taliban after he left his outpost in Afghanistan, and held for nearly five years.

While he was finally released in May 2014, nobody quite knows how the events of that mysterious night in 2009 unfolded.

Speculation swirled and rumours ran rampant, yet the 29-year-old has kept schtum since his return to the States. No press interviews, no television appearance, no words left Bergdahl’s mouth… Until now.

The soldier is finally speaking out and, with the help of Sarah Koenig and a newly-expanded Serial team, will give an insight to the mysterious incident that captured the world’s attention.

“Hello, everyone. We’re back,” Sarah Koenig wrote on Serial’s website.

“Our first season was about a murder case few people had heard about. Season Two is a story a gazillion people have heard about.

“This story – it spins out in so many unexpected directions. Because, yes, it’s about Bowe Bergdahl and about one strange decision he made, to leave his post.

“But it’s also about all of the people affected by that decision, and the choices they made. Unlike our story in Season One, this one extends far out into the world. It reaches into swaths of the military, the peace talks to end the war, attempts to rescue other hostages, our Guantanamo policy.”