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Hey, serial listers, saracenic here to announce that we've got a new show. It's called the trojan horse affair and it's great. I know this because, well, of course, i've heard all the episodes and because i've been editing IT for more than a year now, which involves a lot of arguing and laughing and shaking of fists, the whole tussle of investigating a mystery alongside the reporters and the reporters.
Well, one is brian reed, whom you might already know as the host of our hugely popular podcast, s town. And the other guy you probably haven't heard of, because he's a brand new talent, his name is ham aside. He's to be a doctor before he decided to go to journalism school.
And IT was hamza, who brought this incredible story to brian, a classic mystery which, like all good mysteries, ends up expLoring way more than first, needs the eye. The trojan horse affair unfolds in eight episodes. You can listen to all of them now. So please subscribe on your podcast, APP, the trojan horse affair. In the meantime, here's a trailer I happened .
firming in england one night when this journalism student came up to me at an event he was talking fast, like I might walk away.
Any ami, get national attention. IT was a circular economy scribed to you.
This name was harms, a silent. And he wanted help on his first ever story about a mystery in birmingham, his hometown, that no one had ever solved. IT had begun a few years earlier when news of a strange letter exploded in the press.
a leaked letter outlining a blocked by hard line muslims.
The letter looked to be, you want to explain this part.
The letter look to be a secret communication between the islamic extremists who have been infiltrating the cy schools in a supposed plot called Operation trojan horse. The letter was bizarre, unsigned, incoherent, badly, y ox, yet still IT, Sparked when the biggest school scandals in british history, government investigators descended on the country, beefed up its count of terror policy by the time they all died down, schools were revamped, teachers lost their jobs. Some people were banned for life from education.
The full out has been huge. Prime minister David Cameron, as said, calling a special meeting of the government's extremism .
task force before spicious ir. Is that this dodgy letter suggesting extremists were taken over our schools? Nobody ever found out who wrote or why.
Remarkably, none of the investigators even tried. So I can vence brian read over here. Do we should go for a?
Is IT Better to be the first radio in a room you've ever done?
Yeah.
hums. And I spent years run this down.
I'll give you a clue. Who is the letter defending is the question you have to answer.
But figuring out who wrote the chosen horse letter.
I didn't write IT. I don't know who rose IT not .
to find out who rose. I'm not at the author of vitrain whole letter .
that was only the first mystery we were up against. IT started to seem like officials knew more than what they were letting on all the way from the local primary school to the highest levels of british government. And that harms and I were poking at something that people did not want to talk about.
Can you give us a details about the situation?
IT is particularly .
SHE answered, saying to confuse. It's just a very unusual line of questioning .
why I talk about why can you talk about that? Sorry, leaving us, you're waving us goods ye. Coming february third from serial productions and the new york times.
I'm brian read and i'm .
aside it's the trojan horse affair, a mystery in eight parts that a lot of people don't want you to hear.
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