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Episode: The Trojan Horse Affair
Description: In 2014, a letter emerged detailing an elaborate plot by Islamic extremists to infiltrate schools in Birmingham, England.Β It became known as The Trojan Horse Affair. When journalism student Hamza Syed met podcaster Brian Reed, he told him about the scandal and the unexplored question of the authorβs true motives.Β They teamed up to investigate where the ham-fisted letter came from in the first place - and if there was no extremist plot, what was the writer actually hoping to achieve?From Serial Productions and The New York Times comes βThe Trojan Horse Affair.β We follow Hamza and Bria...