Part 3: Sir Albert and the Missing “H”

The Trojan Horse Affair

Serial Productions & The New York Times

News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In a state of surprise, Hamza and Brian leave a meeting with the man the Trojan Horse letter was first sent to. And they learn about an internal investigation report that local officials have kept hidden, but which they think could contain a bombshell.

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0:00.0	From serial productions and The New York Times, I'm Brian Reed.
0:07.0	I'm Hamza Sayed.
0:08.6	This is The Trojan Horse Affair.
0:10.6	Here's what Hamza and I have figured out.
0:16.3	The Trojan Horse Affair wasn't a mistake.
0:18.8	The government didn't overreact simply because they'd failed to investigate the source of
0:22.7	The Trojan Horse letter.
0:24.2	It hadn't tricked them.
0:25.6	They hadn't actually missed the link to Adderly Primary School and Rizvan Adar and then
0:30.1	pressed ahead anyway with teacher bands, legal cases, school takeovers, enhanced national
0:35.1	security policy.
0:37.2	To tell you the story of how we figured that out, we're going to go all the way back to
0:41.3	our very first week of reporting, to an interview we did with a key figure in this saga.
0:46.8	The first person, The Trojan Horse Letter was sent to.
0:50.1	A man named Sir Albert Bohr.
0:52.8	It came to me in a Brampey Pronglup.
0:56.0	Unmarked.
0:57.0	There's nothing to remark about the envelope.
0:58.0	The envelope just was addressed to me.
1:00.8	Now that would have been November.
1:02.2	When The Trojan Horse Letter arrived in November 2013, Albert Bohr was the leader of the Birmingham
1:07.0	City Council.
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