Part 4: The Meeting and the Mole

The Trojan Horse Affair

Serial Productions & The New York Times

News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

A series of frustrating interviews with Birmingham politicians leaves Brian and Hamza wondering if crucial information about the Trojan Horse letter was kept from officials in London. Then one rainy Friday afternoon, Brian hears back from a government source who wants to meet right away.

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh.
0:01.4	And I'm Josh Klein.
0:02.6	And we're the hosts of Built for Change,
0:04.8	a podcast from Accenture.
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0:32.4	As we uncovered more clues about who could have written
0:34.7	the Trojan Horse Letter, every so often,
0:37.2	Hamza and I would go back and reread the letter itself
0:39.8	to see whether the new information we were finding
0:42.2	unlocked any of the letter's secrets.
0:44.8	We definitely did that after we got a hold of the audit report.
0:48.4	And that's the audit report.
0:52.3	This is the Birmingham City Council's report
0:54.4	about whether head teacher Rizwan Adar had faked resignation letters
0:57.8	from four teaching assistants at her school,
	...

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