The Trojan Horse Affair
Hard to imagine any listeners to Brian Reed’s previous podcast, S-Town, predicting that its follow-up would shift focus from a murder in small-town America to a national British scandal. Yet this look at the supposed 2014 Islamist plot in Birmingham schools did just that, leaving no stone unturned in its investigation – to the extent that it ended up dragging an ex-teacher’s dentist to South Africa. Passionate co-host Hamza Syed, in his podcast debut, made the storytelling all the more compelling.
