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The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2022
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
A new five-part investigation from The Times begins here on Stories of our times on Thursday 13 October.
It follows the story of the Very Reverend Professor Martyn Percy, who left Christ Church, Oxford, as its Dean with a £1.25 million settlement earlier this year.
But big questions remain.
The Times’ journalist Andrew Billen returns to his old university to try and understand why Percy and his employer got into a four year long battle, which left the priest close to suicide and cost the Oxford college millions in charitable funds.
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| 0:00.0 | This is how they're talking about you. |
| 0:02.6 | They're allowing the silence to prosecute you. |
| 0:09.6 | For the past four years, |
| 0:11.2 | a civil war has been raging |
| 0:12.8 | at one of the richest university colleges in the world. |
| 0:16.4 | Behind the scenes, |
| 0:17.8 | this group are running quite a lot of things. |
| 0:20.4 | Was there really something lurking in the shadows? |
| 0:23.8 | The birthplace of Anderson Wonderland, |
| 0:26.2 | Christchurch, |
| 0:27.4 | has seen the dawns of this Oxford College |
| 0:29.8 | locked in a bizarre dispute with their dean, Martin Percy. |
| 0:34.6 | A small group of people decided |
| 0:36.6 | that it was time for me to go. |
| 0:38.2 | She decided to tell me that Martin was in big trouble, |
| 0:42.2 | and it was something to do with money. |
| 0:44.6 | It's a very complex role to explain to anyone |
| 0:47.2 | and I can't give any parallel |
| 0:49.2 | in any walk of life, really. |
| 0:51.4 | I'm Andrew Billham, a journalist at the Times. |
| 0:55.0 | This is a story I never wanted to cover, |
| 0:57.8 | but I've been sucked in. |
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