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The Feud (Pt 5): Atonement?

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3.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In the final episode of the series, the woman who made an allegation against Martyn speaks out about intimidation by some of his supporters. And has Christ Church tried to hide the astronomical cost of the feud?

This episode was first broadcast in November, 2022.

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0:00.0

Last time, on the feud, one of the ways of getting rid of the deen is to have them declared

0:08.0

physically or mentally incapable.

0:10.0

The deen seen here as a classical science and all the people that come from a people

0:15.0

that know such a distinct personality is on it.

0:18.0

We felt like he, in a verse of deen, was in fact comparing his own,

0:22.0

what he likes to call a kind of witch hunt against him to the Holocaust.

0:27.0

It was quite clear they were making a move.

0:30.0

He doesn't behave in a manipulative way.

0:34.0

When the University of Oxford says,

0:37.0

it is time to sort this out, you go with that.

0:41.0

It was effectively all my legal feedback and a substantial sum by way of compensation

0:47.0

but of course Christ Church is in no liability, no responsibility and no apology.

0:58.0

Okay, great stuff.

1:01.0

It's an elephant in there.

1:04.0

I'm in the Oxford flat that Peter McDonald calls his boat hole.

1:09.0

My producer Will is sorting out the microphones.

1:12.0

You can get the level as well.

1:16.0

As you know, Peter is a professor at Christ Church.

1:20.0

He's also a poet and I wanted to hear something that he'd written.

1:25.0

This is a short poem which may reflect something.

1:30.0

I'll just read it now.

1:33.0

Upright women and men as they would reckon themselves and on firm ground.

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