The Feud (Pt 5) - Atonement?
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In the final episode of the series, the woman who made an allegation against Martyn Percy speaks out about intimidation by some of the Dean’s supporters. And has Christ Church tried to hide the astronomical cost of the feud?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Manvine here. |
| 0:03.6 | Today's episode is the final installment of our series, The Feud. |
| 0:08.7 | It's hosted by my colleague at the Times, Andrew Billon. |
| 0:13.7 | Last time on The Feud. |
| 0:16.1 | One of the ways of getting rid of the Dean is to have them declared physically or mentally |
| 0:20.9 | incapable. |
| 0:22.4 | They do think he has a classical sense of people and people and people and they're not |
| 0:27.1 | a system person, so I do disagree with it. |
| 0:30.2 | We felt like he, in a verse of the, wasn't that comparing his own, what he likes to call |
| 0:34.9 | a kind of witch hunt against him to the Holocaust. |
| 0:39.2 | It was quite clear they were making a move. |
| 0:42.6 | He doesn't behave in a manipulative way. |
| 0:47.0 | When the University of Oxford says it is time to sort this out, you go with that. |
| 0:53.4 | It was effectively all my legal feedback and a substantial sum by way of compensation, |
| 0:58.9 | but of course Christ Church is doing no liability, no responsibility, and no apology. |
| 1:12.2 | Okay, great stuff. |
| 1:13.8 | It's an elephant in there, yeah. |
| 1:16.7 | I'm in the Oxford flat that Peter McDonnell calls his boat hole. |
| 1:20.8 | My producer will is sorting out the microphones. |
| 1:23.9 | You can get the level as well. |
| 1:28.0 | As you know, Peter is a professor at Christ Church. |
| 1:31.9 | He's also a poet and I wanted to hear something that he'd written. |
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