Hello, nice white parents, listeners. This is Khanna here. I'm dropping in to tell you about a new

serial show. I think you will very much enjoy. It's called the Trojan Horse Affair.

It's a story told by my colleague from This American Life, Brian Reed, and Dr. Turned journalist Hamza Syed.

The Trojan Horse Affair is the story of a single strange letter that

explodes into a national scandal. Brian and Hamza set out to determine who wrote that letter and why.

There are so many things I really enjoyed about the Trojan Horse Affair. It's a mystery. It pulls

you along. It's revealing

and emotional. There's also a part about schools and racism, which if you're subscribed to this

feed, I assume, is up your alley. So all of that is very compelling. But for me, one of my

favorite parts of the show is just getting to hear Brian and Hamza unravel this mystery together

and hear how these two very specific people react very differently to interviews that they're doing

and revelations they come to along the way. It gets tense and messy and they don't shy away from it.

Anyway, it's great and you should go listen to it. Here's Brian and Hamsa with the trailer. I happened to be in Birmingham, England one night, when this journalism student came up to me at an event. He was talking fast, like I might walk away any second. There was a tsunami that hit Birmingham. Birmingham does not get national attention.

It was a circus, mate.

I can't even describe to you.

His name was Hamza Syed,

and he wanted help on his first ever story about a mystery in Birmingham, his hometown,

that no one had ever solved.

It had begun a few years earlier

when news of a strange letter exploded in the press.

A leaked letter outlining a plot by hardline Muslims.

The letter looked to be...

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