Hello, nice white parents listeners. This is Hana 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. Turn Journalist Hamza Sayed.

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

an 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 this 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 Hamza with The Trailer.

I happen 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's 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 Sayed 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, well Hamza, you want to explain this part? The letter looked to be a secret

communique between Islamic extremists who'd been infiltrating the city schools in a supposed

plot called Operation Trojan Horse. The letter was bizarre, unsigned and coherent, badly

zearoxed, yet still it sparked one of the biggest school scandals in British history. Government

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