Painful memories are likely to be revived in a broadcast about the fabricated 2014 plot to Islamise the city’s schools
Eight years on from the Trojan horse affair, Birmingham is braced to revisit memories of the difficult period as a new podcast examines the incident for an international audience.
The divisive scandal thrust the city under the national spotlight in 2014 after a fake letter claimed there was a plot to Islamise schools, resulting in a crackdown on a number of teachers. The podcast, created by the New York Times and Serial, will investigate who was behind the Trojan horse letter, and what their motivations were in sparking the national panic.
