{"id":4719,"date":"2022-02-11T06:36:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T05:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/11\/best-podcasts-of-the-week-the-serial-team-tackle-islamophobia-in-birmingham\/"},"modified":"2022-02-11T06:36:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T05:36:22","slug":"best-podcasts-of-the-week-the-serial-team-tackle-islamophobia-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/11\/best-podcasts-of-the-week-the-serial-team-tackle-islamophobia-in-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Best podcasts of the week: the Serial team tackle Islamophobia in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S-Town\u2019s Brian Reed unpicks The Trojan Horse Affair, which saw Midlands schools accused of Islamic extremism. Plus: Shaun Keaveny speaks with pals such as Vic Reeves and Nina Conti in his warming, nostalgic series <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/761\/the-trojan-horse-affair\">The Trojan Horse Affair<\/a><\/strong><br \/>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2014\/nov\/08\/serial-review-greatest-murder-mystery-ever-hear\">Serial<\/a>-backed podcast tackles the scandal that saw Birmingham schools accused of an Islamist plot. Given the affair stemmed from authorities being sent an amateurish-looking letter that was supposedly correspondence between Muslims plotting to take control of schools, it asks: who wrote it? The storytelling is as hooky as you\u2019d expect, given it was part created by S-Town\u2019s Brian Reed. <em>Alexi Duggins<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2022\/feb\/11\/best-podcasts-of-the-week-the-serial-team-tackle-islamophobia-in-birmingham\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/96c39bb15c278a9097efa33160a844c7e2488fc8\/0_122_2362_1417\/master\/2362.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d8dd90c3b3ee333a487cc4181c9a6084\" title=\"Best podcasts of the week: the Serial team tackle Islamophobia in Birmingham\" \/>S-Town\u2019s Brian Reed unpicks The Trojan Horse Affair, which saw Midlands schools accused of Islamic extremism. Plus: Shaun Keaveny speaks with pals such as Vic Reeves and Nina Conti in his warming, nostalgic series<br \/>\nThe Trojan Horse AffairThis Serial-backed podcast tackles the scandal that saw Birmingham schools accused of an Islamist plot. Given the affair stemmed from authorities being sent an amateurish-looking letter that was supposedly correspondence between Muslims plotting to take control of schools, it asks: who wrote it? The storytelling is as hooky as you\u2019d expect, given it was part created by S-Town\u2019s Brian Reed. Alexi Duggins Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S-Town\u2019s Brian Reed unpicks The Trojan Horse Affair, which saw Midlands schools accused of Islamic extremism. Plus: Shaun Keaveny speaks with pals such as Vic Reeves and Nina Conti in his warming, nostalgic series The Trojan Horse AffairThis Serial-backed podcast tackles the scandal that saw Birmingham schools accused of an Islamist plot. Given the affair &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/11\/best-podcasts-of-the-week-the-serial-team-tackle-islamophobia-in-birmingham\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Best podcasts of the week: the Serial team tackle Islamophobia in Birmingham<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}