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The Feud The Times
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4.2 • 114 Ratings
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In February 2022, The very reverend professor Martyn Percy left Christ Church, Oxford, as its Dean with a £1.25 million settlement. But big questions remain.
In this five-part series The Times' journalist Andrew Billen returns to his old university college to try and understand why Percy and his employer got into a four year long battle, which left the priest close to suicide and cost the Oxford college millions in charitable funds.
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Down the rabbit hole (Pt 1)
In 2014 The Very Reverend Professor Martyn Percy walks into Christ Church as the new Dean of the Oxford college.
But in this ‘Alice in Wonderland’ universe has this traditional institution met its match?
In this five-part series, release every Thursday, The Times' journalist Andrew Billen delves into the most bizarre story he's every covered.
Clips: BBC.
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Immoral, scandalous or disgraceful (Pt 2)
Two years into his tenure as Dean, a student attacks a man at Christ Church. Dealing with the crisis, Martyn Percy questions how the university college is run, but has no idea the chain of events he is about to set in motion.
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Clips: Walt Disney Studios.
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Mystery in the cathedral (Pt 3)
During the pandemic a woman makes an allegation against Martyn that changes everything.
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Clips: ITV, BBC, Sky News.
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Who blinks first? (Pt 4)
Martyn’s employer questions the Dean’s mental capacity as the feud shows no sign of abating. And he's in hot water over an article, published on his website, in which he references the Holocaust.
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Atonement? (Pt 5)
In the final episode of the series, the woman who made an allegation against Martyn speaks out about intimidation by some of his supporters. And has Christ Church tried to hide the astronomical cost of the feud?
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Host: Andrew Billen, journalist at The Times.
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The Feud - Coming soon
A new five-part investigation from The Times begins on Thursday 13 October.
In February this year, the Very Reverend Professor Martyn Percy left Christ Church, Oxford, as its Dean with a £1.25 million settlement. But big questions remain.
Journalist Andrew Billen returns to his old university college to try and understand why Percy and his employer got into a four year long battle, which left the priest close to suicide and cost the Oxford college millions in charitable funds.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Customer Reviews
Gossip with dramatic music
Narrated with all the seriousness and dramatic flair of a good true crime podcast. But. It’s basically about gossip and heresay in an elitist niche, that I can’t really bring myself to care that much about. Nothing all that dramatic really happens, but it’s somehow the most shocking story the narrator has ever encountered in his career, and it’s presented that way. Weird.
Woke infects everywhere
Total garbage presented by an upper class privileged nobody with no experience of real life.
Wasted time writing review
Why was my review not posted?!