Helen Pidd

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269 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 12 Aug

Helen Pidd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Full Story · Plagiarism and a pig’s head: the rise and fall of Jason Arday · 12 Aug 2026 podcast

And he did find some pretty high profile support, didn't he, initially? matched

Yeah, and the letters said that this was quote, an orchestrated and grim effort to delegitimise a brilliant young working class academic for the sin of being successful while black. matched

But the questions surrounding him go way beyond simply plagiarism and academia, don't they? matched

And you know, you're not an education correspondent. matched

How did you get involved in this story? matched

Yeah. matched

Oh goodness. matched

I mean, these are really quite startling claims. matched

At that point, those claims had not been published anywhere else in the media. matched

So he's telling you this. matched

And what are you thinking at the time? matched

Yeah. matched

And so how did you go up trying to stand up what R Day had told you? matched

So back in twenty twenty three? matched

What did they say? matched

Let's talk about some of the other things that our Day has claimed over the years. matched

Claims that matched

again, just don't seem to stack up. matched

And there there are there are so many we actually can't we don't have time to go through them all. matched

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