Matt Frei

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718 appearances 13 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 17 Aug

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The Claire Byrne Show · Hundreds attend Cambridge vigil for Jason Arday · 17 Aug 2026 podcast

He was writing quite a lot about the fact that the pressure had got too much.

And uh that he couldn't bear it any longer.

This is a tricky one.

I mean, there were there were things in not just in his doctoral thesis, uh, which was subject to allegations of, you know, uh as many as a hundred claims of plagiarism, which Cambridge looked into and said they were not valid.

By the way, the university that had given him the PhD, uh Liverpool John Moore's University, had also looked into this in an investigation and said

allegations of plagiarism were not valid.

But at the same time there were stories um that he himself had

propagated about his life, which seem incredulous to many people.

So for instance, he was nonverbal until he was twelve.

I mean that is indeed possible.

And there's some suggestion from people who were at school with him that he was indeed nonverbal and, you know, for quite a long time.

He couldn't read or write until he was 18, but then got some excellent

results and his A levels and went on to university.

And of course the PhD.

So some of these things seem to stretch

you know, uh credulity to some extent.

Then he added on top of that some other stories which again

was stretching imagination.

Uh one was that he would run twelve I think twelve or thirteen marathons in thirteen days.

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