On Fresh Air, Nicholas Quah praised the podcast as “a thrilling audio documentary… It excels in bringing you inside the investigation.
[4] In The Guardian, Alexi Duggins said, "The storytelling is as hooky as you’d expect, given it was part created by S-Town’s Brian Reed.
"[2] Also in the Guardian,[5] Sonia Sodha said, “The Trojan Horse Affair presents a one-sided account that minimises child protection concerns, misogyny and homophobia in order to exonerate the podcast’s hero, a man called Tahir Alam”.
Serial Productions sent a right-of-reply response to the Guardian prior to publication, which it claimed rebutted Sodha's arguments and which Vulture described as "largely ignored.
"[6] Writing in the Spectator,[7] Birmingham Labour MP Khalid Mahmood (who was involved in the response to the original letter)[8] said The New York Times "has blundered again, emboldening the worst elements of the community.