# A reckoning at the Guildhall School of Music

An episode of [The Slow Newscast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1487320403), 23 Dec 2025, 31 min.

Audio: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/the-tortoise-podcast/e/6949a085f756711739e473e1/media.mp3

Like many public institutions across the UK, the Guildhall school of music has had to reckon with a past where abuse by staff was either ignored or dismissed. So when a second former student came forward to tell The Observer's Vanessa Thorpe their story, this time from the 1990s, how would the institution respond? Reporter: Vanessa Thorpe Producer: Ada Barumé Artwork: Lola Williams Editor: Jasper Corbett Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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