Novelist Ma Jian, a veteran of the Tiananmen Square protests, talks to
Nigel Warburton about political and artistic freedom in China
CATEGORY: Free Speech Bites
Free Speech Bites: Timothy Garton Ash on global free speech standards
Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies at Oxford University, and a noted author and commentator. Here he tells Nigel Warburton about...
Free Speech Bites: DJ Taylor on George Orwell
DJ Taylor is the author of Orwell: The Life, an award-winning biography of journalist and novelist George Orwell. he speaks to Nigel Warburton about...
Free Speech Bites: Denis MacShane on Tom Paine
Denis MacShane is a politician and journalist. Previously a BBC reporter, he was Labour MP for Rotheram from 1994 until 2012, when he resigned after...
Free Speech Bites: Natalia Kaliada on the arts in Belarus
Natalia Kaliada is co-founder of the Belarus Free Theatre. The group, formed in 2005, performs provocative political works in a country where it can...
Free Speech Bites: Martin Rowson about humour, satire and offence
Martin Rowson is an award-winning cartoonist, writer and satirist in the tradition of Swift and Gillray. Here he talks to Nigel Warburton about...
Free Speech Bites: Irshad Manji on religion and free speech
Self-described “Muslim refusenik” Irshad Manji campaigns for reform in Islam. Here the feminist author and activist thrashes out the clashes between...
Free Speech Bites: Zarganar on the importance of thinking and speaking freely
Zarganar spent years in solitary confinement for satirising Burma’s ruling military junta. The Burmese poet, comic and musician talks to Nigel...
Free Speech Bites: Stephanie Merritt on Giordano Bruno
Writer Stephanie Merritt explains why renaissance astronomer, mathematician and heretic Giordano Bruno inspired her bestselling “SJ Parris” series....
Free Speech Bites: Jonathan Dimbleby on why free expression matters
Broadcaster and writer Jonathan Dimbleby is also a former Chair of the Index on Censorship board of trustees. In the opening episode of Free Speech...