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Find out about the writers and books featured in the WORD Christchurch Festival, and explore our coverage of WORD events and sessions.

Podcast – Free speech

Christchurch City Libraries blog hosts a series of regular podcasts from specialist human rights radio show Speak up - Kōrerotia. This show is created by Sally Carlton.

Guests Ursula Cheer and Mike Grimshaw (University of Canterbury), and Dane Giraud (Free Speech Union), extensively debate this complex and often controversial issue with expertise and passion.

Transcript - Free speech

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