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Zarganar spent years in solitary confinement for satirising Burma’s ruling military junta. The Burmese poet, comic and musician talks to Nigel Warburton about the importance of thinking and speaking freely, even under tyranny.
Writer Stephanie Merritt explains why renaissance astronomer, mathematician and heretic Giordano Bruno inspired her bestselling “SJ Parris” series. A free speech martyr, Bruno was burned at the stake for challenging the church.
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 Bites, he explains to Nigel Warburton why free speech matters, and the philosophy of John Stuart Mill, whose On Liberty is one of the greatest arguments against censorship.
Greek Journalist Kostas Vaxevani after his arrest for exposing alleged tax cheats – Athens – Stathis Kalligeris | Demotix
The European Union has a duty to speak out against increasing censorship, writes Rohan Jayasekera (more…)