5 October 2008
Permission to speak: what right do you have to tell me what to say?
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Are there boundaries and limits to free speech? What, if anything, should and shouldn't we be able to say? Is there such a thing as political correctness and has it gone too far? And what is the difference between freedom of expression and deliberate and hurtful insult?
Guests
Trevor Phillips
Chair, Equality and Human Rights Commission (UK)
Julia Hobsbawm
Professor of Public Relations, London College of Communication (University of the Arts)
Ziauddin Sardar
writer and academic
Rod Liddle
writer and former editor, BBC Radio 4's Today program
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