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Stephen Franks and Kirsten Murfitt: Lawyers, Letters and the Law Society

October 12, 2026 · 46 min

Free Speech Union Council Chair Stephen Franks and Tauranga lawyer Kirsten Murfitt compare notes on being investigated by the New Zealand Law Society. Both faced complaints over letters they wrote for clients. Both say the complaints…
Karl Mokaraka: The Man Over the Fence on South Auckland

October 5, 2026 · 48 min

Karl Mokaraka earned the nickname "the man over the fence" the day he borrowed a wheelchair for height and climbed the fence at a Pakuranga press event. From there he put his questions straight to the politicians inside. In this episode…
Jillaine Heather: The Free Speech Union's election priorities

September 28, 2026 · 49 min

Free Speech Union Executive Director Jillaine Heather joins Dane Giraud on Free to Speak to set out the Union's priorities heading into the 2026 general election. Together they work through the three campaigns the FSU is running before…
Dame Elizabeth Rata: how New Zealand built a world-leading education system

September 21, 2026 · 46 min

Dame Elizabeth Rata is a sociologist of education at the University of Auckland and a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. She joins Dane Giraud to discuss her 40-part YouTube series, The History of New Zealand Education. The…
Mike Grimshaw: Kneecap, free speech and the transgressive power of music

September 14, 2026 · 44 min

Mike Grimshaw is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Canterbury. He joins Dane Giraud to make the free speech case for letting the Irish rap group Kneecap perform here, after Hungary barred them. You do not have to like…

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Corina Shields: Independent Media and the Stories Nobody Covers

September 7, 2026 · 45 min

Corina Shields returns to Free to Speak. As producer of Shubz Says So, she helped build one of the most talked about shows on independent New Zealand radio. Then she walked away from the station that carried it, and tells Dane Giraud…
Andrew Doyle: How Blasphemy Laws Are Returning as 'Harm' and 'Islamophobia' | Free to Speak

September 1, 2026 · 47 min

Comedian, broadcaster and author Andrew Doyle, creator of the satirical persona Titania McGrath, joins Dane Giraud to unpack how Britain is sliding back towards blasphemy law, not by name, but through the language of "hate," "harm" and…
Stephen Rainbow: Homosexual Law Reform, Free Speech and 1986

August 24, 2026 · 48 min

In 1986 Stephen Rainbow marched with HUG, Heterosexuals Unafraid of Gays, while living as a married father who had not yet come out. Forty years after the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed, he joins Dane Giraud to argue that the reform was…
Juliet Moses: Artists, Donors and Who Owns the Stage | Free to Speak

August 17, 2026 · 48 min

Juliet Moses is a lawyer, President of the New Zealand Jewish Council, and the author of "Biting the Hand", a Quillette essay on what happens when artists insist their work and their politics cannot be separated. Her argument is that when…
Frances Widdowson: Kamloops, unmarked graves and academic freedom

August 10, 2026 · 49 min

Frances Widdowson is a Canadian political scientist. She was an associate professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary until her dismissal in 2021. For several years she has examined the evidence behind the May 2021 announcement…
Shubz: Called a Kūpapa for Talking to the Wrong People

August 3, 2026 · 48 min

Shubz has been called a kūpapa. The word describes Māori who sided with the Crown in the New Zealand Wars, and it still gets thrown at Māori accused of betraying their own. Shubz gets it for having David Seymour on his show. Shubz hosts…
Paul Moon: Killing Te Reo Māori | Free to Speak

July 27, 2026 · 40 min

In 2018, historian Paul Moon published a book arguing that te reo Māori is on course to disappear as a living language, and that almost everything being done to revive it is failing. The reaction was immediate and hostile. Moon's position…

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About the show

Free to Speak is the New Zealand podcast that goes beyond headlines to explore the principles behind our most contentious debates.Produced by the New Zealand Free Speech Union, it examines freedom of expression and why it matters to a free and democratic society.Expect interviews with guests from New Zealand and around the world, plus deep dives with our Council into the cases and policy work shaping free speech today. Any questions, queries or feedback? Email: podcast@fsu.nz www.fsu.nz