Free To Speak
by Free Speech Union
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Stephen Franks and Kirsten Murfitt: Lawyers, Letters and the Law Society
Oct 12, 2026
45m 42s
Karl Mokaraka: The Man Over the Fence on South Auckland
Oct 5, 2026
47m 55s
Jillaine Heather: The Free Speech Union's election priorities
Sep 28, 2026
48m 48s
Dame Elizabeth Rata: how New Zealand built a world-leading education system
Sep 21, 2026
46m 15s
Mike Grimshaw: Kneecap, free speech and the transgressive power of music
Sep 14, 2026
43m 33s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/12/26 | Stephen Franks and Kirsten Murfitt: Lawyers, Letters and the Law Society | 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 system was turned against them. Stephen's case began with a letter sent for a client to clinics offering gender-affirming care to minors, setting out the legal risks after the Cass Review. A Standards Committee censured and fined him. The Legal Complaints Review... | 45m 42s | ||||||
| 10/5/26 | Karl Mokaraka: The Man Over the Fence on South Auckland | 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 Dane Giraud sits down with the Ōtara-raised activist to talk about the South Auckland he grew up in, a community that once judged you by your street rather than your race. They trace what changed as the freezing works and factories closed, the shared spaces v... | 47m 55s | ||||||
| 9/28/26 | Jillaine Heather: The Free Speech Union's election priorities | 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 election day. The first is opposing the return of blasphemy and religious hate speech laws. Heather argues the state can protect people from threats and harassment, but it cannot wall off beliefs and faiths from criticism. The second is professional regulatio... | 48m 48s | ||||||
| 9/21/26 | Dame Elizabeth Rata: how New Zealand built a world-leading education system | 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 series traces how the country built a world-leading school system in the nineteenth century, and why it later declined. Rata argues that free, standardised state schooling did more than teach children. It built a nation and produced knowledgeable citizens w... | 46m 15s | ||||||
| 9/14/26 | Mike Grimshaw: Kneecap, free speech and the transgressive power of music | 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 the band to defend that, he argues. The conversation then widens. Dane and Mike trace the transgressive history of rock and roll and hip-hop, and the long line of attempts to tame popular music. They start with the fear in the United States that the new musi... | 43m 33s | ||||||
| 9/7/26 | independent mediaradio+4 | Corina Shields | Shubz Says SoRadio Aotearoa+1 | New Zealand | independent mediaCorina Shields+6 | — | 45m 18s | ||
| 9/1/26 | blasphemy lawsfree speech+4 | Andrew Doyle | Turkish consulateErdogan | BritainNew Zealand | blasphemyfree speech+5 | — | 47m 22s | ||
| 8/24/26 | homosexual law reformfree speech+4 | Stephen Rainbow | Heterosexuals Unafraid of Gays | SydneySan Francisco+1 | homosexual law reformfree speech+5 | — | 48m 22s | ||
| 8/17/26 | artpolitics+3 | Juliet Moses | New Zealand Jewish CouncilMelbourne Symphony Orchestra+1 | — | Juliet Mosesart and politics+3 | — | 48m 03s | ||
| 8/10/26 | academic freedomKamloops unmarked graves+3 | Frances Widdowson | Mount Royal University | Canada | Frances WiddowsonKamloops+6 | — | 49m 10s | ||
| 8/3/26 | Māori identityfree speech+3 | David Seymour | Radio AotearoaShubz Says So | New Zealand | kūpapaMāori+3 | — | 47m 39s | ||
| 7/27/26 | language preservationte reo Māori+3 | Paul Moon | te reo Māori | WalesIreland+2 | te reo Māorilanguage revival+3 | — | 40m 03s | ||
| 7/20/26 | free speechconservatism+3 | Elliot Ikilei | New ConservativeHobson's Pledge+1 | TakaniniAuckland | Elliot Ikileifree speech+6 | — | 1h 04m 32s | ||
| 7/13/26 | VPN banscensorship+3 | Douglas Brown | Free Speech UnionACT+2 | — | VPNcensorship+5 | — | 1h 06m 37s | ||
| 7/6/26 | censorshipliterature+4 | Brian Boyd | University of AucklandLolita | New ZealandFrance+2 | Nabokovcensorship+5 | — | 58m 10s | ||
| 6/29/26 | good faith conversationscommunity engagement+3 | Ani O'Brien | — | New Zealand | Good Faith Yarnsconversations+3 | — | 59m 43s | ||
| 6/22/26 | deepfakefree speech+4 | Laura McClure | Free Speech UnionParliament+2 | — | deepfakedigital harm+4 | — | 44m 20s | ||
| 6/15/26 | free speechpolice intervention+3 | Dr Ben Jones | UK Free Speech UnionIsland of Strangers | Britain | free speechFacebook post+4 | — | 59m 44s | ||
| 6/9/26 | Māori culturemedia commentary+3 | Corina Shields | Radio AotearoaShubz Says So | — | Māorimedia+5 | — | 58m 37s | ||
| 6/1/26 | conversion therapyNew Zealand law+3 | Bob McCoskrie | Family FirstFree Speech Union+1 | — | conversion therapyNew Zealand+5 | — | 1h 03m 06s | ||
| 5/25/26 | youth radicalisationpolitical polarization+3 | Michael Johnston | The New Zealand Initiative | — | youthpolitics+4 | — | 1h 09m 17s | ||
| 5/18/26 | Broadcasting StandardsFree Speech+3 | Pulotu Tupe Solomon-Tanoa'I | Broadcasting Standards AuthorityCoalition Government+1 | — | Broadcasting Standards Authorityfree speech+4 | — | 1h 01m 11s | ||
| 5/11/26 | free speechpolarisation+5 | Peter Boghossian | Spectrum Street EpistemologyHow to Have Impossible Conversations | — | honestyfree speech+6 | — | 1h 12m 05s | ||
| 5/4/26 | social mediayouth+3 | David Inserra | — | AustraliaUK | social media banteens+5 | — | 1h 00m 54s | ||
| 4/27/26 | class-first socialismliberal left+5 | László Molnárfi | Free Speech UnionNGO | Ireland | class-first socialismliberal left+5 | — | 1h 10m 14s | ||
| 4/20/26 | freedom of speechonline speech regulation+3 | Dr David HarveyDouglas Brown | InternetNZBroadcasting Standards Authority | New Zealand | freedom of expressiononline harm+3 | — | 58m 06s | ||
| 4/13/26 | hate speech lawshuman rights+3 | Professor Ben Saul | UNFree Speech Union | Australia | hate speechextremism laws+4 | — | 33m 56s | ||
| 4/7/26 | free speechcriticism+4 | William McGimpsey | — | — | free speechcriticism+4 | — | 1h 07m 09s | ||
| 4/1/26 | free speechonline regulation+3 | Steven Franks | Broadcasting Standards AuthorityParliament+1 | New Zealand | Broadcasting Standards AuthorityBroadcasting Act 1989+5 | — | 16m 48s | ||
| 3/30/26 | free speechself-censorship+4 | Sarah McLaughlin | FIRE | AucklandTauranga+3 | free speechself-censorship+5 | — | 1h 01m 35s | ||
| 3/23/26 | censorshippolicing+3 | Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull | — | Albert ParkNew Zealand | Posie ParkerAlbert Park+5 | — | 56m 40s | ||
| 3/16/26 | COVID inquiryfree speech+5 | Ani O'Brien | New Zealand | — | COVID inquiryfree speech+5 | — | 1h 06m 09s | ||
| 3/9/26 | Iran's historycensorship+5 | Forough Amin | Iranian Women in New ZealandWhite Revolution | IranNew Zealand | Irancensorship+8 | — | 1h 10m 52s | ||
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Chart history for Free To Speak
Peaked at #107 in New Zealand, currently #107 in New Zealand.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
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| New Zealand | — | #107 | #107 | — |
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