Free Speech For You… But Not You

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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What if they gave a War on Woke and nobody came? The Government decides to both defend free speech (if you’re a right winger on campus) and restrict it (if you run a stately home named after a slave owner). So that makes sense. Plus: As there’s no credible recovery programme for education, Gráinne Hallahan of the Times Education Supplement joins us to set one out. Gav, call us yeah? Meanwhile… Ros gets a COVID jab! The Arts get their own special No Deal Brexit! And in the Extra Bit, we watch Adam Curtis’s collage-doc digital jeremiad Can’t Get You Out Of My Head. “Each side of this culture war is proclaiming itself as the true arbiter of history.” – Nina Schick “Voltaire and Rousseau wrestled with free speech. Now the Government has decided it’s time for Gavin Williamson to sort it out.” – Alex Andreou “The Government likes the idea of free speech but doesn’t want on engage in any of the complexities.” – Ros Taylor “History is never static.… Let Britain’s monuments be evaluated in terms of what they mean now.” – Nina Schick “Boris Johnson thinks schools are safe, it’s just the children going into them that make them dangerous…” – Gráinne Hallahan “If the National Theatre can’t tour the EU, then nobody can do it.” – Alex Andreou Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Nina Schick, Alex Andreou and Ros Taylor. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to O'God What Now. I'm Dorian Lidsky with me today at Three of the Regulars.
0:11.2	Ross Taylor is editor of the LSE's Covid-19 Black High R Us.
0:15.0	Hello.
0:16.0	You just got your Covid jab. Was that today?
0:19.0	Yeah, it was, it was very exciting. It was a very British atmosphere.
0:24.0	People were obviously really happy to be seeing each other and interacting
0:28.0	and there were quite a lot of volunteers who were quietly enjoying sort of
0:31.2	fossing people around a bit. And it was, it was a very air raid warden circa 1945, I would say.
0:36.0	Where did you have to go?
0:39.0	It was just a health centre in North London. So it was kind of GP type place.
0:45.0	Nothing very unexpected. But it's, it's, it's quite strange because normally, you know, when you have a jab or you have,
0:52.0	you take a pill, you take an ibuprofen or something because you've got a headache.
0:55.0	I kind of just don't think about what it's doing to you. But because this is so new and I got the Pfizer jab,
1:00.0	which is the RNA one, which is obviously quite innovative type of vaccine.
1:04.0	I keep thinking, oh, what would it do now? One of those tea cells up to you. It's kind of strange, strange feeling.
1:11.0	Did you have a preferred brand? Did they do a request?
1:16.0	Sadly, not, no, I just, I just got what I was given. You know, I'd like to say that because of my,
1:21.0	you know, professional involvement in COVID-19 for some time, they're like, ought to be able to demand the fries and one.
1:26.0	But, but, you know, I just took what I was given.
1:30.0	Alex Centreu is a writer and actor. Hello, Alex. Hello.
1:34.0	The DCMS select committee just held a one-off session asking digital culture minister Caroline Dinnonage, if that is how it's pronounced,
1:41.0	to explain why the government didn't negotiate visa free travel to the EU for artists, just causing all kinds of problems, including, I've just seen, for the national theatre.
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