Marshall Matters: Andrew Doyle

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🗓️ 3 May 2022

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This week on Marshall Matters, Winston speaks with Comedian, author and TV host Andrew Doyle. They discuss his book Free Speech and Why it Matters, Elon Musk, Twitter, Andrew’s creation Titania McGrath, Stonewall the comedy industry and much more.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to Marshall Matters with me, Winston Marshall, at the Spectator Building.
0:06.3	Today I'm joined by one of the most prolific men I know both in comedy but also in the
0:12.2	commentating commentary at world. Andrew Doyle. Thank you so much, Andrew, for coming here to
0:18.8	Westminster to chat with me. Thanks for having me.
0:21.6	So I don't really know how you have the capacity to do so much.
0:26.2	But as well as your TV show, Free Speech Nation, you've also written free speech and why it matters, as well as two books.
0:36.1	You're the man behind Titania McGraw.
0:38.8	Yeah.
0:39.1	I've pronounced it correctly.
0:40.0	Yeah.
0:40.5	Fantastic.
0:41.6	And she's published two books, and I went to see her show in the West End at
0:49.2	at the Lester Square Theatre.
0:50.6	I've seen you do stand up.
0:52.1	You host the comedy show at the Brick Lane. Is it Brick Lane?
0:58.1	It's Bethnal Green. Comedy Unleashed. Yeah. Comedy Unleashed. I don't know how you have the time for it. Also, with that mind, thank you so much for... No, it's
1:05.1	absolutely my pleasure. No. It's nice. So the sort of first thing I want to speak to you about is free speech.
1:11.7	Yes.
1:12.0	Not only because you wrote, they published this book last year on free speech,
1:15.8	but it seems to me that as the kind of lens of the cultural discourse continues to move,
1:22.8	whether it was BLM or trans or COVID and all these different things.
1:27.9	This month, particularly with both Elon Musk buying Twitter and also Biden launching their
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