Free Speech - Season 3

Free Speech - Season 3

Season 3

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Episode 1
Season 3Episode 160 min

Episode 1

With BBC Three facing the axe from the airwaves, the live debate show discusses what its future should be and the other big topics of the day. Viewers at home use Facebook and social media to interact with the show to make sure the panel and audience discuss the issues young people really care about.

Episode 2
Season 3Episode 260 min

Episode 2

The live current affairs debate show comes from the heart of the Broadwater Farm housing estate in Tottenham. In the run-up to the show viewers help set the agenda by voting for the questions they want to see debated on the show's Facebook page, which are then discussed by the panel.

Episode 3
Season 3Episode 360 min

Episode 3

The live current affairs debate show comes from Winchester in front of an audience of young people divided between those educated in the state system and those educated privately. In the run-up to the show viewers help set the agenda by voting for the questions they want to see debated on the show's Facebook page, which are then discussed by the panel.

Episode 4
Season 3Episode 460 min

Episode 4

Live current affairs debate from Nottingham's old courthouse, where topics under discussion include crime and punishment. Defence minister Anna Soubry MP and comedian Ava Vidal are among those on the panel.

Episode 5
Season 3Episode 560 min

Episode 5

Live current affairs debate from Edinburgh, just one week before the big vote on independence. On the panel are Joan McAlpine of the SNP, leader of the Scottish Conservative party Ruth Davidson, actor Martin Compston and Times and Spectator columnist Hugo Rifkind.  

As well as Scottish independence, the situation in the Middle East is also debated and whether the protests against Israel are encouraging anti-Semitism.

Episode 6
Season 3Episode 660 min

Episode 6

Live current affairs debate from Cardiff, presented by Rick Edwards and Tina Daheley. Along with the other issues of the week, the question 'Do we live in a sexist country?' is debated.

On the panel are Leanne Wood, leader of Plaid Cymru, Laura Bates, writer and founder of the website Everyday Sexism, journalist and critic of feminism Angela Epstein, and 'compassionate conservative' Welsh-Egyptian comedian Omar Hamdi.

Episode 7
Season 3Episode 760 min

Episode 7

Live current affairs debate presented by Rick Edwards and Tina Daheley from the Winter Gardens in Margate, Kent, just two days before a by-election which will likely see Ukip's first MP in parliament and close to the constituency being targeted by its leader Nigel Farage for the general election. Along with the other issues of the week, the question 'Is immigration needed if British people won't do tough jobs?' is asked. On the panel are Suzanne Evans, Deputy Chairman of Ukip, Owen Jones, journalist and author of The Establishment, Lord Bilimoria, the founder of Cobra Beer, and journalist and author Harriet Sergeant.

Episode 8
Season 3Episode 860 min

Episode 8

Free Speech comes from a mental health hospital in London with an audience made up of those with a personal experience of a mental health issue - the first time this has happened on British television. On the panel is Tony Blair's fomer Director of Communications, Alastair Campbell; Dr Sarah Wollaston MP, the chair of the Health Select Committee, and someone who has spoken about her experience with post-natal depression; journalist Jon Ronson, the author of The Psychopath Test; and Zoe Hardman, TV presenter and radio DJ who has been open about her former battle with an eating disorder.  

Along with the general political topics of the week we will also be discussing mental health and the issue of self-harm, which is on the rise amongst young people.

Episode 9
Season 3Episode 960 min

Episode 9

Free Speech is joined by Nick Clegg for an hour of live and unscripted debate. The deputy prime minister answers questions from a studio audience of young people and from the audience at home submitted by social media. During the two weeks before broadcast, viewers have been submitting their questions online and now those questions are put directly to him by host Rick Edwards and social media presenter Tina Daheley.

Episode 10
Season 3Episode 1060 min

Episode 10

Rick Edwards and Tina Daheley present live debate from Manchester. Amongst the topics of the week the panel will be discussing Islamic extremism.

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