{"id":986,"date":"2014-10-13T15:58:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T15:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canterburypolitics.wordpress.com\/?p=986"},"modified":"2018-09-18T12:15:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T11:15:20","slug":"politics-students-shine-on-bbc-free-speech-tv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/2014\/10\/13\/politics-students-shine-on-bbc-free-speech-tv-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics Students Shine on BBC Free Speech TV Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members from the Politics Society were invited to participate in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BBCFreeSpeech\">BBC Free Speech TV show<\/a> as it broadcast live from Margate last week. \u00a0The show is available to watch on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b04kzzl2\/free-speech-series-3-episode-7\">BBC iPlayer here<\/a>. \u00a0Our students are lined up behind the presenter&#8217;s shoulder on the top row and behind the TV screen showing the tweets!<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-988\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canterburypolitics.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/politics-society-at-bbc-free-speech.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-988\" src=\"https:\/\/canterburypolitics.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/politics-society-at-bbc-free-speech.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Politics Society at BBC Free Speech\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Politics Society at BBC Free Speech<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The main focus of the debate was immigration and our students had plenty of intelligent and well-informed contributions to make. \u00a0Our Third year student Bronwen Edwards makes a contribution at 11 minutes 41 seconds and our Second year student John Morris makes a point at 23 minutes 13 seconds.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_989\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-989\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canterburypolitics.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/bronwen-on-bbc-free-speech.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-989\" src=\"https:\/\/canterburypolitics.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/bronwen-on-bbc-free-speech.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Bronwen on BBC Free Speech\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-989\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bronwen on BBC Free Speech<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was great work by the Politics Society organisers Ryan Barnett and Jack Brooks to arrange the participation. \u00a0Great work and you are all great representatives of the Politics and IR programme!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_991\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-991\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canterburypolitics.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/tamanna-got-to-sit-in-a-fancy-chair.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-991\" src=\"https:\/\/canterburypolitics.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/tamanna-got-to-sit-in-a-fancy-chair.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Tamanna Miah got to sit in a fancy chair\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamanna Miah got to sit in a fancy chair<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_990\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-990\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canterburypolitics.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/ryan-didnt-make-the-cut.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-990\" src=\"https:\/\/canterburypolitics.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/ryan-didnt-make-the-cut.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Ryan Barnett didn't make the cut\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Barnett didn&#8217;t make the cut<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members from the Politics Society were invited to participate in the BBC Free Speech TV show as it broadcast live from Margate last week. \u00a0The show is available to watch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161081,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-students"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Anna Vanaga","featuredImage":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/645\/2018\/08\/blogs-holding680x453.jpg","postExcerpt":"Members from the Politics Society were invited to participate in 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