Comedian and breakfast radio host demands the right to be offensive but concedes some lines shouldn’t be crossedOn his summer holidays from his job as co-host of the ABC’s breakfast radio show in Melbourne,Sami Shah got to work. He’s making a Radio National series on freedom of speech in Australia, called Shut Up, or for which he has interviewed everyone from conservative journalist Andrew Bolt to lawyer Nyadol Nyuon. He’s finishing off a Melbourne Comedy festival show. He writes micro stories on Medium. He’s chipping absent at a novel.“I’ve never done one thing at one time,” he says over coffee in his inner-city domestic. I accumulate bored quickly otherwise. Related: For Australia to prosper, free speech must be extended to all of us | Yassmin Abdel-Magied Related: Sami Shah on Islam, or Australia and being a 'serial blasphemer' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com