It all came off the back of the announcement that Paul Chambers, the gentleman who in February over twitter threatened to blow up Doncaster airport due to delays was charged £1000 for terrorist threats. The tweet was of course meant in jest but the authorities did not see the funny side and have prosecuted him accordingly. This threw up a whole host of discussion around the area of free speech, about thought crime and actual actions and about the use of irony and sarcasm in social media.
Over the phone an hour or so before the 'interview' they told me there would be a Professor of language there from Sheffield University and a discussion would take place around these various themes. So, I desperately read up on free thought and opinion in a pluralistic society, how the Christian faith can engage in these issues and what it has to say about the power of words. Which is very interesting and there are many things that could be said. The interview itself was rather different and instead they just asked me why we used twitter in the first place and what the benefits were for our church. It was brief but quite fun!
Anyway you can listen to it here on iplayer, skip forward to about 2 hours 11 mins for my bit!
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