Over the course of five decades, freedom of speech has gradually emerged. Host Lai Kuo-chou recalled that when he was at university, few kinds of political books were available. Those he read were largely translated works that introduced political philosophies and models of governance.
五十年來，言論自由逐步開放，賴國洲回憶起大學時代，當時政治書籍的樣性很少，他所讀的多是翻譯作品，以介紹政治思潮和政治模式為主。