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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: Sometimes a ban isn't the answer
Description: It would be very easy for me to say that the organisers of those ridiculous Run it Straight combat sport events have blood on their hands after the tragic death of 19-year-old Ryan Satterthwaite.  And I would be saying that if Ryan had been involved in an official event. The thing is, he wasn’t.  That’s not stopping other people from piling in though. There are experts saying today that we need to ban the whole thing. But I don’t think that’s realistic.  Because for starters, banning officially organised events wouldn’t st...