The Sobremesa Podcast

Here I got to interview author and former Financial Times Spain correspondent Tobias Buck. We talk about corruption, austerity, Rajoy, Podemos and Catalonia. At the end of the episode I also talk about my plans for the podcast in 2021. Merry Christmas from all at The Sobremesa Podcast!

In this two part episode I spoke with Danny and Jim from the Anarchist Book Club Podcast. We go all the way from the meaning of anarchism, its founding in Spain and further in this very exciting episode. I learnt loads talking with both the guys. Please make sure you take a listen to their podcast and if you want to know more you can buy their books.

In this two part episode I spoke with Danny and Jim from the Anarchist Book Club Podcast. We go all the way from the meaning of anarchism, its founding in Spain and further in this very exciting episode. I learnt loads talking with both the guys. Please make sure you take a listen to their podcast and if you want to know more you can buy their books.

CROSSOVER TIME!! The Sobremesa Podcast has teamed up with the When in Spain podcast. Paul Burge has been running his podcast for the last 2 years and covers a whole range of things related to Spain. From pueblos to Hemmingway, it is all in there. Here I interviewed Paul about tourism and the image of Spain, both from the outside and the image of the country that Spaniards have. If you want to hear...

In this episode of the Sobremesa podcast, I chat with journalist and political researcher Jorge Tamames about the history and current state of populism in the USA and Spain. Jorge's book 'For The People: Left Populism in Spain and the US' concentrates on left wing populism. Here he explains the conditions that led to the rise in Podemos and Bernie Sanders, and their differences. Later we discuss P...

This week the Sobremesa Podcast talks with Sophie Gonick from New York University about her up and coming book: Dispossession and Dissent. We talk about how she documented the birth of the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH) (Platform for People Affected by Mortgages), and she also explains the housing crisis that went with it. We later talk about housing policy and why council houses in...

Giles Tremlett joins me on the Sobremesa Podcast to discuss his latest book: The International Brigades. Fascism, Freedom, and the Spanish Civil War. In this interview we cover how the book came about, the historical context in which the book is set, and the story of the Brigades.

This week saw the end of the political jousting between the central government and the Madrid regional government. This reached a climax on Friday Further court developments this week threaten to eat away at the coalition government's sense of legitimacy. This forms part of a larger ongoing investigation that has seen the presentation of the deputy PM go from being an aggrieved or injured party to...

This week (28/9/20) Eoghan Gilmartin joins me. As a political journalist based in Madrid, he has been covering the stories as they have unfolded. Here we talk about the more immediate stories of the day such as the management of the virus in Madrid and the future for Spanish politics. Later, we then go on to explore how this situation has come about, and how the quick politicisation of the pandemi...

In 2007, the Spanish government passed the historical memory law to address issues from the country's past. Since then the law has been starved of funding and criticised as not going far enough. The new coalition government has put forward a new law named the Democratic Memory. This law will look at exhumations of mass graves, education, prosecutions and the Valley of the Fallen. It is set to be b...

In a special edition of Sobremesa, I interview researcher and Phd candidate Alícia Hernàndez Grande. Here she explains the history behind the independence movement and Diada, the national day of Catalonia. She also shares her observations from the 2017 referendum and where the Catalan identity comes from.

In this episode I interview Professor Sandie Holguin about the regional identities in Spain and how they interact with the national identity. We also discuss the EU and how it forms a part of the political scene in Spanish politics today. Before the Interview I share an update on current Spanish affairs

In this episode of Sobremesa we get an update on the national situation and an interview with cultural and intellectual historian Professor Sandie Holguin. Here we talk about the construction of the national identity which in recent years has increased in its popularity.