All Episodes

The Battle over Picasso's Guernica

Gabriel Rufian and the Spanish left

From Faith to Freedom: Catholicism, Liberalism, and Hispanidad in Cádiz 1812

Sánchez on the World Stage

Francoist Prison Worlds: Totalitarianism and Social Control

Re-release: Barcelona and the 1936 Popular Olympics

Re-Release: Exhuming Violent Histories: How to Tell the Story of Spain's Mass Graves

Re-Release: Poetry of the International Brigaders

2025 - The Year in Spanish Politics

Fields of Exploitation: Corporate Farming in Spain

Franco Anniversary: What Is His Regime's Legacy after 50 Years?

Between the Bottle and the Bullet: Alcohol, Drugs and the Spanish Civil War

Spanish Football under Franco: Sportswashing Avant la Lettre

Not Such a Soft Dictatorship: Francoism and the Forgotten Repression of Sexual Minorities

Spain, Palestine, and the Politics of Solidarity

Catalonia Under Franco: Repression, Co-option, and Resistance

The Spanish Path to Fascism and the Evolution of Franco's Dictatorship

Corruption in PSOE: Sánchez on the Ropes

Sobremesa Live! The Last Days of Alicante by Alan McGuire

Franco’s Holy War and The Catholic Church

Paul Preston on Franco

Spanish Blackout as Europe Rearms

A Political Guide to Semana Santa

Free Culture and the City with Alberto Corsín Jiménez

Spain's Housing Crisis 2025 with Koldo Casla

Vox, Musk and the Reactionary International

Barcelona's Hidden Civil War Monuments

Spanish Crowds - Carnaval, Fiestas and Protests

Spanish Politics: The Year in Review 2024

Michael Eaude on Spain's Reckoning with Its Past

Stories Left in Stone: Tales from Cáceres Extremadura

Anger and Rage in Valencia after the Floods

Mass Deaths in Valencia after Flooding and Political Failure

Inside Opus Dei - From Francoism to Trump

Tragedy in the Canaries Amid Spain's Anti-Immigration Turn

Anarchism and Sexuality in 1930s Spain

Inequalities in Contemporary Spain

Spain's Thrilling Victory at the Euros!! And What It Says about Spanish Society.

Protests and Palmas: A Social History of Flamenco

Spectral Spain: Post-Franco Gothic Fiction with Heidi Backes

Spain's European Elections with Laura Seoane and Tim Syme

Online Politics in Spain: From 15M to the Fachosfera

Craft consciousness: Workers organisation in Early Modern Barcelona

Catalan Election Special: Historic losses for the Independence Movement

Why Rosalia is Not Your Friend - with Anita Fuentes

Pedro Sánchez's Cliffhanger Decision!!!

Basque Election Special - Historic Gains for EH Bildu and the Independentist Left

Forged in Spain: British Volunteers and the Spanish Civil War

Paul Preston Interview: Britain's Betrayal of the Spanish Republic

Athletic Club Bilbao: A Unique Team

Portugal Turns Right in General Election

Spanish Civil War Refugees in France

Franco's Poet and El Desencanto with Aaron Shulman

The Many Lives of al-Andalus with Eric Calderwood

The Op-Ed Novel - El País and Contemporary Spanish Literature

Spanish Politics: The Year in Review 2023

Spanish Cinema: Best Films of 2023

Spain's New Progressive Coalition Government!!!

Why the Spanish Catholic Church gets away with clergy sex abuse with Miguel Hurtado

Historic Amnesty Law for Catalunya

The Playboy King: Juan Carlos and the Spanish Royal Family with James Badcock

Touristification in Barcelona with Carlos Delclós

Lisbon: Housing, Digital Nomads and Sandwiches with Joana Ramiro

The Rubiales Case: Spain's World Cup Winners against the Patriarchy

Revisiting Al-Andalus with Mahmoud Hosny Roshdy

The Two Contemporary Spains: Plurinationalism, Nostalgia and Vox

Spain After 23J

Spanish Election Special!!!

Spain's Election Is Too Close To Call

Spain's Surprise Snap Election!!!

Spain's Struggle for the Right to Housing: From 15M to the Coalition's New Housing Law

The Village Against the World: the story of Marinaleda and Juan Manuel Sanchez Gordillo with Dan Hancox

From Podemos to Sumar: The Renewal of the Spanish Left

How to Remember the International Brigades

How Antoni Gaudí Turned Me into an Anarchist: Architecture and Class in Barcelona

An Introduction to Spanish Film with Steven Marsh

Spanish Civil War Memoirs: Kate Mangan and Jan Kurzke with Simon Deefholts from The Clapton Press.

Pontevedra: Spain's Most Liveable City

The Other Empty Spain with Nerea Fernandez Cordero

Spanish Politics: The Year in Review 2022

Masculinities and Aging with Jose Armengol

Spanish Cinema 2022

The Political Uses of the Prado

Javier Marías: An Uneasy Spaniard

A New History of Catalonia with Andrew Dowling

Spain's Budget 2023: A Social Democratic Response to the Cost of Living Crisis?

Summers over! Global Tourism and the Catalan independence movement

Scottish Volunteers and the International Brigades with Fraser Raeburn

Spaniards in the British Army with Sean Scullion

Spain's Democratic Memory Law Finally Approved!

The Making of Lavapies with Felicity Hughes

Massacre in Melilla

Andalusian Elections and Spain's Right-Turn

The Spanish Government's Historic Feminist Agenda

The Other Special Relationship: Aznar & Blair and the Iraq War with Nathen Jones

Barcelona and the Spanish Civil War

Spain's new Abortion Law, Women's Rights and Menstrual leave with Deb Madden

Catalan Gate

Stalin's Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union with Karl Qualls

The Industrialization of Asturias with Luke Bowe

Pedro Sanchez and Western Sahara with Nazha Elkhalidi #Saharalibre

Episode 44: The Symbolic State with Karlo Basta

Episode 43: Why doesn't Spain have a Green Party with Xan Lopez from Contra el Diluvio

Episode 42: Riders Law with Ben Wray from Brave New Europe’s Gig Economy Project

Episode 41: Exhuming Franco with Sebastiaan Faber

Episode 40: The Future of Unidas Podemos

Episode 39: Catalan Political Prisoners Get a Pardon With Andrew Dowling

Episode 38: Nazi Germany and Spain with Dr Mercedes Peñalba-Sotorrío

Episode 37: #4M Madrid Elections 2021 with Caroline Gray and Eoghan Gilmartin

Episode 36: European Super League with Tommy Hay

Episode 35: The Treatment of Sexual Minorities in the Late-Francoist Period with Sonia Cuesta Maniar

Episode 34: Gender Violence with Dr Deborah Madden

Episode 33: Spanish Feminism with Elia Romera Figueroa

Episode 32: Spanish Start Ups with Joe Haslam

Episode 31: Basque Nationalism: The Origins of Basque Nationalism and Anti-colonialist Rhetoric with Maria Reyes Baztán

Episode 30: The Catalan Elections (and the following week)

Episode 29: Catalan Politics 101 with Andrew Dowling

Episode 28: Vox and Spanish Nationalism

Episode 27: Spanish municipalism with Vicente Rubio-Pueyo

Episode 26: Territorial politics in Spain with Caroline Gray

Episode 25: 15-M, 10 Years On: In conversation with Cristina Flesher Fominaya on her recent book Democracy Reloaded: Inside Spain’s Political Laboratory from 15-M to Podemos

Episode 24: Brexit Special: One Leaver, One Remainer. Both Live in Spain

Episode 23: After the Fall with author Tobias Buck

Episode 22: History of Anarchism in Spain with Danny and Jim from the ABC Podcast Part Two

Episode 21: History of Anarchism in Spain with Danny and Jim from the ABC Podcast

Episode 19: A New Image of Spain? with Paul Burge from the When in Spain Podcast

Left Populism in Spain and the USA with Jorge Tamames

The History of the Housing Crisis and the birth of the PAH movement with Sophie Gonick

An interview with Giles Tremlett: The International Brigades. Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War

The Dina Case with Tommy Greene

Pandemic Politics: an Interview with Eoghan Gilmartin

The New Democratic Memory Law: a discussion with Tom Wardle

Diada, The National Day of Catalonia: an Interview with Alícia Hernàndez Grande

7/9/2020 Regional Identity and the EU: an Interview with Professor Sandie Holguin (part 2)

The National Spanish Identity: an Interview with Professor Sandie Holguin

Spain's Memory Wars: an interview with Tom Wardle