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The Sobremesa Podcast — 140 episodes

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1

San Fermín Beyond Hemingway

2

Sánchez under Siege

3

Tribulete 7: The Building on the Frontline of Madrid's Housing Crisis

4

Conquistadors and Culture Wars

5

The Battle over Picasso's Guernica

6

Gabriel Rufian and the Spanish left

7

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

8

Sánchez on the World Stage

9

Francoist Prison Worlds: Totalitarianism and Social Control

10

Barcelona and the 1936 Popular Olympics

11

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

12

Poetry of the International Brigaders

13

2025 - The Year in Spanish Politics

14

Fields of Exploitation: Corporate Farming in Spain

15

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

16

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

17

Spanish Football under Franco: Sportswashing Avant la Lettre

18

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

19

Spain, Palestine, and the Politics of Solidarity

20

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

21

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

22

Corruption in PSOE: Sánchez on the Ropes

23

Sobremesa Live! The Last Days of Alicante by Alan McGuire

24

Franco’s Holy War and The Catholic Church

25

Paul Preston on Franco

26

Spanish Blackout as Europe Rearms

27

A Political Guide to Semana Santa

28

Free Culture and the City with Alberto Corsín Jiménez

29

Spain's Housing Crisis 2025 with Koldo Casla

30

Vox, Musk and the Reactionary International

31

Barcelona's Hidden Civil War Monuments

32

Spanish Crowds - Carnaval, Fiestas and Protests

33

Spanish Politics: The Year in Review 2024

34

Michael Eaude on Spain's Reckoning with Its Past

35

Stories Left in Stone: Tales from Cáceres Extremadura

36

Anger and Rage in Valencia after the Floods

37

Mass Deaths in Valencia after Flooding and Political Failure

38

Inside Opus Dei - From Francoism to Trump

39

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

40

Anarchism and Sexuality in 1930s Spain

41

Inequalities in Contemporary Spain

42

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

43

Protests and Palmas: A Social History of Flamenco

44

Spectral Spain: Post-Franco Gothic Fiction with Heidi Backes

45

Spain's European Elections with Laura Seoane and Tim Syme

46

Online Politics in Spain: From 15M to the Fachosfera

47

Craft consciousness: Workers organisation in Early Modern Barcelona

48

Catalan Election Special: Historic losses for the Independence Movement

49

Why Rosalia is Not Your Friend - with Anita Fuentes

50

Pedro Sánchez's Cliffhanger Decision!!!

51

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

52

Forged in Spain: British Volunteers and the Spanish Civil War

53

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

54

Athletic Club Bilbao: A Unique Team

55

Portugal Turns Right in General Election

56

Spanish Civil War Refugees in France

57

Franco's Poet and El Desencanto with Aaron Shulman

58

The Many Lives of al-Andalus with Eric Calderwood

59

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

60

Spanish Politics: The Year in Review 2023

61

Spanish Cinema: Best Films of 2023

62

Spain's New Progressive Coalition Government!!!

63

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

64

Historic Amnesty Law for Catalunya

65

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

66

Touristification in Barcelona with Carlos Delclós

67

Lisbon: Housing, Digital Nomads and Sandwiches with Joana Ramiro

68

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

69

Revisiting Al-Andalus with Mahmoud Hosny Roshdy

70

The Two Contemporary Spains: Plurinationalism, Nostalgia and Vox

71

Spain After 23J

72

Spanish Election Special!!!

73

Spain's Election Is Too Close To Call

74

Spain's Surprise Snap Election!!!

75

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

76

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

77

From Podemos to Sumar: The Renewal of the Spanish Left

78

How to Remember the International Brigades

79

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

80

An Introduction to Spanish Film with Steven Marsh

81

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

82

Pontevedra: Spain's Most Liveable City

83

The Other Empty Spain with Nerea Fernandez Cordero

84

Spanish Politics: The Year in Review 2022

85

Masculinities and Aging with Jose Armengol

86

Spanish Cinema 2022

87

The Political Uses of the Prado

88

Javier Marías: An Uneasy Spaniard

89

A New History of Catalonia with Andrew Dowling

90

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

91

Summers over! Global Tourism and the Catalan independence movement

92

Scottish Volunteers and the International Brigades with Fraser Raeburn

93

Spaniards in the British Army with Sean Scullion

94

Spain's Democratic Memory Law Finally Approved!

95

The Making of Lavapies with Felicity Hughes

96

Massacre in Melilla

97

Andalusian Elections and Spain's Right-Turn

98

The Spanish Government's Historic Feminist Agenda

99

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

100

Barcelona and the Spanish Civil War

101

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

102

Catalan Gate

103

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

104

The Industrialization of Asturias with Luke Bowe

105

Pedro Sanchez and Western Sahara with Nazha Elkhalidi #Saharalibre

106

Episode 44: The Symbolic State with Karlo Basta

107

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

108

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

109

Episode 41: Exhuming Franco with Sebastiaan Faber

110

Episode 40: The Future of Unidas Podemos

111

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

112

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

113

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

114

Episode 36: European Super League with Tommy Hay

115

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

116

Episode 34: Gender Violence with Dr Deborah Madden

117

Episode 33: Spanish Feminism with Elia Romera Figueroa

118

Episode 32: Spanish Start Ups with Joe Haslam

119

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

120

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

121

Episode 29: Catalan Politics 101 with Andrew Dowling

122

Episode 28: Vox and Spanish Nationalism

123

Episode 27: Spanish municipalism with Vicente Rubio-Pueyo

124

Episode 26: Territorial politics in Spain with Caroline Gray

125

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

126

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

127

Episode 23: After the Fall with author Tobias Buck

128

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

129

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

130

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

131

Left Populism in Spain and the USA with Jorge Tamames

132

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

133

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

134

The Dina Case with Tommy Greene

135

Pandemic Politics: an Interview with Eoghan Gilmartin

136

The New Democratic Memory Law: a discussion with Tom Wardle

137

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

138

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

139

The National Spanish Identity: an Interview with Professor Sandie Holguin

140

Spain's Memory Wars: an interview with Tom Wardle