The Sobremesa Podcast
Episodes
Episode 42: Riders Law with Ben Wray from Brave New Europe’s Gig Economy Project
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Wray is a freelance journalist leading Brave New Europe’s Gig Economy Project. He joins me to explain how the Riders law came about in Spain, an...
Episode 41: Exhuming Franco with Sebastiaan Faber
22 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Sobremesa Podcast has slowed down for August like the rest of Spain. But here is some summer listening for you, no matter where you are!Sebastiaan...
Episode 40: The Future of Unidas Podemos
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sorry this episode is a bit late but I have covid!Recorded two weeks ago, Nerea Fernández Cordero, Co-coordinadora at IU Exterior (Izquierda Unida), ...
Episode 39: Catalan Political Prisoners Get a Pardon With Andrew Dowling
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Following last weeks news on the pardon of the 9 Catalan political prisoners, jailed following the referendum in 2017, I discuss the issue with ...
Episode 38: Nazi Germany and Spain with Dr Mercedes Peñalba-Sotorrío
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Mercedes Peñalba-Sotorrío, a lecturer and researcher from Manchester Metropolitan University, joins me to discuss the relationship between Nazi G...
Episode 37: #4M Madrid Elections 2021 with Caroline Gray and Eoghan Gilmartin
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With the communidad elections less than a week away Caroline Gray and Eoghan Gilmartin both join me to discuss the political earthquake that led to th...
Episode 36: European Super League with Tommy Hay
25 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the European Super League launched but it hasn't gone smoothly. In the UK all 6 big teams were forced to pull out by their fans, the media ...
Episode 35: The Treatment of Sexual Minorities in the Late-Francoist Period with Sonia Cuesta Maniar
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sonia Cuesta joins me to discuss the treatment of sexual minorities by the Spanish state during the late period of the Francoist dictatorship. Son...
Episode 34: Gender Violence with Dr Deborah Madden
20 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Feminism is huge movement in Spain, but why? Gender violence is a polemical topic in Spain. Dr Deborah Madden joins me to discuss how, in recent ye...
Episode 33: Spanish Feminism with Elia Romera Figueroa
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years feminism has boomed in countries such as Argentina and Mexico. Likewise, in Europe the movement has been most active in the south, mai...
Episode 32: Spanish Start Ups with Joe Haslam
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Spanish government recently announced 11 billion euros for small, medium sized companies in the hard-hit tourism sector. Will it be enough? And wh...
Episode 31: Basque Nationalism: The Origins of Basque Nationalism and Anti-colonialist Rhetoric with Maria Reyes Baztán
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nationalism has made a comeback in the 21st century and Spain is not exempt. Often people mistake Spain for a large country, when in fact it is a ...
Episode 30: The Catalan Elections (and the following week)
21 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Dowling joins me again to discuss the Catalan election results. We also discuss and analyse the protests/riots that have followed the arrest...
Episode 29: Catalan Politics 101 with Andrew Dowling
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On Sunday the 14th February, Catalonia will go to the polls, this time to elect a regional government. This is the second regional election since ...
Episode 28: Vox and Spanish Nationalism
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vicente Rubio-Pueyo is a Spanish academic based in New York. In the second part of my interview with him we discuss Spanish nationalism and the ri...
Episode 27: Spanish municipalism with Vicente Rubio-Pueyo
31 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vicente Rubio-Pueyo is a Spanish academic based in New York and member of Minim, a municipalist observatory. He sat down with me to discuss modern...
Episode 26: Territorial politics in Spain with Caroline Gray
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Sobremesa podcast I interview Caroline Gray. Here we talk about territorial politics of both the left and right in Spain since ...
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
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
10 years ago in 2011, Spain went through a crisis of representation. Until then, Spain had been praised as exceptional for its peaceful transition fro...
Episode 24: Brexit Special: One Leaver, One Remainer. Both Live in Spain
31 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this one-off special episode, I discuss brexit with two Brits that live in Spain. One voted leave and the other voted remain. Here is why. Richa...
Episode 23: After the Fall with author Tobias Buck
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here I got to interview author and former Financial Times Spain correspondent Tobias Buck. We talk about corruption, austerity, Rajoy, Podemos and ...
Episode 22: History of Anarchism in Spain with Danny and Jim from the ABC Podcast Part Two
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 foun...
Episode 21: History of Anarchism in Spain with Danny and Jim from the ABC Podcast
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 foun...
Episode 19: A New Image of Spain? with Paul Burge from the When in Spain Podcast
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Left Populism in Spain and the USA with Jorge Tamames
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Sobremesa podcast, I chat with journalist and political researcher Jorge Tamames about the history and current state of populis...
The History of the Housing Crisis and the birth of the PAH movement with Sophie Gonick
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week the Sobremesa Podcast talks with Sophie Gonick from New York University about her up and coming book: Dispossession and Dissent. We talk...
An interview with Giles Tremlett: The International Brigades. Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Giles Tremlett joins me on the Sobremesa Podcast to discuss his latest book: The International Brigades. Fascism, Freedom, and the Spanish Civil War. ...
The Dina Case with Tommy Greene
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week saw the end of the political jousting between the central government and the Madrid regional government. This reached a climax on Friday ...
Pandemic Politics: an Interview with Eoghan Gilmartin
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
The New Democratic Memory Law: a discussion with Tom Wardle
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 fun...
Diada, The National Day of Catalonia: an Interview with Alícia Hernàndez Grande
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In a special edition of Sobremesa, I interview researcher and Phd candidate Alícia Hernàndez Grande. Here she explains the history behind the indepe...
7/9/2020 Regional Identity and the EU: an Interview with Professor Sandie Holguin (part 2)
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I interview Professor Sandie Holguin about the regional identities in Spain and how they interact with the national identity. We also ...
The National Spanish Identity: an Interview with Professor Sandie Holguin
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Sobremesa we get an update on the national situation and an interview with cultural and intellectual historian Professor Sandie Hol...
Spain's Memory Wars: an interview with Tom Wardle
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas