Back in Lockdown: Interviews with Sara Soto and Simon Hunter

Doctor, Doctor give me some news… – The Sobremesa Podcast

In this episode of the Sobremesa Podcast, I talk to an old friend about an ongoing problem. Doctors in Spain are threatening to strike from the 28th of October over a new law passed by the government. This law is to help increase the number of staff. So what is the problem?

1. Doctor, Doctor give me some news… 37:41
2. An interview with Giles Tremlett: The International Brigades. Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War 44:31
3. The Dina Case with Tommy Greene 47:23
4. Back in Lockdown: Interviews with Sara Soto and Simon Hunter 54:02
5. Pandemic Politics: an Interview with Eoghan Gilmartin 01:00:35

Madrid has been placed in (partial) lockdown once again. In this episode I explore how this come about in two very different interviews.

Firstly, I speak with Sara Soto, Secretary of the Young Socialists of Vallecas. Here we talk about the response to lockdown on the 18th September and the effects it has had over the past two weeks. We also discuss some of the inequalities that were already in the area but have been made worse by the pandemic.

Following on from this, I catch up with Simon Hunter from El Pais in English. Here Simon tells me about the Que podcast; we also discuss the management of the pandemic from several points of view, and lastly we discuss the newest celebrity in Spain: James Rhodes.

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Don’t forget you can listen to previous episodes on the Historical Memory, the new democratic memory law, the history of the Catalan independence day and movement, the formation of the Spanish identity, and more recently how the Covid-19 pandemic has played out on a political level in the country

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