El Barrio de las letras is Madrid's literary district, full of history and paved with words of great Spanish authors... Literally. Felicity Hughes, writer for the new Lonely Planet Madrid tour guides, has just written a book all about the neighbourhood explaining its history and its authors. She joins us in the studio, along with David Price, English bookshop owner in the barrio. So, today's broadcast is a bookish one, as it coincides with World Book Day, which is also the anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes' death.  Escuchar audio ..read more

This year, eighteen masterpieces from the Prado Museum's collection will be seen in museums in different regions all around Spain. Works from painters such as Murillo, Velázquez, Rubens and el Greco. In today's broadcast we talk to the Prado Museum's Manager of Preservation, Víctor Cajeao, to learn more about this project, which has the support of Telefónica, Spain's telecommunications company that celebrated it's one-hundredth anniversary on Friday. Escuchar audio ..read more

A few weeks ago a Spanish judge ordered the closing of Telegram in Spain, an instant messagging platform with more than 8 million users in the country. This decision came after a complaint from media organizations Mediaset, Atresmedia and Movistar Plus, accusing the platforms of allowing users to share copyrighted content. The order sparked a wave of criticism and raised a lot of questions about censorship and free speech. Eventually, the ban was suspended by the same judge who, after a police report, considered it was "disproportionate". The ban of social media platforms is not excl ..read more

"Tourists go home", graffitis with these words were found in the walls of the island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. But what some British media have called a "war against the Brits" is not a rejection to tourism but the defense of biodiversity and decent living conditions for locals. According to the Canarian government, in 2023, the islands received more than 14 million tourists, a huge amount, especially taking into account that the islands have a population of around 2 million people. The mass tourism model that was developed in the last years is putting the islands' bio ..read more

April 10th is the International Day of Science and Technology, a day established by the general conference of UNESCO to highlight the value of scientific and technological advances. This date also honours Doctor Bernardo Houssay, the first Latin American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1947 for his discoveries in Physiology and Medicine. To celebrate this important date, we will be meeting S.A.R.A.H.  S.A.R.A.H., which stands for Smart AI Resource Assistant for Health, is one example of science and technology being used to provide a useful service for citizens ..read more

Today we'll be talking about The Art of Manga. Manga, for those who don't know, are Japanese graphic novels, and anime is Japanese animation in the same style. This year, the anime film The Boy and the Heron won best animated film at the Oscars, and anime series and films are growing more and more popular outside of Japan... as are the manga they are often based on. The Art of Manga exhibition opened last week in Madrid, and it covers the history of manga with a section focusing on the arrival of manga and anime in Spain.  We visted the exhibition in the Colegio d ..read more

April 7th is World Health Day, a day sponsored by the World Health Organization to draw attention about health and raise awareneess abour certain health-related issues. This year's theme is "My health, my right" which aims to "champion the right of everyone, everywhere to have access to quality health services, education, and information" and promote healthy habits and a healthy environment. On this broadcast we speak with two Spanish scientists who are involved in pioneer investigations that could potentially improve diagnosis and treatment for Alzheimer's disease and cancer.  On the one ..read more

It has been 85 years since the end of the Spanish Civil War and the beginning of the Francoist dictatorship. The war between the Republicans and the Nationalists took place between the year 1936 and 1939 and marked a dark period in the history of Spain. And even today, Spanish society continues to suffer the consequences of this conflict. Despite the obvious importance of this time period, there are no national museums to remember the war. On this broadcast we learn about the first and only museum about the Spanish Civil War, which is not based in Spain, but in Canada ..read more

The word engineer has its origin in the latin "ingenium", a word associated with the mental capacity to develop and design new things. Any person who has the will to innovate and create something could be an engineer, regardless of their gender. Still, we find that women are a minority in the engineering field, in fact, according to data from the Spanish Institute of Women, women represent only 20% of engineers, when they represent a 54% of all university students. The reasons behind this are numerous, Sara Gómez, engineer and PhD in Materials engineering from the Poly-technic Univer ..read more

On today's broadcast we retrieve a special program from our archives. Written by Jesus Carreras and translated to English by our colleague Alison Hughes, this broadcast tells us about how Holy Week is celebrated in the regions of Spain.  Escuchar audio ..read more