Professor Paul Preston doesn’t pull his punches. His magisterial new history of modern Spain is called 'A People Betrayed'. He is the greatest living authority on Spain and he is not a fan of how that country had been governed. In this podcast he tells me a sorry story of corruption, war and brutality. And that's before the 20th Century even kicks off. This podcast, unusually, made me feel profoundly sad.
Dan talks to Jonathan Foyle in order to fully understand the history of the Notre-Dame cathedral, and how devastating this fire really is. Producer/Audio: Peter Curry
Hannah Lucinda Smith is the Times Newspaper correspondant in Istanbul. She has just written THE book on Erdogan. She explains why President Erdogan regards their expressions of national identity as an existential threat to the integrity of the Turkish state. She is followed by Michael Stephens, a...
Historian Robert Saunders from Queen Mary University of London talks about the elections in the past that he feels have most resonance and parallels today.
