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Filling the sinkFood, glorious food! Mediterranean diet and veggie trends
Filling the Sink visits Alimentaria, one of the world's biggest food and drink trade fairs. Cillian Shields learns about the Mediterranean diet, chatting artichokes with Montse Lozano from El Prat Agricultural Cooperative, olive oil with Victor Huguet from Oils of Catalonia, and pickled veg with Rioverde's Alejandra Rovira and Cristina Bezares. Cristina Tomàs White looks at the past, present and future of vegetarianism with Flax & Kale's Jordi Barri, Maria Sánchez from Noel charcuterie, and Ana Torrejón, a chemical engineer developing cultured meat with Ainia. This week's Catalan phrase is 's'ha acabat el bròquil'. Literally, 'the broccoli's over', it's used when there's nothing left of something or when something's done or finished. Presented by Lorcan Doherty.
Filling the sinkPros and cons of living in Catalonia - international community has its say
The Mediterranean climate, good food, beaches, not to mention excellent health care and public transport: what's not to like about living in Catalonia? Well, how about high rents, low salaries, and hellish bureaucracy? Those are some of the issues highlighted by Filling the Sink listeners, Catalan News readers and attendees at Barcelona International Community Day, who tell us the good, the bad and the funny side of moving to Catalonia from abroad. Cristina Tomàs White and Cillian Shields join Lorcan Doherty. This week's Catalan phrase is 'donar carbassa', literally 'to give pumpkin' it means to get rejected or turned down.
Filling the sinkParlem català? - Learning Catalan, at home and abroad
Filling the Sink listeners and Catalan News readers from around the world share their stories of how they joined the more than 9 million people that speak Catalan. Dr Afra Pujol i Campeny on the challenges of teaching her native language and what motivates students at the University of Cambridge to study it. Listeners tell us some of their favorite Catalan words, such as somiatruites, or daydreamer, which literally translates as omelette-dreamer! Presented by Lorcan Doherty with Cristina Tomàs White and Cillian Shields.
Filling the sinkAfter pardons for independence leaders, what comes next?
On June 23, 2021, after 3 and a half years behind bars, nine Catalan politicians and activists in jail for their roles during the 2017 independence push, were released after receiving pardons from the Spanish president. As well as looking back on that historic day and the lead up to it, on episode 35 of Filling the Sink we'll also be discussing what lies ahead, with a return to negotiations between the Spanish and Catalan governments on the horizon. Alan Ruiz Terol joins Lorcan Doherty to discuss why, within the independence camp, the pardons have been given a lukewarm reception, seen as a half measure falling well short of the general amnesty that they have been calling for. Marc Sanjaume-Calvet, professor of political science at the UOC, explains why the Spanish executive took this decision to pardon the independence leaders, and the impact the move could have on Spanish politics as a whole.
Filling the sinkSant Jordi's Day - books, love and roses
April 23 is one of Catalonia's most important dates of the year, when the country celebrates its patron Sant Jordi (Saint George) in unique style. Love is in the air as people browse street stalls to buy books and roses as gifts for their loved ones. In this episode of Filling the Sink, writer, publisher and director of the Institut Ramon Llull, Iolanda Batallé Prats, joins Guifré Jordan and Lorcan Doherty to discuss what makes Sant Jordi such a special day and explains how Catalan literature is going from strength to strength as more and more works are published in English translation. The acclaimed Catalan writer Marta Orriols reads from her novel Learning to Talk to Plants (Aprendre a parlar amb les plantes), winner of the 2018 Omnium Prize for Best Novel, the NoLlegiu Prize, and the Illa dels Llibres Prize for Best Novel of 2018. Excerpt in English read by Scarlett Reiners.
Filling the sinkThe truth about Catalonia's witches and witch-hunts
Sònia Casas from the Barcelona-based history magazine Sàpiens joins Alan Ruiz Terol and Lorcan Doherty to separate fact from fiction when it comes to the story of witch-hunts in Catalonia. As a recent Sàpiens issue dedicated to the subject puts it: "They weren't witches, they were women". Pau Castell, a historian at the University of Barcelona who has dedicated his career to studying witches talks about his research. "Filling the Sink" recreates the seventeenth-century trial of Elisabet Cerdana, which took place in the village of Castellterçol in central Catalonia.
Filling the sinkThe crown in crisis: Corruption scandals rock Spanish monarchy
Spain's royal family has been rocked in recent years by wave after wave of scandal and controversy. The former king, Juan Carlos I, fled to the United Arab Emirates last August amidst ongoing corruption investigations. In this episode of "Filling the sink", Swiss journalist Sylvain Besson describes how he broke the story of how Juan Carlos received 100 million dollars from Saudi Arabia and hid them in Switzerland. Cristina Tomàs White speaks to Albert Calatrava, one of the writers of "The King's Armor" ("L'armadura del rei"), a book that examines how Spain has protected its scandal-ridden monarchy for the past four decades, turning a blind eye to its sins. Guifré Jordan and Alan Ruiz Terol join Lorcan Doherty to discuss the rise and fall of the monarchy, the current crises engulfing the crown, and whether there could be a republic in the future.
Filling the sinkFirst Catalan nanosatellite in space - small step, giant leap or a load of hot air?
As Catalonia launches its first nanosatellite, science writer and educator Joan Anton Català Amigó joins the "Filling the Sink" team to talk all things space. Catalan Digital Policies minister Jordi Puigneró defends the formation of the Catalan Space Agency and explains that it's clearly not "a Catalan Nasa". Alan Ruiz Terol takes a visit to Montsec Observatory and Astronomical Park in western Catalonia, where the nanosatellite -named Enxaneta- will be controlled from after taking off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. And with Nasa's Mars Perseverance rover toiling away on the red planet, Dr Carolina Arnau Jimenez tells Cristina Tomàs White how the European Space Agency's research at the Autonomous University of Barcelona could pave the way for humans to follow suit in the future.
Filling the sinkCatalonia's booming videogame industry
Barcelona is a global hub for game developers. With Catalonia accounting for more than half of the industry's earnings in Spain, "Filling the Sink" hears from several figures in the gaming community about its successes and its challenges.
Filling the sinkIntroduction
Filling the Sink is a weekly podcast on all things Catalan. The Catalan News team brings you chat, interviews and features on everything from food to football, culture to current affairs. No need to worry if you don't know much about this corner of land nestled between the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean. As they say in Catalonia, "de mica en mica, s'omple la pica" - little by little, the sink fills up. Find out more and listen to all episodes below.