Islas Británicas: Gales

El turno esta vez es para el arte, la cultura y la moda boricua. Exploramos la fascinante 'cultura del vaivén', ese movimiento constante de ideas entre la isla, su marco geográfico y su diáspora que define a una nación sin fronteras. En este recorrido, descubriremos la herencia d ...  Show more

Hoy nos adentraremos en el fascinante universo de la cocina criolla puertorriqueña. Más que una simple lista de ingredientes, la gastronomía de la isla es un poderoso fenómeno de sincretismo cultural que ha evolucionado durante cinco siglos como un proceso de adaptación y resiste ...  Show more

Dafydd Morse kindly joined me on the show this week to introduce us to Wales - his home country on the west side of Britain. I feel like the Welsh culture (people, language, etc.) is often overlooked on a global scale, and perhaps some of you are hearing about it for the first ti ...  Show more

What are the origins of Wales? And how do the Welsh define themselves against Englishness? As England play Wales in the World Cup today, Tom and Dominic are joined by Martin Johnes, Professor of History at the University of Swansea, to explore the age old rivalry between the two ...  Show more

In Welsh history, the period that lies between the medieval era of resistance to English occupation, and the rapid industrialisation of the 18th and 19th centuries, is often forgotten. Yet, there was much more going on in Wales in the early modern period than might initially meet ...  Show more

The Anglo-Saxons represent one of the most vital and important periods in English history, but then why do we know so very little about them? Marc Morris, historian and author of The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, takes Nick Cohen on a journey though one of ...  Show more