HeyJaredThe Sobremesa Podcast
The Sobremesa Podcast is about modern-day Spanish society, politics and history, without the stereotypes. Please donate at to make the podcast sustainable: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thesobremey
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 4
- Latest publication
- Sep 24, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 12, 2026
Latest episodes
The Spanish Transition: From the Streets to the State (opens the original)
Read excerpt
In the first episode of our new series on the Spanish Transition, Alan McGuire speaks to historian Alejandro Quiroga, Senior Lecturer of History at Complutense University of Madrid, about the political economy of Spain’s passage from dictatorship to democracy. How did a movement for democratic change that started on the streets become a process negotiated between political parties and political elites? We also dispel the myth that it was a peaceful transition. We discuss far-right terrorism, pol
Sánchez's Failure on Ceuta (opens the original)
Read excerpt
As the ongoing fallout from the Ceuta border surge continues to dominate Spanish headlines, we examine the government's management of crisis and how it dropped the ball after its initial success in containing the influx. As always if you like what we are producing please consider leaving us a donation at our Buy Me a Coffee Page. https://buymeacoffee.com/thesobremey
Ceuta and Spanish Foreign Policy (opens the original)
Read excerpt
As between 70 and 80,000 people streamed into Spain’s small North African exclave of Ceuta two weeks ago, the global far-right mobilized to foment moral panic - weaponising the dramatic scenes of the predominantly younger Moroccans swimming into Spanish territory to spread a narrative of Europe’s invasion. This misinformation campaign continued even as Spanish authorities swiftly acted to return the vast majority of arrivals within a 24 hour period. 15 days later debate still rages about what ex
San Fermín Beyond Hemingway (opens the original)
Read excerpt
2026 marks the centenary of Ernest Hemingway’s novel ‘The Sun also Rises’, which brought Pamplona’s San Fermín festival international fame. Yet beyond its place in Hemingway’s iconic novel and the yearly international news reports of tourists injured or even dying in the running of the bulls, the fiestas of San Fermín has also served as a symbolic battleground in Navarre's unresolved identity conflict. As the capital of Navarre, Pamplona sits at the intersection of two competing national project
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Not enough subject data for this period yet.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.