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Now what do you get if you stir together Matidores,

cool Cabana, Senuretas by the score, flamenco dancers,

castanets, maracas, and endlessly sunny days.

Well, something very like this.

Oh, this year I'm off to sunny Spain.

Eviva Espania. I'm taking the custom Bravo plane

He Viva Espania

If you'd like to check the Matador in San Kulkevania and meet Seniorita Spidesko

Espania by Sylvia.

That's a song, I was surprised if I was so old, 71, 1971. And it's a song that's often said to mark the beginning of the

British love affair with the package holiday but also a song which contains at least

some of the ingredients which prompted many British people to seek retirement in Spain.

Well, television with its customary cruel appetite has brought us dramatic stories of how Spanish

reality often failed to match that dream but a new book which focuses

specifically on British working-class women who retired to Spain in search of

community provides a much more nuanced portrait of the pleasures and pains of retirement migration.

Its title is Retiring to Spain, Women's Narratives of Nostalgia, Belonging and Community.

It's author who's now with me in the studio is Anya Ahmed who is senior lecturer in

social policy at the University of Salford.

You, I think you, and you first became interested in looking at these female retirees to

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