Division. Corruption. Incompetence: A History of Spain
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 1:21.9 | This is a pretty depressing podcast, to be honest with you, and I wasn't expecting it to be. |
| 1:26.5 | We've had a lot of Holocaust pods on me recently. We've had strategic bombing. I mean, I thought I'd heard it all. |
| 1:31.5 | But this one just got me. Professor Paul Preston at the LSE in London is the world's leading |
| 1:39.3 | expert on modern Spanish history. He's not exactly cheer cheerleader for how things were done in Spain. |
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