Spain’s Battle for the Bull

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Spain's national bullfighting association has warned that the tradition is in crisis. Neal Razzell reports.

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0:00.0	This is a BBC podcast.
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0:04.9	at BBCWorldservice.com slash podcasts.
0:11.0	Welcome to assignment on the BBC World Service.
0:14.0	And they're off.
0:20.0	We're in Spain for the bullfighting season. It begins with the running of the bulls.
0:26.0	In a suburb of Madrid, they closed the streets and let loose a herd of half-tun killers, which
0:31.6	is tearing after a crowd of people who think they can outrun it.
0:35.0	Oh, we can see them. Here they come now. These guys are running.
0:41.0	Whoa! Whoa!
0:43.0	Whoa!
0:44.0	Whoa!
0:45.0	There are hundreds of them, a stampede of men, women and animals.
0:51.0	Some of those guys were very close to the horns just at the bend here.
0:57.0	One was pressing his chest into the fence to avoid getting caught by it.
1:01.0	They've swept around the corner.
1:02.0	And that's it. It's all over in seconds.
1:05.0	For some, it really is all over, in seconds. More than 10 people have died in Spain's bull runs this year.
1:12.0	More than a dozen police officers have just cleared a path through the street here.
1:18.0	Two medics were carrying a man on a stretcher.
1:21.0	He was awake, but clearly he's had a bad turn.
1:24.0	Why would anyone do this?
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