by Tim Parfitt | Sep 19, 2018 | Blog, Radio
Belated post … this is The Weekly Noticias show No.17, broadcast on 25 July 2018 on MetroFM in Barcelona. We return this evening (Weds 19 Sept) for Show No.18, which will also be broadcast on Madrid City Council’s public radio station, M21 on 20 Sept. More...
by Tim Parfitt | Jul 21, 2018 | Blog, Radio
The Weekly Noticias returned at the start of July, and we’ve already broadcast 3 more shows on MetroFM in Barcelona on 4 July, 11 July & 18 July. Videos and podcasts are below for each of these latest shows. We’re doing one more show on 25 July before...
by Tim Parfitt | Jul 8, 2018 | Blog
The rapper, ‘Valtonyc’, convicted by Spain to three and a half years in prison over the lyrics of his songs (in which he ‘glorified terrorism’ and criticised the monarchy), gave a press conference on Thursday in Brussels, where he’d fled to in May to avoid jail. The...
by Tim Parfitt | Jul 1, 2018 | Blog
I haven’t updated this blog since 17th June – 14 days ago. That’s about the same number of days that Iñaki Urdangarin, brother-in-law to the king of Spain, has been locked up in a women’s prison … supposedly in Brieva, in the Avila region. That’s assuming he is locked...
by Tim Parfitt | Jun 26, 2018 | Blog
I was invited back on ‘The English Hour’ on El Punt-Avui TV last week (Thurs 21 June), a local Barcelona TV channel, hosted by Matthew Tree, alongside two other guests, the former Consul General in Barcelona, Geoff Cowling, and Irish lawyer and writer, Frank...