Filling the Sink
Little by little the sink fills up… Filling the Sink is a podcast in English on all things Catalan. Every month the Catalan News team explores a different aspect of Catalonia, from news and politics, to society and culture. Whether you live in Catalonia and need some of the current issues explained, or you’re simply curious about what makes this place tick. Either way, Filling the Sink has got you covered. Don’t worry if you don’t know much about this corner of land nestled between the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean. As they say in Catalonia, "de mica en mica, s‘omple la pica" - little by little, the sink fills up.
Filling the Sink is a podcast from Catalan News.
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Episodes
Saturday Nov 21, 2020
Saturday Nov 21, 2020
How to deal with the legacy of the Civil War and the Franco dictatorship? 45 years after the dictator's death and the Pact of Forgetting, the calls to remember are getting louder. Carles Vallejo, tortured by Francoist police, gives his account. Lorcan Doherty is joined by Cristina Tomàs White and Alan Ruiz Terol to discuss the issues, from mass graves and Francoist symbols, to the annulment of crimes and how history is taught in schools.
For the latest news in Catalonia: CatalanNews.com
Music used: Inspired by Kevin MacLeod [Creative Commons]
Saturday Nov 14, 2020
Saturday Nov 14, 2020
Filling the Sink is filling its basket with rovellons, camagrocs and trompetes de la mort as we go foraging for mushrooms. Full-time journalist and part-time mushroom hunter Alan Ruiz Terol heads into the woods with his guide Aniol on a quest to find the tastiest, most unusually-named mushrooms in Catalonia. Forager Brian Russell reveals why, unlike most, he's happy to let people know his favorite mushroom picking spots. Cristina Tomàs White and Guifré Jordan join Lorcan Doherty to discuss the rural-urban divide over mushrooms, how to cook them once you've found them, and some more of the weird and wonderful names that the Catalan language has for the various species.
For the latest news in Catalonia: CatalanNews.com
Music used: Inspired by Kevin MacLeod [Creative Commons]
Friday Nov 06, 2020
Friday Nov 06, 2020
Lorcan Doherty is joined by Natacha Maurin and Cillian Shields to discuss the current Covid-19 situation in Catalonia and to reflect on the last eight months of living with the pandemic.
Enric Álvarez from the BIOCOM research group at UPC (Polytechnic University of Catalonia) shares some of his insights around the latest Covid data, both in Catalonia and across Europe.
For the latest on Covid-19 in Catalonia visit CatalanNews.com
Music used: Inspired by Kevin MacLeod [Creative Commons]
Friday Oct 30, 2020
Friday Oct 30, 2020
In the red corner, the undisputed champion of autumnal holidays in Catalonia, it’s La Castanyada. And in the blue corner, the challenger. It’s got costumes, it’s got candy, it’s Halloween. Which should be celebrated on October 31 in Catalonia? The debate is on. The coronavirus pandemic means this year's festivities won't be anything like normal, but what does the future hold for these two holidays? Lorcan Doherty, Cristina Tomàs White and Alan Ruiz Terol pull no punches as they look at whether Castanyada and Halloween can happily co-exist, or if one of them is doomed to disappear.
Music used: Inspired by Kevin MacLeod [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/]
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Q: What is Filling the Sink?
A: A podcast in English on all things Catalan.