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Spain - PI Pepe Carvalho

Foreign Bodies Series 1
Episode 8 of 15

The Pepe Carvalho novels by Manuel VΓ΅zquez MontalbΓ΅n depict tensions in post-Franco Spain from 1975. Mark Lawson investigates.

In his Pepe Carvalho novels, Manuel VΓ΅zquez MontalbΓ΅n created a Barcelona-based private eye with a gastronomic passion, whose investigations are set against political developments in post-Franco Spanish society.

Mark Lawson continues his series looking at European history through crime fiction - discussing the books of MontalbΓ΅n with Antonio Hill and Jason Webster - whose own crime novels depict contemporary Spain.

Producer: Robyn Read

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in 2012.

15 minutes

Last on

Thu 9 May 2019 02:15
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