Basques Face the Future

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Five years after one of the longest armed struggles in modern Western Europe, Maria Margaronis travels to Spain ahead of important elections in the Basque Autonomous region. Hundreds of people died in the Basque conflict which finally came to an end when the separatist group ETA announced a permanent ceasefire. Now there is peace. But what has happened to the Basque dreams of an independent state? The issue hasn’t gone away: Arnaldo Otegi, a former member of ETA who helped broker the peace, has been banned from standing in the elections, to the outrage of his supporters. Produced by Mark Savage

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0:00.0	Thank you for downloading this edition of assignment on the BBC World Service.
0:03.6	I'm Maria Margaronis and I've been in the Basque Autonomous Community in Spain
0:08.0	where an election for the Parliament that runs the region has revived the prickly question of Basque independence.
0:15.7	We're in the seaside town of Loketio where there's a traditional festival going on and it's
0:21.7	milling with people all wearing navy blue and white
0:24.6	which is the traditional colors people wear in the fishing villages and where you
0:29.3	can hear the atmosphere people are standing in the street, drinking, talking, and there's going to be a
0:35.4	competition later on to decapitate a goose down in the port. Luckily the goose is already dead.
0:43.0	Oh!
0:44.0	She's just been sprayed with water or beer or wine.
0:48.0	I don't know what it was.
0:49.0	It was weather.
0:50.0	It was weather.
0:51.0	That's our guide, Amaya Alvarez-Byraste.
0:54.0	See what they are drinking there?
0:56.0	That's Kalimotso.
0:57.0	It's a mixture of red wine and Coke.
0:59.0	Red wine and Coke?
1:00.0	Yes, very popular here.
1:02.0	I know, I know. wine and Coke? Coke. It's a party, a street fair, a family fiesta.
1:08.8	The sun is hot, the fishing boats are painted in bright colours.
1:12.3	The only reminders of the Basque
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