Jun 25, 2016 Recorded the day after the results of the Brexit Referendum on June 23rd 2016

Feb 13, 2016 Catalonia Calling #21 is called What is wrong with RENFE? and focuses on the umpteenth disaster, which caused delays on the local railway network here in Barcelona. This might not seem important in political terms but it is because it shows an endemic problem of lack of investment and a model of state that concentrates most of its resources on the state capital, Madrid, whilst leaving peripheral powerhouses like Barcelona to go to rack and ruin. Regarding the rest of the news ... there's been some bickering between Mariano Rajoy and Pedro Sánchez but no progress on the forming of the new government in Madrid, some puppeteers were arrested for a puppet show that exalted violence, the Catalan president Carles Puigdemont met with 50 foreign consuls in Barcelona to explain the independence project to them and it looks like the CUP are going to make it difficut for Junts pel Sí to get their essential budget through Parliament. But this show is all about what's wrong with RENFE and the Spanish transport system, in general.

Nov 12, 2016 In This Week in Catalonia 39, recorded for BarcelonaCityFM on November 9th 2016, Simon Harris and Jordi Vilanova talk to US citizen Humberto Tomas and Canadian Tim Brown about Donald Trump’s amazing US Election victory. We look at the why, how and cover some of the central issues such as immigration, whilst trying to draw parallels for the situation here in Catalonia.

Aug 30, 2016 In This Week in Catalonia Show 23, recorded for BarcelonaCityFm on July 13th 2016, Simon Harris and Jordi Vilanova talk to Australian lecturer in legal English Lorne Walker about his support for RCD Espanyol, some of the differences between Anglo-Saxon and Spanish law and whether the Catalans are justified in thinking the Spanish legal system is biased against them.