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The Team Behind Puerta del Sol Audio Magazine
Toni Garrido
Toni Garrido has been a regular presence on Spanish radio and television as an anchor of the Cadena SER's weekend Gran Via and TeleMadrid's Alcalá Club and as a host of the popular groudbreaking satirical TV program Caiga quien caiga.
María Fernanda Lencina
Argentinian journalist and broadcaster, María Fernanda Lencina, worked in
her native Buenos Aires for four years before being sent to Madrid as news
coordinator in Europe for Unión Radio. She is now also Deputy Editor and
co-presenter of Ser Latino, a weekly radio program broadcast on Cadena SER covering Latin American news and current affairs.
Frank Smith
Frank Smith, senior producer with BBC Radio in London for nearly 20 years, moved to Madrid in 1992, as BBC correspondent in Spain, from where he has also written for The Times and The Observer. He is now the head of Modern Languages at San Pablo CEU University in Madrid.
Jonathan Holland
Jonathan Holland has lived in Madrid since 1990. A university lecturer in language and a film reviewer for Variety in the U.S., he has also published a novel, The Escape Artist, as we as a travel guide to Spain and many articles about aspects of Spanish life.
Severino Donate
Severino has worked in the Madrid studios of the SER Radio Network as a reporter, script-writer, and occasional host for a variety of radio programs. He is currently an editor at the SER's main network news desk.
Carmen Brauning
Born in Valdivia, Chile, Carmen studied at Universidad Austral in Chile and Hull University where she gained an MA in Philosophy in Modern Spanish Poetry in 1979. Since 1982 she has worked at Bristol University where she is now a senior lecturer in Hispanic studies and head of the Spanish language-laboratory program.
Isabel Moreno
Isabel Moreno, originally from Seville, is a literature teacher specializing in the Spanish Golden Age. Here work has been published in several academic journals.
María Luisa García
María combines her training in journalism and her expertise as a professional folklorist with a successful career in music as a performer with the folk group Raíces devoted to the study and presentation of traditional Spanish and Sephardic music.
Can't wait two months for your next fix of Puerta del Sol? The Puerta del Sol Blog, written by Puerta del Sol Notes editor Jonathan Holland, will appeal to anyone who loves our Spanish Audio Magazines and wants more of the inside track on all things to do with Spain and Spanish culture.
Recent highlights from the Puerta del Sol Blog:
Photoclima is one book which the Spanish Tourist Board will be hoping doesn’t make the bestseller lists this Christmas. Published by Greenpeace, it features digitally altered images of what well-known Spanish resorts could look like in the future. The above, circulating the Internet at the moment and taken here from the Guardian, shows La Manga del Mar, in Murcia - top three images before, bottom three after. A neat scare tactic: someone should make the movie.
Posted by Jonathan Holland
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Isabel Moreno
Isabel Moreno, originally from Seville, is a literature teacher specializing in the Spanish golden age. Her work has been published in several acedemic journals. |
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Frank Smith
Frank Smith, senior producer with BBC Radio in London for nearly 20 years, moved to Madrid in 1992, as BBC correspondant in Spain, from where he has also written for The Times and The Observer. He is now the head of modern Languages at San Pablo-CEU University in Madrid. |
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Maria Luisa Garcia
Maria combines her training in journalism and her expertise as a professional folklorist with a successful career in music as a performer with the folk group Raices devoted to the study and preservation of traditional Spanish and Sephardic music. |
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Severino Donate
Severino has worked in the Madrid studios of the SER Radio network as a reporter, script-writer, and occasional host for a variety of radio programs. He is currently an editor at the SER's main national news desk. |
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Jonathan Holland
Jonathan Holland has lived in Madrid since 1990. A university lecturer inlanguage and literature and a film reviewer for Variety in the U.S., he has also published a novel, The Escape Artist, as well as a travel guide to Spain and many articles about aspects of Spanish life. |
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"My question may be an ignorant one, but I can't seem to find the answer anywhere.Why have many (or most) Spaniards stopped using their two last names?
As I have always lived in the US, I commonly use just my father's last name (Lopez), but have always identified myself to Spanish speakers..."
Jose Antonio Lopez Neira
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