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Duncan Wheeler

Duncan Wheeler

Professor and Chair of Spanish Studies at the University of Leeds, expert on Spanish cinema, culture and politics.

Sep 28, 2026

3:50
Could you talk to us a little bit about some of the moments, the milestones that have taken place in Spanish popular culture? I mean, I think
3:57
there's a series of milestones.
3:59
I mean, what it reminds me of in many ways, and obviously they're very different things, different phenomenon, but I think the kind of the media and social response or our analogies is I remember when suddenly in the early 2000s, domestic violence or gender-based violence in Spain just became this huge media topic.
4:17
You couldn't open a paper or put on the news without hearing about it.
4:20
And I think it's obviously not that suddenly sexual, you know, sexual abuse, sexual attacks have begun.
4:26
Suddenly there's an epidemic of it.
4:27
What I think has happened is it's less of a taboo subject and people are beginning to talk about it.

11 MINS LATER

15:56
I wonder what you made of that tension.

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