The Hay Festival is coming to Segovia, bringing with it events in English and Spanish from international speakers about literature and the arts. Eley Williams is the author of The Liar's Dictionary, and at the festival she will be in conversation with Cristina Ward, head of Arts of British Council Spain. They joined us ahead of the festival here at the English Language Broadcast, and we can now offer a teaser of what the discussion might offer: the origin of words and the fun of them.

The Hay Festival Segovia will run September 12-15.

We've seen them in TV, cinema and video games, but the more often than not, the image we have of Vikings has been mythologized and romanticized, overlooking the true richness of their culture and society.

Now, an exhibition in Galicia aims to shed some light onto their daily lives and culture. "Una vida Vikinga" (A viking life) brings the public closer to this civilization and challenges popular misconceptions, myths and stereotypes about its society. To tell us more about this exhibition, we spoke with curator Irene García.

Also on this broadcast, we learn about "The child who lived: Down syndrome among Neanderthals?", a grounbreaking study that offers evidence of compassion among this species. To give us a deeper insight on this amazing discovery, we spoke with lead author and researcher, Mercedes Conde-Valderde.

For many of us, Wikipedia has become a essential part of our lives and our search history. It is probably the easiest and most convenient way to find information about any topic. However, did you know that only 22% of the biographies belong to women? The inequality in Wikipedia is only a reflection of the inequality in the real world. But, for a few years now a group of women are determined to change this reality.

Wikiesfera is a community of women that come together to edit Wikipedia. They aim to correct biases, expand women's biographies and creat new articles on relevant issues related to minorities and under-represented groups. To tell us more about their work and the importance of what they do, on this broadcast, we spoke with Patricia Horrillo, founder and project manager.

A week ago, the CEO of instant messaging service Telegram, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France for reportedly failing to prevent criminal activity on the app. And this past weekend, Brazil suspended access to the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, after Elon Musk refused to comply with the Brazilian's Government's requests.

Events like these spark discussions about censorship and freedom of speech, and figures such as Telegram's Pavel Durov and X's Elon Musk have positioned themselves at the forefront of such discussions. But how much power do these CEOs have over what is shared on their sites? And how much responsibility?

On today's broadcast we are joined by computer scientist Enrique Puertas of the European University in Madrid to discuss recent events and seek answers to these questions....

Ilse was only 11 years old when her family packed their bags and left from Germany to Chile, where they settled in a colony that looked idyllic from the outside, but in reality it was nothing of the sorts.

Ilse is a fictional character, but her memoirs are based on real stories that happened in Colonia Dignidad, a religious cult under the leadership of Nazi preacher Paul Shäfer. Emma Sepúlveda, the author of this novel, describes this place as a "concentration camp", she joined us in this broadcast to tell us about "Cuando mi cuerpo dejó de ser tu casa" (When my body stopped being your home).

A decade after the Second World War, the pessimism and hopelessness gave way to a new era in which young people became immersed in the new found phenomenon of "teenage life" and dove head first into the new cultural movements that developed during the 60s.

Mods and Rockers peacefully coexisted together in the UK, sharing the streets and the roads. That is, until 1964, when a massive fight broke out between the two groups. Chaos and wreckage filled the streets of the coastal city of Brigton and media were quick to dub these movements as "dangerous" and "decadent". And precisely because of that, their popularity increased exponentially among young people in the UK and all over the world.

Now, an exhibition here in Spain takes us back to the 60s to relive this battle and follow these movements throughout the years. To learn more about "Mods and rockers", we visited the National Anthropology Museum and spoke with director, Fernando Sáez Lara and curators, María Molinero and Susana Álvarez.

If any of you are trying to learn Spanish or any other language you might have encountered some words or some expressions that cannot be translated, And no matter how hard you try, the only way to convey these concepts is by offering a rough explanation.

Spanish is no exception and we have a few words that are particularly difficult to translate to English. Now, the British Council has compiled some of these, to help both, Spanish speakers trying to learn English and English speakers trying to learn Spanish. We learnt about them with Elsa O'Brien López, teacher and coordinator of Education Inclusion at the British council.

On the 19th of August we celebrated World Photography Day. A day dedicated to "the art, craft, science and history of photography". This year's theme was "An entire day", a project in which thousands of people shared photographs of what happens around the world in a single day.

Well to celebrate World Photography Day and get into the spirit of this year's theme, we visited a very special store in the center of Madrid, which is basically all about bringing forward the value of anonymous, mundane photographs: Churchill fotos e imágenes. We had the chance to speak with its owner, Churchill Wheeler.