S1 E1: What can Pan's Labyrinth tell us about life in Franco's Spain?
Pan’s Labyrinth is Guillermo del Toro’s 2006 masterpiece in which a young girl’s fantasy world, populated by fauns, giant frogs, and a man with eyes in his hands, and the realities of 1940s war torn Spain intertwine. But what can Pan’s Labyrinth tell us about life in Franco’s Spain? Featuring historians Dr Sam Manning and Dr Morris Brodie, author of “Transatlantic Anarchism during the Spanish Civil War and Revolution, 1936-1939: Fury over Spain”.