John Edwards
Faculty Fellow in Spanish at the University of Oxford
2 episodes
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Valladolid Debate
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential debate in 1550 over whether it was right or not to enslave the people who lived on Spain's newly conquered land in the Americas.
20 February 2020
Also featuring: Caroline Dodds Pennock, Julia McClure
The Spanish Inquisition
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish Inquisition, whose defense of medieval orthodoxy is a story of heresy, torture, courage, imprisonment, exile and death.
22 June 2006
Also featuring: Alexander Murray, Michael Alpert