To Charlie Pee, one of the most prominent comedians of her generation, known for her live shows and for her collaboration with the program La resistencia, she likes to make people laugh, but what she likes most is to make herself laugh. This, she says, helps her better digest difficult experiences. We talk to her about the connection between laughter and happiness and how people who make us laugh from a stage also seek this joy through the laughter of others.

Carme Forcadell i Lluís (Xerta, 1955) presided over the Assemblea Nacional Catalana, from 2012 to 2015, and the Parliament of Catalonia, from 2015 to 2018. Interviewing, after years, someone who has held relevant positions in such a tumultuous period for the country allows for a review, with greater freedom and perspective, of collective adventures and personal experiences, such as the 39 months she spent in prison. Forcadell does not forgive those who underestimated her nor those who imprisoned her, she does not travel to Spain and does not rule out, if the circumstances of unity and determination arise, returning to the front line one day.

Arnau Pericàs (2005), Martí Salvia (2005) and Luana Rocha (2005), are three third-year audiovisual communication students at Pompeu Fabra University who are currently succeeding with their video podcast Guarres!, a program in which they weekly talk about sex frankly, without filters and without fear, in a bold and provocative way..Last year they took the radio class, in which they had to present an audio pilot, and they decided to talk about sex in a theatrical way, with characters from their own fantasy universe. That episode was very different from what we can find on their platforms now, and it received a grade of six out of ten. All three were left with a great desire to apply the professor's corrections, which is why last summer they decided to resume the project voluntarily and extracurricularly. Despite changing the program's structure, they kept the characters of Gina Bashina, Luz Phallus, and Consol Adó.

Actor Barry Keoghan, known for films like Saltburn or the more recent Peaky Blinders: The King, has denounced the harassment he has suffered on social media, which has focused mainly on criticizing his physical appearance. In an interview with the American magazine Entertainment Weekly, he detailed that this hate campaign has altered his life and his way of behaving."It has made me withdraw into myself, not want to go anywhere, not want to go out," he says.

Sepp Kuss's (1994) life changed radically on September 1, 2019. He had arrived in Europe from the United States a couple of years earlier and was already making a name for himself in cycling. That day he rode his best race. It was the ninth stage of the Vuelta a España, and the finish line was in Els Cortals de Encamp, Andorra, where he lived. Waiting for him at the finish line was someone who would forever change his life: Noemí Ferré, the love of his life. She had gone to watch the stage finish with some friends, as she is also a cyclist and passionate about the sport. He, on the other hand, was gritting his teeth to reach the end. After the race, Noemí met Sepp because they had a mutual friend. That was the first and penultimate step, because after the Vuelta ended, the American wrote to her to arrange a meeting. Since then, they've been inseparable, and Kuss has become a true Catalan, even swapping his native Colorado for the Pyrenees forests, where he hopes to rack up successes in the Volta a Catalunya, which is about to begin.

Enrique Tomás Ruiz (Badalona, ​​1966) has the gift of gab of a neighborhood shopkeeper and the eloquence of a successful entrepreneur accustomed to giving talks explaining his business model and philosophy of life. Four figures to understand the phenomenon: he sells 3,000 hams every day and has 179 points of sale in 11 different countries. His company, which last year had a turnover of more than 300 million euros, employs 1,700 people. He has just separated from his wife, bought a second private plane, and is planning a big party for his 60th birthday. Oh, and he warns that he is determined to live to 100.

Lluís Llach was 27 years old when he starred in the first major political event in Catalonia after Franco's death: his legendary concerts on January 15, 16, and 17, 1976, at the Palau d'Esports in Barcelona. Half a century later, Llach—now 77—is the second guest in this interview series. 2 x 100Two people talking and 100 readers and subscribers of ARA in the audience. In this conversation, Lluís Llach compares the concerts of January 1976 with October 1, 2017, explains why he got angry with Serrat, and admits that perhaps he himself has already become like Grandpa Siset.

It was impossible for Juan Carlos Unzué to attend the ARA celebration where he was symbolically presented with the sixth Carles Capdevila award for his work in raising awareness of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the dreaded ALS, a disease that the former player has suffered from for over five years. Although he sent an emotional and assertive message of gratitude, We were finally able to present him with the award in person during an interview in which he reflects on his fight to improve care for people with illnesses like his, as well as his sporting life and, above all, his perspective on life and the values he uses to cope. Unzué, whose illness has already forced him to give up his work as a sports commentator, has used his fame to help bring the issue of care and the enormous cost of this debilitating illness to the forefront of the political agenda, which has contributed to the approval of [the relevant legislation]. a law that specifically guarantees financial support for the most serious cases, It streamlines procedures and ensures better training for healthcare personnel. He welcomed us a few days before Christmas to his apartment on the outskirts of Barcelona. He was accompanied at all times by his wife, with whom he has shared his life since they were very young, and by a family that is about to grow with a grandchild. In Unzué's home there are many difficulties, but also great humor and a lot of generosity. The former goalkeeper excitedly described the car trip to Pamplona to spend the Christmas holidays with his large family, headed by his mother, Camino. Unzué made it very easy for us: he is exactly as he was. Precise, generous, a fighter. And he has a common sense that leaves you speechless with useless words.

The door to the room at the Bowery Hotel in New York, where our interview will take place, is only a crack open, wedged shut by the glaring omen. While we wait our turn, a cacophony of laughter and the flashes of the camera escape through the tiny hole. Los Angeles Times who has kidnapped Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman for a photo shoot. When the door finally opens, the couple, still laughing, come to meet us, genuinely curious about our arrival and eager to learn all the details.

Claudia Soriano (Esplugues, 1997) has always been passionate about space and planets and has ended up dedicating herself to studying one of the most distant: exoplanets. She is currently doing her postdoctoral research from Southampton, in the United Kingdom, although she is clear that she wants to return to Catalonia to continue researching and bring these distant galaxies closer to our world.

Mònica Planas (Barcelona, ​​1975) is the first guest in the 2 x 100 interview series, which we are launching in ARA. A conversation, two people talking, and an audience of one hundred readers and subscribers of the newspaper. The setting will always be the same: the rehearsal room of the Orfeó Català, in the Palau de la Música Catalana. Planas is a journalist and has worked in The morning of Catalunya Ràdio, in itThis year, 100 from TV3, in Domestic problems and sub-directed The world on RAC1with Xavier Bosch. In 2007 he began writing television criticism in Sports World And since 2010, her thoughtful, precise, and incisive articles have consistently been among the most read and discussed pieces in ARA.

The film has just premiered My friend Eva, by Cesc Gay, where she is the absolute star. We'll soon see it on Amazon Prime in a blockbuster titled ZetaHe filmed a series in the Pyrenees with the Cabezudo brothers. Kill a bearNora Navas is already an established actress, a woman who has always enjoyed taking risks, who has a keen eye for good projects, who champions new ideas, but who has often said no. She has done little theater this decade, but in the last one she became an indispensable actress for many directors, such as Oriol Broggi and Carlota Subirós. She would like to become a Lorca-inspired actress, and the time has come for her to bring her projects to fruition. She has fond memories of her time in Buenos Aires and was able to turn down a life in Hollywood, in Los Angeles, where she could have settled after... Black bread

This Wednesday, Juan Carlos I broke his silence in an interview on the program Secrets of history From France 3. Twenty-five minutes that pretended to be a unique opportunity but, in reality, didn't even come close to addressing the important topics the character should have been discussing. A sham conversation. They titled it The confidences of a king fallen from graceBut no confidences were shared. And even less about misfortunes. Everything was carefully orchestrated, but, to maintain tradition, it's a farce tailor-made for the monarch.

"Barcelona is the twelfth most hot “Of the planet.” This was the headline that journalist Adaia Teruel (Barcelona, ​​1978) read one night in 2022 while lying in bed, looking at her phone. This statement prompted her to begin fieldwork in the Catalan capital, visiting swingers' clubs, fetish gatherings, sex worker demonstrations, and other experiences of people who live sex very differently from the majority. This research is compiled in the book Sex in my city (KO Books), a collection of chronicles and testimonies about a Barcelona often unknown to many of its own residents.

We know Unai Canela thanks, above all, to Unai's journey, one of the most successful documentaries of Non-fiction, which was directed by his father, the prestigious photographer of National Geographic Andoni Canela. It's a film that has become a generational touchstone, narrated by Unai when he was nine years old, and which he, along with his parents and sister, traveled around the world following Andoni's work. Unai has grown up, and we've watched him grow up through cinema, as the protagonist of this celebrated film. Boyhood, by Richard Linklater. He has become a film and documentary director. He made a documentary during the pandemic –Between mountains– a feline of the world also with his father and has recently presented his own film, Sun in GreenlandBefore summer, he was in the Amazon working as a cameraman for a documentary about birds. At twenty, he has become a promising audiovisual professional. A young prodigy. It seems both distant and yet close. Unai's journey.

Juan Carlos I will publish his memoirs in France on November 5. This Wednesday, a week earlier, the former king made it clear that his objective is none other than to rehabilitate his image after five years of exile in Abu Dhabi. weekly Le Point He has released some excerpts from the book, in which the former monarch defends democracy as his "legacy" in Spain, and in an interview in Le Figaro He himself states that this was Franco's objective when he granted him accession to the throne: "Why lie if it was he who made me king and, in reality, did so to create a more open regime?" Coinciding with this promotion, Juan Carlos I lands in Spain this Wednesday.

Maya Rudolph is a heavyweight in American comedy and is currently deploying her resources in the series Loot, whose third season just premiered on Apple TV+, where she plays a middle-aged woman who, following a divorce, finds herself with more money than she can handle. We spoke with her about this project and also about the impact of the current political climate in the United States on comedians, especially those who are openly hostile to Trump.

Víctor Rodríguez is part of the first class of the Vall d'en Bas bell-ringing school, a unique initiative that began in 2023 and aims to help preserve and recover the heritage linked to bells, as bell-ringers have been disappearing, and with them, the knowledge of the language and traditional ringing techniques. Rodríguez, despite being young (he is 38 years old), displays a passion and knowledge of this world that doesn't seem typical of his generation, but he assures that interest in bells is not a matter of older people. "At the bell-ringing school, we were a very diverse group, people from all over the country, of different ages, but we had in common our passion and desire to learn," he explains. All the knowledge he has acquired throughout the bell-ringing course is now being applied to his town, La Garriga, where he has cleaned and revitalized the bell tower and enjoys popular support.

The enormous difficulties in finding programs on mainstream television that both entertain us and educate us about the world have turned platforms into a consolation for discovering alternatives that nourish our souls. One of the most exceptional offerings is David Frost vs., on Movistar+, a compilation of the British journalist's greatest interviews. Frost is best known internationally for his 1977 interviews with Richard Nixon, in which he persuaded the US President to acknowledge his involvement in the Watergate scandal. Frost interviewed key political leaders of the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as key cultural and social figures in contemporary history. He established a television style, raised journalistic standards, and became a highly influential figure internationally, sensitive to global conflicts and challenges.

On Monday night, La 1 started the season with the interview with Pedro Sánchez after the Newscast 2. The broadcast also marked the return of journalist Pepa Bueno to public television to host the newscast. Her debut was splendid.