The daughter, who will be voting for the first time in the upcoming elections, was watching on Instagram fragments of Broncano's interview with the leader of Vox on Televisión Española. She had leaned her phone against the oil cruet, on the kitchen counter, and, meanwhile, was preparing her lunch (a lunch easy to open and boil). A youtuber was commenting, in list form, on the relevant moments of the interview (which she wouldn't watch in its entirety) and asking for “comments”. The mother, who was also preparing lunch (vegetables), asked her what had happened in that interview. The daughter told her: “They threw a lot of hate at him, he really sucked up to him”.

In October 2019, during a conversation with Gerard Piqué on La resistencia, the footballer asked David Broncano: "Would you bring Abascal on your show?" "No, I wouldn't," the presenter replied, following the controversy over Pablo Motos' interview with Abascal on El hormiguero a few days earlier. Seven years later, the Vox candidate for the general election appeared this Monday on La revuelta. And he has become the star of the most-watched interview in the show's history, with an average audience of 4,815,000 viewers and a 33.6% audience share.

Marisol Galdón (Sabadell, 1962) is one of the pioneering voices of Catalunya Ràdio, one of the first women to work as a DJ on the nights of the Catalonia of the 80s, an icon of television in the 90s and 2000s, a cultured, passionate and vehement person, who has always gone her own way and who was sought after by the best programs of all the networks. But all that changed one day. In 2021 she posted a video explaining her precarious economic situation and asking for work. This conversation comes five years later, now that she has returned to live in Catalonia.

A medicine graduate from the UdL with master's degrees in bioethics and public health, Oriol Yuguero (Lleida, 1984) has always been precocious. Not only because in 2021 he was awarded the ICS Young Researcher Prize, but because he founded the first Medical Students' Council in 2005, was a councillor at the Paeria in his early twenties, a general practitioner at 29, and at just 40 he became the director of Emergencies for the entire province, from where he drove the transformation of the service. Last summer, he was appointed manager of the two public hospitals in the city of Lleida after winning the first public call for applications held for this position.

Joan Lluís Bozzo (Barcelona, 1953) is one of the great names of Catalan theater. He has dedicated more than half his life to leading the company Dagoll Dagom with creations such as Antaviana, Nit de Sant Joan, Mikado, Flor de nit and the legendary Mar i cel. But this conversation will go down other paths: his surname, his voice, his great friend Pepe Rubianes, military service in Ceuta during the death of Franco, his conversion to the independence movement, his political foray into Junts pel Sí, his active retirement and his first 100 days of abstinent life. Bozzo has stopped drinking alcohol.

On his WhatsApp, he has a photomontage of the landscapes of Cappadocia, in Turkey, where the caves that served as a refuge for the first Christians are located. Gabriel Ventura (Granollers, 1988) is a poet, and although he has never had a mystical experience, or precisely because of that, he is drawn to the kind of practices that help to escape the weight of reality. This flirting with the beyond has led him to write books, curate exhibitions, and conduct a study on mysticism for Lux, Rosalía's album.The clothes, the hair, the performances, the rituals… what are we supposed to do, those of us who are too normal, when we are intimidated by an eccentric poet?

Laura Freixas has just published Mi madre en el espejo (Tres Hermanas, 2026), a family and personal portrait. In the intimate sphere, her love for culture and a rebellion that does not accept passivity were forged: one becomes a feminist when she sees injustice and wants to change it. Her firm positions in the movement have brought her headaches, and we talk about this in this talk to get to know the writer and her yearnings.The book begins with a quote by Annie Ernaux that says: "To relive it all but without the pain, that only exists in writing". I do not believe you have taken this journey without pain, despite the writing.

The first time I spoke to Carlota Planas on the phone, I thought I heard a baby crying in the background. I didn't say anything. Ten minutes later, however, I couldn't help but ask her if it was a baby I was hearing. She quickly said yes, laughed, and we continued talking about football. Six months later, sitting in front of me, she explained that she renewed Claudia Pina's contract when she was eight months pregnant. Cata Coll's, a month before.

Luís Filipe Costa Póvoas (Porto, 1996) had always imagined that he would end up having an academic career. He liked science and for years he saw himself one day directing his own laboratory or being a university professor. His doctorate, however, has changed his plans. Not because he has stopped loving research, but because he now has other priorities: "Having a flat, having a family, a stable life." And he is not sure that all this is compatible with a scientific career.

Carles Ramió (Girona, 1963) is a professor of political science and administration at Pompeu Fabra University, and as of this week formally chairs the commission of experts launched by the Government for the transformation of public administration (CETRA).

When Joel Vilarrasa (Sant Joan les Fonts, 1997) finished high school, he did the same as many other young people of his generation: study at university. For years he had felt that this was the natural path for any student who achieved good academic results, while vocational training courses were often relegated to a second option. He studied industrial engineering at the University of Girona and, once graduated, joined an engineering office in Olot. But the routine of an office job didn't quite convince him. "It was a very good work environment, but I missed a more physical, more manual and more varied job," he explains. The decision to leave and join the family carpentry business was his. "My father had always told me to study. Then I would decide what I wanted to do."

His own experience has led Hatim Azahri Akhnous, 28, to dedicate his life to transforming the reality of the most vulnerable people. A higher technician in social integration and a student of social work at the UB, in 2019 he founded the association Joves Units del Poble-Sec with the aim of generating real opportunities for young people in the neighborhood at risk of exclusion. Since last year he has been a trustee of Equitat.org (formerly Fundació Bofill) and this year he has been awarded the Princess of Girona Prize in the Social category and has participated in the VI meeting of Lafede Changing education to change the world.

What you will read here, more than an interview, is a gastronomic manifesto that the cook Ada Parellada (Granollers, 1967) let go of on Wednesday, in a disordered, fun, and captivating way, at the ARA summer party, in front of 200 newspaper subscribers. Born into the family of the mythical Fonda Europa in Granollers, owner of the Semproniana restaurant in Barcelona, author of a dozen books, and disseminator of traditional Catalan cuisine on Instagram, Ada Parellada will collaborate again with ARA after the summer by publishing two weekly recipes on video.What does returning to the PRESENT mean to you?

These are probably the most anticipated explanations in recent times. Both by public opinion, as well as by the PP and Vox opposition, and also by the Spanish government, which maintains its confidence in former Spanish president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Two months after being indicted, the former PSOE leader broke his silence this Thursday in the first interview he has granted since being investigated by the National Court. And right from the start, he was clear: he maintains that he is innocent, that he has not "corrupted" himself, and that the jewels were a "courtesy gift," the origin of which he will explain to Judge José Luis Calama. In other words, Zapatero has reaffirmed that he did not exert any kind of influence over the government presided over by Pedro Sánchez for them to rescue the Plus Ultra airline during the pandemic and, in parallel, has defended that he has had no profit motive in possessing jewels valued at 1.3 million euros. Even, at one point in the interview, he went so far as to say that they were simply "there," in the safe, mixed with the family's inherited jewels.

Jennifer Lopez is one of the most recognizable figures in the entertainment industry, with a career that has combined music and film. This sustained demand is what led her, as she explained in an interview on the podcast SmartLess, to a physical collapse during the early stages of her career, when she was chaining projects without rest.

When the writer Daniel Vázquez Sallés (Barcelona, 1966) was 37 years old, his father, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, died at a Bangkok airport. At 55, his 10-year-old son, Marc, died. He now tries to honor the memory of both with the life he leads – far from past addictions – and with the books he writes: the latest, Los felices ochenta (Folch i Folch), in which he paints a caustic, uncomfortable, and funny portrait of a decade marked by great leaders (Pujol, Felipe, John Paul II, Reagan, Thatcher, Samaranch, or Núñez), but also by AIDS and drugs.

Judit Martín i Dolcet (l’Hospitalet de Llobregat, 1976) is a machine for making people laugh. Between subtlety and delirium, she displays unpredictable humor to imitate, improvise, and build worlds and characters. She has demonstrated this in theater, on radio, on television, and also in hospitals as a clown for Pallapupas. About to turn 50, one of the best Catalan comedic actresses is premiering her first film in a few days: the romantic comedy Pizza movies, directed by Carlo Padial and starring Judit and Berto Romero, a couple who love each other and are lovable.

Arantxa Marenyà studied translation and interpretation and worked as an English teacher in secondary school, but years ago she trained in nonviolent communication, a discipline that proposes an empathic approach to managing conflicts and improving relationships. Now she dedicates herself to training on this method, which is based on speaking from needs and not from criticism and which, she says, could make the world a kinder place.

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 years later someone who has held relevant positions during such a turbulent period in the country allows for a more free and perspective review of collective adventures and personal experiences, such as the 39 months she spent in prison. Forcadell does not forgive those who belittled her or those who imprisoned her, she does not travel to Spain, and she does not rule out, if the circumstances of unity and determination arise, returning to the front line one day.