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.

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.

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.

Andreu Buenafuente (Reus, 1965) is experiencing a sweet moment personally –with his partner, Sílvia Abril, and a 12-year-old daughter, Joana– and also professionally, with the Nobody knows anything on the radio with Berto Romero, and with Imperfect future, his weekly show on Spanish Television. He just turned 60 and is already thirty years into a media career that has made him one of the most popular, influential, and beloved figures in Catalonia, something he especially appreciated when he returned to live in Barcelona in 2022, after six years in Madrid.

The conversation with actress Diana Gómez Raich begins in Igualada, where she was born in 1989, continues in Capellades, where she was already doing theater at the age of five, and goes through Barcelona, Madrid, London, Sabadell –where she lives with journalist Roger Escapa and her three-year-old son– and ends in Miami, the city they are going to this summer to see one of Leo Messi's last dances on a soccer field. Discreet and magnetic, Diana Gómez only seems to lose her temper when Barça is playing. You can find her on Netflix (Valeria and The Money Heist) and soon on 3Cat, in the second season of the series Vintage.

The voice and linguistic wit of Màrius Serra (Barcelona, 1963) are part of the Catalan cultural landscape. 18 years of Enigmàrius On Catalunya Ràdio, 35 years of crossword puzzles The Vanguard, five thousand articles and thirty books are some of his calling cards. Now he has just published an updated reissue of Verbàlia, the country where Màrius discovered the pleasure of playing with words. The first time this book was published, in 2000, his son Lluís had just been born, whose severe encephalopathy prevented him from speaking or walking for nine years.

Miqui Puig (l'Ametlla del Vallès, 1968) was the leader of Los Sencillos, a band that was successful in the 90s, especially with It's beautiful, a song that is still danced to this day. But what happens when this is over, you keep making songs and the bulk of your audience has evaporated? Miqui Puig, DJ and producer of Whip track, a daily program on the radio station iCat, has written a profound book about fame, music, love, and a whole catalog of fears and addictions that have accompanied him. It is titled—I would say misleadingly— I didn't want to be Miqui Puig.

The writer Najat El Hachmi was born in Morocco (Beni Sidel, 1979) and arrived in Vic when she was just eight years old. You can imagine her adolescence when you read the novel. The secrets of the Nur, in which a twelve-year-old girl who wants to be a writer discovers the racist and classist world and her Muslim and sexist family. Najat El Hachmi has become a renowned writer, with awards such as the Ramon Llull, the Nadal, and the Ciutat de Barcelona, and she fights for equality and freedoms to triumph, both in the country that welcomed her and in her home community.

Lawyer Toni Freixa (Barcelona, 1968) is one of those figures who has been part of the Barça entourage for almost a quarter of a century. He held legal responsibilities during Joan Laporta's first term, was a director and board spokesperson for Sandro Rosell, and, when the latter resigned, continued with Josep Maria Bartomeu. He has closely known the last three presidents and has run in the last two Barça elections. In 2015, he didn't even get 2,000 votes, and in 2021, he had fewer than 5,000.

There was a time when the most widely read and feared television critic in Catalonia was Ferran Monegal (Barcelona, 1947). He could attack you from the press (32 years in The Newspaper), from the radio (17 years of collaborations with Júlia Otero) or from television (10 years on Betevé). Now he hasn't given his opinion anywhere for a year, but he hasn't said his last word as a journalist yet: he's looking for a platform where he can make the program that TV3 hasn't bought, he has a movie script in his head and, "alert", continues doing kick-boxing, at 78 years old, he's a karate black belt. Here's Ferran Monegal.

Núria Moliner (Barcelona, 1991) is an architect who has never built a house. She gave it up to dedicate herself to creating television programs, creating songs and singing them with her group Intana, and writing a book based on her experience sleeping in other people's houses (God cases God nights). One of the pleasant surprises of the 3Cat menu, these last few weeks, is Between four walls, a space in which Núria Moliner enters with empathy and delicacy into homes as diverse as those of Bojan Krkic and Peyu, the squatted apartment of actress Patrícia Bargalló, and the home of Ana Viladomiu, the only resident of La Pedrera.

Òscar Andreu Fernández (Terrassa, 1975) said when he was young that in 2000 he would be 25 years old and it seemed impossible to him that in 2025 he would be 50. Well, this moment has arrived and Òscar has a partner, two children (one five years old and the other one and a half years old), two stable and successful jobs (The competition, in Rac1, and It is passing, on TV3) and a monologue (Flashy colored ocells), which is the linguistic autobiography of a boy who until the age of 18 only spoke Catalan with his mother, who at 40 becomes aware of the unjust situation the language is experiencing in Catalonia and now denounces it on stage or in this very conversation.

Justo Molinero (Villanueva de Córdoba, 1949) has stepped aside. He's the owner of Radio Tele Taxi. He still goes to the station, recording commercials or seeing clients, but he no longer does a radio show every morning. His group of stations, with thousands of loyal listeners and advertisers, has historically been a very attractive channel for the politicians who have governed Catalonia and wanted to reach the new Catalans arriving from all over Spain. Justo Molinero's merits have been recognized with the Creu de Sant Jordi, the Ondas Award, and being named Mataró's Adopted Father. At 75, he's toned down his tone and revved up his performances.

Arnau Tordera (Tona, 1986), composer, guitarist and singer, is the leader of the group Obeses, he has created the musical Sardana Superstar and the opera The lost cat. Maybe you discovered it in a Marathon from TV3 singing Show must go on; in it FAQS, interpreting The Reapers at the top of Sant Jeroni, with just an electric guitar; or in one of his sections with Jordi Basté on RAC1. He has a degree in philosophy and has studied at the ESMUC (Spanish Academy of Music), the Taller de Músics (Music Workshop), and the Conservatori de Vic (Vic Conservatory). He has the talent, the discourse, and the aesthetics to go against the grain. His manner sometimes reminds me of Albert Serra's.

Peio Sánchez (San Sebastián, 1959) is the parish priest of the Santa Anna parish in Barcelona, a church next to Plaza Catalunya and La Rambla that since 2017 has offered food, drinks, medical care, and opportunities to the last arrivals in the city: those without jobs, shelter, or papers. Last year, they treated 3,800 people, following the concept of a field hospital preached by Pope Francis: caring for the wounded, regardless of who they are or where they come from. Half Catalan and half Basque, Peio Sánchez is a cultured and committed priest, an example, in the midst of Holy Week, of what the Church is also about.

Isona Passola i Vidal (Barcelona, 1953) has just been re-elected to preside over the Ateneu Barcelonès for another four years. Former president of the Catalan Film Academy, her greatest success as a producer was the film Black bread, with thirteen Gaudí Awards, nine Goyas, and an Oscar nomination. Involved in multiple cultural projects, I'm trying to take this conversation with Isona Passola into more personal territory. Her father, the Catalan businessman Ermengol Passola; her husband, Jordi Teixidor, who died in 2016; her son, Joan, who manages the Texas cinemas; and her name, which is now a brand: Isona.

Toni Soler i Guasch (Figueres, 1965) began writing the script for Parenostre, the film about the Pujol case, in the spring of 2020, in the midst of the pandemic. Five years later, he eagerly awaits its premiere, April 16. Directed by Manuel Huerga and starring Josep Maria Pou (Jordi Pujol), Carme Sansa (Marta Ferrusola), and Pere Arquillué (Jordi Pujol Ferrusola), Parenostre It's a fiction based on real, recent, and sensitive events: how the Pujol family copes with their descent into hell when it's revealed they have money in Andorra. A brave exercise that will dominate Catalan political conversation in the coming weeks.

Ada Parellada (Granollers, 1967) comes from a family that has been serving food for seven generations and more than 250 years. She learned the trade of cook and restaurateur at Fonda Europa in Granollers, the Parellada family's main house, "the university of hospitality," in her words. Since 1993, she has had her own restaurant in Barcelona, Semproniana, where every March 8th she brings together some of the most prominent Catalan women for the Festa del Davantal. In this interview, Ada Parellada explains why her restaurant doesn't have avocados and why sushi is a traditional dish for Catalan children.

Núria Marín (Viella, 1981) read as a young womanHello and the Frames because she wanted to be a Hollywood actress. This hasn't happened (yet), but her journalism career has been anything but boring. She worked for four years in Superpop, a magazine that influenced several generations of teenagers. Then came fifteen years at Mediaset, presenting and collaborating on many programs such as Butterfly net and Save me. And two years ago 3Cat rediscovered it and started working in Catalan (It is passing, Love cost and Do you have a minute?). Now she's looking for an apartment in Barcelona and time to feed her TikTok.