The restaurant and cocktail bar Jok, hidden on a mezzanine in Barcelona's Eixample, with its modernist decor and rosé velvet sofas, seems like the perfect setting for the cutest Victorian podcast out there. I'm going to see the "Punkis Decimonòniques" precisely on the day they disband: this will be their last show after five years of delving into the best novels by Victorian female writers, most of which have recently been published in Catalan by Viena, in collections such as Club Victòria and Petits Plaers. Indeed, their editor, Blanca Pujals, along with the then bookseller of La Carbonera, Carlota Freixenet, are the "Victorian ladies of the 21st century".

"You're such a feminist, how can you love the Brontë sisters or Jane Austen so much?" Editor Blanca Pujals has answered this question dozens of times: "Precisely because I'm a feminist, I like them. What seems normal to us now is largely thanks to the demands they made in the 19th century." One way to expand on this answer is to listen to the podcast Nineteenth-century punks The book that the publisher created with bookseller Carlota Freixenet will soon be five years old. Pujals was fed up with not finding content in Catalan that talked about these authors and thought that, instead of complaining, she would put a stop to it. She explained this in a discussion organized by writer and journalist Pep Antoni Roig at La Semana del Llibre en Català. She titled it Podcasts and days: Catalan literature on Spotify.