For almost 30 years, Australian theater company Back to Back Theater has been exploring themes around disability and neurodivergence. For the first time their play "The shadow whose prey the hunter becomes" arrives in Madrid.

A play that revolves around disability, human rights, sexual policies and AI. It will run on the 9th and 10th of May in cultural center Condeduque. Director Bruce Gladwin joined us in this broadcast to tell us about the play.

For 22 years now, the festival Documenta Madrid has been bringing contemporary and experimental documentary from the whole world closer to Madrid's audiences. This year the focus is on archive, memory and new looks at social and political cinema. Luis Parés, art director at Cineteca Matadero, tells us more about what they have planned for this edition.

After that, we look into the not-so-bright side of the Spanish audiovisual industry. Director Almudena Carracedo tells us about the report "After silence. Impact of Sexual abuse and sexual violence against women in the cinema and audiovisual industry" which was released last month by the the Spanish Ascociation of Women Filmmakers and in Audiovisual Media, CIMA.

It's been an eventful couple of weeks. Last Monday, Spain suffered a Peninsula-wide blackout. The previous Monday, we got news of the passing of Pope Francis. This week the conclave to elect a new pope begins on Wednesday, with 133 cardenals, 80 of them appointed by the late Pope Francis... In today's broadcast, we'll hear from the director general of the Pablo VI Foundation, Jesús Avezuela about what we can expect from the next few days.

And after that... Spain's finest flamenco will be on tour in the US and Canada during the months of May and June with Authentic Flamenco, a Teatro Real project. We talk to the Teatro's General Director, Ignacio García Belenguer, and bailaora Ángeles Gabaldón.

On Monday, Spain went dark. Two days ago, at 12:33PM, the entirety of the Iberian Peninsula lost power completely. Mainland Spain, Portugal and part of France shut down from one moment to the next. Every home, business, traffic light, train, lost electricity. Hospitals worked with back-up generators, while traffic jams lasted for hours. We are Spanish National Radio's English broadcast, and we will be dedicating today's broadcast to explain how Spain went through the crisis and what the aftershocks are.

We also talk to Pablo Ledesma, Associate Professor of Electric Engineering of the Carlos III University of Madrid, about what might have caused the blackout, and whether it might happen again.

The International Girls in ICT Day is celebrated every year on the fourth Thursday in April. A day to encourage girls and young women to pursue technological degrees and raise awareness about the gender gap in ICT. In Spain, less than 20% of people who work in tech are women, and only 1.5% of girls want to pursue a career in STEM, according to the latest survey conducted by the National Obervatory of Technology and Society.

Ester Maestro, programs director at the "Cibervoluntarios" foundation, joined us in this broadcast to tell us about their project "Innovadoras TIC" (women innovators ITC).

After that, we speak with Conxi Perez, IT engineer and CEO of "Rolldbox Games" about her experience as a woman in tech.

To celebrate this year's World Book Day, we visited a unique bookstore located in the heart of Madrid. The Secret Kingdoms is the only bookstore in the city with a catalog exclusively in English. A hidden treasure in Madrid's literary quarter. Owner David Price opened its doors for us.

As consciousness about environmental issues grows, companies and institutions are becoming more aware of the necessity of developing sustainable and ethical business models. The fashion industry is one of the most environmentally unfriendly. Its impact is enormous in terms of water consumption and carbon emissions.

That's why more and more associations are raising their voices and coming up with initiatives to raise awareness about the importance of sustainability in fashion. One of these projects is the Circular Sustainable Fashion Week Madrid, which will be celebrating its 9th edition from the 21st to the 26th of April. Paloma López, director of the project, joined us to tell us about it.

After that we learn about "torrijas", a traditional Spanish Holy Week dessert, with Roberto Hernandez, chef at Latasia and winner of this year's "Madrid's Best Traditional Torrija contest".

"In a certain village in La Mancha, which I do not wish to name" is probably one of the most well-known openings in literature. And more than 400 years after its publication, Miguel de Cervantes's "Don Quijote de la Mancha" continues inspiring literary works.

This is the case of American writer Roy Lotz, who took inspiration from the Cervantine classic to write a satiric novel about American Society. He joined us here to tell us about "Don Bigote".