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4: Madrid: 'Put Money in thy Purse '
In the fourth of six talks about his journey through Spain and Portugal this summer, novelist Joseph Hone comes to Madrid in high summer, a ferociously burnt race-track of a city, largely given over to Mammon. The centre still holds in Spain today; while the old kingdoms imagine their freedoms, only the leafy Retiro gardens and a sea-haunted cellar bar seem real ... Producer JOY HATWOOD

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