Madrid - Put Money In thy Purse.
In the fourth of six talks about his journey through Spain and Portugal last year, 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