Since the 70s, Catalonia, one of Spain's historic nations, has revitalised its language, culture, economy and political identity. How has this renaissance been brought about? Frank Smith analyses the secret of Catalonia's success as well as its implications for Spanish unity, in conversation with leading political and cultural figures in Barcelona and Madrid, including Jordi Sole Tura , Minister of Culture; Pascual Maragall , the Mayor of Barcelona; Jordi Pujol , President of the Generalitat; the historian Professor Juan Pablo Fusi ; Professor
Josep Maria Valles , Rector of Barcelona University; the writer
Eduardo Mendoza ; Eduardo Punset ; and Professor Geoffrey Walker , Lecturer in Spanish at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Producer Judith Bumpus