Saturday Night Live - Vicky Christina Barcelona parody

Monty Python - Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! (or the Spanish revolution...)

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
In the early years of the 16th century, to combat the rising tide of religious unorthodoxy, the Pope gave Cardinal Ximinez of Spain leave to move without let or hindrance throughout the land, in a reign of violence, terror and torture that makes a smashing film. This was the Spanish Inquisition...

Ximinez: Now, old woman -- you are accused of heresy on three counts -- heresy by thought, heresy by word, heresy by deed, and heresy by action -- *four* counts. Do you confess?
Wilde: I don't understand what I'm accused of.
Ximinez: Ha! Then we'll make you understand! Biggles! Fetch...THE CUSHIONS!

Biggles: Here they are, lord.
Ximinez: Now, old lady -- you have one last chance. Confess the heinous sin of heresy, reject the works of the ungodly -- *two* last chances. And you shall be free -- *three* last chances. You have three last chances, the nature of which I have divulged in my previous utterance.
Wilde: I don't know what you're talking about.
Ximinez: Right! If that's the way you want it -- Cardinal! Poke her with the soft cushions!

Ximinez: Confess! Confess! Confess!
Biggles: It doesn't seem to be hurting her, lord.
Ximinez: Have you got all the stuffing up one end?
Biggles: Yes, lord.
Ximinez Hm! She is made of harder stuff! Cardinal Fang! Fetch...THE COMFY CHAIR!

Fang: The...Comfy Chair?

Ximinez: So you think you are strong because you can survive the soft cushions. Well, we shall see. Biggles! Put her in the Comfy Chair!

Ximinez: Now -- you will stay in the Comfy Chair until lunch time, with only a cup of coffee at eleven. Is that really all it is?
Biggles: Yes, lord.
Ximinez: I see. I suppose we make it worse by shouting a lot, do we? Confess, woman. Confess! Confess! Confess! Confess
Biggles: I confess!
Ximinez: Not you!

Spain wants true democracy

In the garlic

Buenafuente interviews Theresa O'Shea and Valerie Collins, two English women living in Spain and authors of In the Garlic, an informative, fun guide to Spain.

Thanks, Nuria. You really are in the garlic!

Bulls Escape Tom Cruise Film Set in Spain

Bulls broke free from a film set in the southern Spanish town of Cadiz Sunday. "Knight&Day" stars Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz hadn't arrived in town yet. Two women were slightly hurt, and filming has been suspended.

Little Britain in Spain

Little England in Spain

Spain is a hot spot for northern Europeans, but local anger is growing. Where in the world is there an immigrant community who dominate the local economy, who dictate what gets developed and who local politicians fall over themselves to woo? Welcome to San Fulgencio, a town of 11,000 in the Spanish province of Alicante. With a 75 per cent foreign population made up of Britons, Germans and other Europeans, this traditionally homogeneous city has become a sort of open-door laboratory on immigration. Thousands of northern Europeans, tired of the damp and cold, are moving south to start new lives in sunny Spain. It is something of an irony that, once there, many try to re-create the lives they were so desperate to leave back home.

BBC Radio 4's Crossing continents: Spain

The BBC's Madrid correspondent, Steve Kingstone, examines the growing antagonism between Spain's Socialist government and the Roman Catholic Church.

You can hear Steve Kingstone's report about Spain on BBC iplayer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00fq3qz


You can also read his article Moral battle over Spanish schools on the BBC website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/7762702.stm




Thanks for the link, Almudena.

Spanish stereotypes

SUPPORT SPAIN (from Sky Sports)

The script and notes for this video have been taken from MULTIMEDIA ENGLISH CLASSROOM. Thanks, Angel C.