English language broadcast - 31/05/11

After the news, today's broadcast features In And Around Spain, with the focus on the Spanish rockabilly of Vinila von Bismark and The Lucky Dados. Then Alison Hughes answers listeners' letters in Listeners' Club , after which comes North by Southwest , in which Nicolas Jackson focuses on first-time British author Annabel Pitcher, whose novel My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece has been well received by both critics and the reading public and has just been published in Spanish translation.