In today's program, my colleague Frank Smith recalls the curious parallels and intersections between his own career and that of fellow Briton Tristan Garel-Jones:
In Madrid and in London, at the BBC and in Westminister, their first contact was in 1970 at La casa inglesa, the English House, a language school in Madrid. Their work, in politics and journalism took them through the Thatcher years and the Maastricht Treaty, which divided Britain's conservative party in the prelude to Brexit, but Spain, for both men, remained a lifetime reference and finally their chosen homes. Tristan Garel-Jones came to work as the "Taurine Correspondent" for The Spectator, edited at the time by Boris Johnson. Frank Smith joined Radio Nacional de España, where once again he was able to speak with the man who had once been his rather stingy employer at La casa inglesa.
