Podcast
Based on a cycle of debates recorded at the Portugal National Library, Expresso features a special five episodes podcast that leads him to the discovery of literary works that paved the way to the revolutionary process. Listen here the trailer, the first episode is published on April 1
From the 1960s onwards, Portugal met the great dilemmas that will announce the political change that lead on April 25, 1974: an accelerated process of economic growth and social change; the development of late colonialism and colonial wars; And finally, the dictator’s twilight and its replacement by Marcelo Caetano.
In these years that precede the revolution, “political options” that mark the process of transition to democracy are consolidated.
But what are the books that made April 25? How to interpret them and evaluate their relevance in the revolutionary process?
Listen here to the debate cycle ‘the intellectual origins of the Portuguese Revolution – the causes of books’, organized by and produced by the fiftieth anniversary of 25 April.
The first episode is released on April 1.
Dedicated to the “political options”, in this first episode of podcast we will hear about some striking works of the final phase of the dictatorship, expressing the political and ideological diversity that marked late authoritarianism:
– Álvaro Cunhal, towards victory: Party tasks in the Democratic and National Revolution (1964);
– Father Happiness Alves, Catholics and the politics of Humberto Delgado to Marcello Caetano (1969);
– Mário Soares, Portugal gagged [Le Portugal baillonné: un témoignage] (1972);
-Fernando Pacheco do Amorim, at the time of truth: colonialism and neo-colonialism in the proposed constitutional revision law (1971);
– António Alçada Batista, conversations with Marcello Caetano (1973); and
– António de Spinola, Portugal and the Future (1974).
In moderation by António Costa Pinto, was attended by António Araújo, Henrique Monteiro, Jaime Nogueira Pinto, José Neves, Rita Carvalho, Tiago Fernandes.
