In Spanish.
One of Spain's foremost women writers, Ana Maria Matute has displayed a recurring fascination with the Spanish Civil War and the defenselessness of children and the poor. Framed within the context of an appearance by Matute at the Real Academia Espanola de la Lengua, this program travels to Barcelona and locales in Spain's Rioja region.

In Spanish with English narration and subtitles
Features an interview with Matute and readings from her works, as well as the insights of writer and journalist Inmaculada de la Fuente, the University of Madrid's Alicia Redondo Goycoechea, and Fernando Valls, of the Universidad Autonoma of Barcelona, in an exploration of the narrative virtuosity of one of Spain's most honored and beloved writers.

In Spanish with English narration and subtitles
Carmen Martin Gaite: Award-Wining Novelist (2 hours 38 minutes) -- Excerpts from the Novel "Entre Visillos" by Carmen Martin Gaite; Relationships Between Men and Women in Spanish Post-War Novels; Spanish Novelist Ana Maria Matute Ausejo