After inconclusive elections last month, today Spain's parliament reconvenes to try to form a government. But as Spanish politicians look to the future, questions from the recent past continue to haunt them. When it comes to the country's bloody civil war, and the repressive regime that followed it, who gets to decide how the past is remembered?

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Guests: 

- Marta Santiváñez, producer for Times Radio.

- Sir Paul Preston, professor of international history at the London School of Economics.

Host: Luke Jones.

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