is both a popular podcast on Cadena SER and an informative history book by the Spanish journalist Nieves Concostrina .
Published in 2021, the book functions as a sharp narration that offers another "turn of the screw" to history.
: Over its 400 pages, it explores the triumphs and failures of emperors, popes, and ordinary people.
: Each episode typically focuses on a specific historical figure, event, or "superstition".
The podcast features Concostrina and a team of collaborators, including Emma Vallespinós, Ana Valtierra, Pepe Rubio, and Jesús Pozo.
: Episodes have covered subjects like the Battle of Trafalgar as a "glorious defeat," the controversial life of Prince Don Carlos (son of Philip II), and the public executions in Spain that were treated as "festivals" until 1900. The Book (La Esfera de los Libros)