
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


A regular morning turned into a day of nightmares for Spanish commuters on 11 March 2004.
In the space of minutes, 10 bombs detonated on trains around Madrid, killing nearly 200 people and injuring more than 1,800.
With a general election three days away, the political fall-out was dramatic.
In 2014, two politicians from opposite sides told Mike Lanchin about that terrible day – and what happened next.
(Photo: The wreckage of a commuter train. Credit: Bruno Vincent/Getty Images)
By BBC World Service4.5
898898 ratings
A regular morning turned into a day of nightmares for Spanish commuters on 11 March 2004.
In the space of minutes, 10 bombs detonated on trains around Madrid, killing nearly 200 people and injuring more than 1,800.
With a general election three days away, the political fall-out was dramatic.
In 2014, two politicians from opposite sides told Mike Lanchin about that terrible day – and what happened next.
(Photo: The wreckage of a commuter train. Credit: Bruno Vincent/Getty Images)

7,727 Listeners

369 Listeners

531 Listeners

879 Listeners

1,036 Listeners

286 Listeners

5,506 Listeners

1,817 Listeners

3,184 Listeners

1,874 Listeners

585 Listeners

521 Listeners

598 Listeners

107 Listeners

77 Listeners

4,812 Listeners

739 Listeners

249 Listeners

841 Listeners

371 Listeners

227 Listeners

327 Listeners

3,167 Listeners

64 Listeners

842 Listeners

1,001 Listeners

500 Listeners

611 Listeners

285 Listeners

275 Listeners

26 Listeners

66 Listeners

82 Listeners

2 Listeners