Alice Mascarenhas

Journalist and broadcaster Alice Mascarenhas MBE, presents a book on her late father, prominent journalist and broadcaster Manolo Mascarenhas, who is known for his Radio Gibraltar 1960s broadcasts of ‘Palabras al Viento’ as the book is aptly titled. ‘Palabras al Viento’ is central to this book which is not only biographical but a record of his writings in the newspapers from 1946 to 1972 and which cover most aspects of life in Gibraltar at the time. A panel discussion at this year’s festival will look back on ‘Palabras al Viento’ which played a crucial role in keeping up the morale of the Gibraltarians in the face of the escalating Spanish political campaign against the Rock culminating with the closure of the frontier in 1969 – safeguarding community identity and historical memory.