Federico García Lorca was arrested by Nationalist forces in Granada in August 1936, taken to a hillside, and shot. His body has never been found. The killing of Spain’s most celebrated poet became one of the defining crimes of the Spanish Civil War.

This episode traces Lorca’s life from the Andalusian countryside to the stages of Madrid and New York, and examines the political and personal motives behind his assassination.

• How his poetry and plays captured the spirit of Spain’s avant-garde
• His time in New York and the poems it inspired
• The political climate in Granada that made him a target
• The failed attempts to locate his remains and the questions that persist