On Monday, Spain went dark. Two days ago, at 12:33PM, the entirety of the Iberian Peninsula lost power completely. Mainland Spain, Portugal and part of France shut down from one moment to the next. Every home, business, traffic light, train, lost electricity. Hospitals worked with back-up generators, while traffic jams lasted for hours. We are Spanish National Radio's English broadcast, and we will be dedicating today's broadcast to explain how Spain went through the crisis and what the aftershocks are.

We also talk to Pablo Ledesma, Associate Professor of Electric Engineering of the Carlos III University of Madrid, about what might have caused the blackout, and whether it might happen again.

The International Girls in ICT Day is celebrated every year on the fourth Thursday in April. A day to encourage girls and young women to pursue technological degrees and raise awareness about the gender gap in ICT. In Spain, less than 20% of people who work in tech are women, and only 1.5% of girls want to pursue a career in STEM, according to the latest survey conducted by the National Obervatory of Technology and Society.

Ester Maestro, programs director at the "Cibervoluntarios" foundation, joined us in this broadcast to tell us about their project "Innovadoras TIC" (women innovators ITC).

After that, we speak with Conxi Perez, IT engineer and CEO of "Rolldbox Games" about her experience as a woman in tech.

To celebrate this year's World Book Day, we visited a unique bookstore located in the heart of Madrid. The Secret Kingdoms is the only bookstore in the city with a catalog exclusively in English. A hidden treasure in Madrid's literary quarter. Owner David Price opened its doors for us.