María Pilar Díaz Rodríguez

Interview covers: childhood in a relatively comfortable family in Castilla-La Mancha; school experience and a formative female teacher; gender expectations and curfews for young women; working life in 1960s Madrid; her father's ambiguous wartime trajectory (Republican then Nationalist) and his non-vengeful character; lack of personal fear under the regime; emigration to Australia; and the cultural shock of returning to a Spain undergoing rapid social change after Franco's death.