Part 4 of ‘Research skills for oral history’ includes an interview with Darren Paffey talking about ‘Interviewing historically important people’. It also includes the raw, unedited footage of an interview with Manuel Simon Velasco, conducted by Alicia Pozo Gutierrez and Darren Paffey, of the University of Southampton, on 7th/8th July, 2008. It is in Spanish and is in two recordings of 1 hour and 50 minutes, and 1 hour 36 mins. Also included is a transcript and synopsis in English. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. This means that you may download and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes but you must credit the original author. All use and versions of this material should be attributed. Please cite this work as: OpenLIVES project (2012). An open collection of research data and teaching materials relating to Spanish migrant stories. JISC