Carmen Romero and the interview that could not be

This week Xabier Fortes interviewed the translator of Anna Banti into Spanish, but they did not talk about literature, which is one of his favorite topics.

They were at the Palace, in a special program of

on the TVE news channel that commemorated that other night 40 years ago in which the PSOE made history and changed history.

His appearance was a success of Fortes and a television event, as it is well known that Carmen Romero does not lavish on these nostalgia.

That's why it's a shame that the interview was somewhat spoiled, among so many men with ties.

We were left wanting to hear more of a voice so lavish in confessions and that she seemed so willing to make them.

Romero spoke of the vertigo of that October 28, 1982, and clarified that it was a vertigo of fear of death.

There were more than 20 attacks in those days and an attempted coup d'état was dismantled.

She told something about the bodeguilla, she evoked the naive enthusiasm of the underground and remembered how she would go with her hair combed to teach her night high school classes because, when she finished, she would run off to a state dinner.

But when she more relaxed she looked herself, the interview ended.

It is the curse of television with rigid rundowns, without mercy for the characters that require another conversation.

The Fortes special wanted to take us back to 1982, but every time we settled into that year, the script took a turn and brought us back to the present of short sentences and fleeting shots.

"What that was can continue to be", was Romero's last sentence,

almost an aphorism.

With a couple of shots, the director denied it.

Nothing can remain.

Everything slips away quickly and we barely take a look at what was.

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