What the radio has

No matter how long I had been on the radio, my mother always asked me the same question, no matter how much I scolded her: what time do you perform?

For her, that of making a program was still a staging, although later she would tell me if I ended up angry or happy.

I suppose that because she was my mother, that they know these things, and then because it is true that the radio has the virtue of discovering impostures.

It happens in interviews, for example, when you try to get a headline from someone even if it comes with a thousand sentences to avoid giving you the one you were looking for.

It will not matter: sometimes the news will be in an inflection, in a climate.

The radio is much more than the things that are said, luckily, and the tone is the key to all of them.

Now he is celebrating, because he has celebrated his day.

Actually, he celebrates that he is still in shape and has an impact, despite the fact that time seemed to go elsewhere.

The radio, in its classic support or in the new audio platforms, has been adapting because we need it, which says more about us than about the medium.

Because the number of people who are alone, and have the radio, is growing.

Because in the middle of the

war a natural complicity is required, and the radio has it.

Because there is a lack of information, and it gives it.

Because it creates a community and it's always there: it lets you do it and surrounds you until, if it's done well and when you least expect it, you'll find yourself looking at the speaker or headphones without being able to get out of the car.

There is no greater challenge in the world of images than having to capture with words.

There it goes, after all.

It is the battery-powered transistor that has kept thousands of Ukrainians awake at night since the Russian invasion began, the one that countries in crisis ask their citizens to keep for what may happen.

It was the radio that accompanied us in the pandemic, the one that gives emotion to the matches and is the one that remains attentive to what the listeners explain with their voice notes or with something even more revolutionary: phone calls, in which that life is strained to pieces while one stays to listen because what that listener describes happens to me too or I can't stop hearing that story.

The radio continues to be, by far, the best medium for spinning political chronicles without the need to resort to a prefabricated statement: it will suffice to point out a clearing of the throat or a hesitation.

It will be enough to give it a tone and put the right words to it.

That is why she thus resists almost 100 years of her, seductive, sincere and complicit: because there is no other medium like the radio.

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