"Historias de Papel", a programme capable of withstanding storms
This is one of those little stories that make public radio great. We¿re referring to ¿Historias de Papel¿ (¿Paper Stories¿) Spanish National Radio¿s (¿RNE¿) programme dedicated to promoting reading, directed by Manuel Pedraz, which celebrates its 24th anniversary this Sunday...
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Books were to be near him and his children. That was the dual requirement that led to a story that is celebrating its 24th anniversary this Sunday... We¿re talking about ¿Historias de Papel¿, the most veteran programme on RNE dedicated to promoting reading that has had the same goal since it started: to bring books to the people naturally.
An entire ¿HP¿ generation, says Pedraz, has grown up literarily alongside a radio programme that, above all, is familiar... Here, says Pedraz, we find Felipe Benítez Reyes, Antonio Orejudo or Antonio Muñoz Molina, part of the big ¿Historias de Papel¿ family, a programme produced by and for the listeners, who are the real protagonists, Pedraz says of the programme...
This is, very briefly, the story of a programme that justifies public radio... But it is also the story of a journalist with over 30 years on the job. Of someone convinced that books make us better... That is the key reason for promoting reading and, against all odds, maintaining a programme about books capable of withstanding storms...
