Digitization Effort Is the Latest Plot Twist for Cuban Radio Soap Operas

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Post by petethomas » Sat, May 18, 2019, 8:07 PM UTC

Digitization Effort Is the Latest Plot Twist for Cuban Radio Soap Operas
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Re: Digitization Effort Is the Latest Plot Twist for Cuban Radio Soap Operas

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Post by oobika » Sun, May 19, 2019, 6:54 PM UTC

I've been learning Spanish for a year now. Seems that audiobooks aren't that popular in Spanish. Apparently radionovelas were. Seems like a great way to keep learning.

Re: Digitization Effort Is the Latest Plot Twist for Cuban Radio Soap Operas

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Post by narag » Sun, May 19, 2019, 7:27 PM UTC

In Spain radionovelas were wildly popular time ago. My grandma religiously listening to the daily chapter mixes with memories of The Beatles, Build Me Up Buttercap or Sandy Shaw. There was a guy, Guillermo Sautier Casaseca, a difficult name to forget, that wrote tons of them.

I didn't think they were still a thing. In the eighties TV soap operas from Venezuela and Mexico were very popular. At college we got hooked to the Columbian Caballo viejo that was absolutely hillarious, not sure if intentionally.

Now they come from Turkey.