Friendship in Redondo – Podcast 01

“We come to Redondo as visitors and we leave as friends”. Ana Bravo’s phrase in the podcast we publish today sums up the experience of those who visit Redondo. In the Alentejo town we have the wine, the clay, the singing and the skirts, we have the landscape and the marks of other times. But it’s the people who make it special.

Today we publish our first podcast. The author is Ana Bravo, one of the most remarkable voices of TSF, author of programmes such as “Magazine Global”, “Zona Ribeirinha” or “Área de Serviço”, some of them in partnership, with a career that started in Rádio Comercial and also in Telefonia de Lisboa.

She signs this article because the podcast is the main content. It’s close to an hour of broadcasting resulting from the author’s experience in Redondo.

In this podcast emission 01 we have very special guests. Janita Salomé tells us that when the people of Redondo have a party, they really mean it. We were able to prove this during four days and nights when we joined the voices of the troubadours of Redondo in the saias and modas of the Alentejo singing in a typical Alentejo tavern named: the Taverna do Trovador, where we ate a soup of purslane which is to die for.

Ana Bravo takes us and her guests to learn about the origins of the Ruas Floridas (flowery streets), with historian José Calado who takes us through the centuries. Alexandre Relvas Júnior, the man at the head of Casa Relvas, explains the fame of Redondo wines, and Armindo Ramalhosa, former town councillor, tells us what is special about the town.

The traditional pottery is one of the town’s hallmarks. To the sounds of the wheel, Ana Bravo talks to the master potter José Baeta and her microphone still captures the ancient call of the muleteers.

This is a land of artists and the soundtrack of the programme is quality and varied. The podcast begins with a female cante. Ana Bravo is moved by the voices of the Cantadeiras de Redondo and, later, she is surprised by the electrifying version that the band General Tempestade did of “Vejam Bem”, by Zeca Afonso.

Go back to the beginning of the article, press the player and listen to our first podcast, written by Ana Bravo with sound effects by Herlander Rui.