Dipalme Radio, the radio station managed by the Provincial Council of Almería, and the Quadre de Veus de Radioteatre reach an agreement for the transfer of the radio series 'El Pan y la Tierra', originally by the Almerian author based in Terrassa Ángel Cazorla. The initiative is framed as one of the multiple tributes received by Cazorla in his land of origin, promoted by various individuals and associations in recent years.
Cazorla, who has lived in Terrassa for most of his life, is originally from the Almeria town of Santa Cruz de Marchena. Born into a humble and hardworking family dedicated to farming, from a young age he alternated his studies with field work, while showing a great interest in literature. At the age of fourteen, he abandoned his studies and shortly after moved to live in Catalonia, where he began to work in various fields. His beginnings as a literary author date back to 1952, when, at the age of twenty-two, he began writing literary texts of a detective, war, science fiction, and above all, stories of the West or
"westerns", using the pseudonym Kent Wilson. In 1957 he moved to live in Belgium, in the Leuven region, where he combined his professional activity as a construction worker with attending night classes in English and French until he obtained his diploma. In 1959, the nervous ordeal caused by the overload of work in the professional sphere, studies and the cold climate of the region led Cazorla to write the rural drama 'El Pan y la Tierra', in which the memories and nostalgia of his childhood are very present, and which serves as an escape valve for all the pressure he endured. In 1960, Cazorla returned to Terrassa, where he had left three years earlier. Since then, he has worked as a sales executive for an important textile company in the city and has traveled around the world, without forgetting, however, his literary hobby, especially poetry, which he continues to develop over the years. Upon retirement, Cazorla once again established his residence in his native town, where he collaborates with different local entities and develops a great deal of cultural activity. At the beginning of the 21st century, he returned to Terrassa to settle permanently.
'El Pan y la Tierra' is a rural drama set in an imaginary town in the province of Almeria. The action describes the history of a town, its customs, its idiosyncrasies, and a series of characters who move between loves, hates, jealousies and passions subjected to a strange and capricious fate. The radio series consists of fifty episodes of approximately a quarter of an hour each that will be broadcast by the Almeria station with a majority audience in the towns of the province, a fact that will make many of the inhabitants of these lands relive the past.
The serial will begin airing on Dipalme Radio on February 9th and will be broadcast weekly every Tuesday between 2:45 PM and 4:00 PM.