As part of the Radio Theater Regular Season on 95.2 Ràdio, we will recover the radio serial 'El Pan y la Tierra', original by the Andalusian writer installed in Terrassa Angel Cazorla.
“El Pan y la Tierra” was initially conceived as a novel in 1959, and in 1961, it reached the final stage of an important literary prize in Spain. Fou published in printed edition in 1974 by the author's mateix. In 1987, the Quadre de Veus de Radioteatre, aleshores attached to the defunct Ràdio Terrassa EAJ25, proposed to Cazorla the adaptation of the novel to be broadcast as a radio serial. After several months of success, the radio novel, with a total of fifty capitols, was released in the spring of 1989, and achieved notable success at the time of its broadcast.
Angel Cazorla, born in Santa Cruz de Marchena (Almeria) in 1930, has spent most of his life in Terrassa. He is the author of over a hundred novels on Western, war, science fiction and other genres, published under the pseudonym Kent Wilson. Furthermore, he is also the author of more than three hundred translations, thousands of journalistic articles and several hundred poems.
''El Pan y la Tierra'' is a rural drama that takes place during the second decade of the 20th century in a town in the province of Almeria. The action is located during the glorious era of the development of the famous “Boarding Grape”, a native variety of the area, originating in the mid-19th century, and exported to a large part of the European countries and the United States. ''The Bread and the Earth'' is the story of a town, of its customs, of its idiosyncrasy, and of its qualssevol personas, everyone belonging to a mateixa família, which is shared between old loves, ages, odis, passions,..., in the shadow of a strange destiny I capritxós now.
As of February 2 and for eleven consecutive weeks, thirty years after its premiere, we will be able to revisit this passionate story through our weekly radio broadcast of Teatre Radiofònic on 95.2 Ràdio. Let's hope you enjoy it.