New episode of “Les Teresines pim pam pum”. Chapter 6: Likes, haters and influencers

You can listen to it here: CHAPTER 6

The topic that Catalunya Ràdio proposes to you this week to talk about in the podcast is the Eurovision Song Contest. At the same time, this week they are preparing an order for 15,000 totebags for the firefighters’ race and they are very busy. The radio is very happy with them because the latest podcasts have been very successful and they have become real influencers, which will cause them many headaches and some problems.

Chapter 5 is available!

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The Teresines are loyal viewers of  the tv weatherman. Since they are not stupid, they have already know  that something about climate is wrong: global warming is a topic of daily conversation where everyone has an opinion, but everybody speaks without knowing much about it. Les Teresines don’t know exactly who is to blame: cow farts, plastics and rubbish, rockets to the moon… Catalunya Ràdio asks Les Teresines to talk about climate change in the podcast. Taking advantage of the visit to Barcelona of a personality known internationally for this subject, the radio director wants the Teresines to be the hosts and responsible for interviewing her. Everything turns wrong and they will try to get away with it as best they can!

Chapter 4: Are the children only carried by the storks?

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Chapter 4: Are the children only carried by the storks?

The concept of family has evolved a lot in recent decades. The radio director wants Les Teresines to talk about it in the podcast this week. New family models have appeared and the way to have and conceive children… but Les Teresines, who as children were brought up thinking that children came from Paris, even though they are modern single women, are not very up to date on adoptions, surrogate pregnancies and artificial inseminations. In any case, they will solve it asking here and there, and with some surprise in between, they will get some answers.

Chapter 3: The madness about cuisine! Available now!

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Chapter 3: The madness about cuisine

The theme of the podcast this week is the craze that has recently gripped us all for the cuisine: the obsession about Mihcelin Star restaurants, cooking programs on television, about reductions, spherifications, of weird ingredients, etcetera. “Les Teresines” only understand about cannelloni, escudella and carn d’olla and everything that traditional Catalan cuisine entails, but they have no idea about “pitiminí” restaurants!

“Chapter 2: Beyond the economy” is now available

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CHAPTER 2: Beyond the economy

This week, Catalunya Radio ask Les Teresines that in their podcast they must talk about the economy. How can they manage to be able to talk about it? In addition to not knowing anything about it, they are not the most suitable people to talk about it, since they have always practiced submerged economy. How they will get out of it?

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CHAPTER 1: The podcast and the future of the radio

Catalunya Ràdio commissioned Les Teresines to talk about the podcasts and the future of radio in our country in the first program. Les Teresines know about radio, but  what they don’t have any idea is what a podcast is, and for this reason they will have to investigate about it. Finally, they will end up talking about the past, present and future of radio.

 

Prologue

PROLOGUE

Les Teresines are very busy getting ready a “pedido” of tableclothes for a very important restaurant when sudenly they recieve a phonecall that messes up the afternoon.

La Cubana presents the podcast “Les Teresines pim pam pum”

To celebrate the World Radio Day, on February 13th, we have presented “Les Teresines pim pam pum”, a new comedy podcast that can be found weekly on the Catalunya Radio website and app

A La Cubana hem fet moltes coses (teatre al carrer, teatre dins dels teatres, concerts de música, saraus publicitaris, convencions empresarials, festes, inauguracions, pregons, exposicions… i fins i tot televisió), però mai havíem fet radio.

La direcció de Catalunya Radio ens va venir a buscar per fer-nos la proposta de fer un podcast de ficció en clau de comèdia. De seguida vam dir que sí, i quasi sense pensar-ho, ens vam posar a treballar amb molt d’entusiasme. Després d’estudiar-ho vam arribar a l’acord de fer-ho a través d’uns personatges molt coneguts i estimats de la nostra trajectòria: Les Teresines, unes senyores molt carismàtiques i emprenedores, capaces de fer de tot i a les que mai “els cauen els anells” per res.

La proposta consisteix en el de sempre: Un joc entre ficció i realitat, però en aquest cas jugant al teatre des de la radio: es tractaria d’una aposta valenta de la direcció de Catalunya Radio, que confia per primera vegada un programa (en aquest cas un podcast) a uns personatges que “son com son” i que “saben el que saben i no més”, perquè cada setmana parlin a la radio d’un tema seriós, però explicat a la seva manera i amb el seu vocabulari, acompanyades això sí, per veïns i “amics i coneguts “ de tota la vida, i també per personatges reals de tot tipus que les assessoren en cada tema.

Ha estat una experiència fantàstica, on hem après molt i que, a més, ens ha permès retrobar i reviure, després de 31 anys, a tot un univers de personatges i situacions esbojarrades molt estimades per nosaltres.

Aquest projecte, que l’hem anomenat “Teresines pim, pam, pum” consta d’un pròleg i vuit capítols escrits i dirigits per Jordi Milán, i en el que hi intervenen les actrius Mercè Comes, Mont Pans i Montse Amat interpretant les tres Teresines, així com també dels actors i actrius: Anna Barrachina, José Corbacho, Santi Millán, Xavi Tena, Filomena Martorell, David Ramírez, Meritxell Huertas, Maria Garrido, Nuria Benet, Àlex Gonzàlez, Toni Sans, Virginia Melgar, Gigi Figueras, Victor G. Casademunt, Pol Vinyes, i Jordi Milan així com també amb la participació especial en alguns capítols de: Santi Faro. Juliana Canet. Toni Clapes , Luis del Olmo  Carme Ruscalleda , Raul Balam , Oriol Mitja, T, Gemma Puig i Judit Masco.

In La Cubana we have done many things (theatre in the street, theater inside theatres, music concerts, advertising saaras, business conventions, parties, openings, proclamations, exhibitions… and even television), but we have never done radio before.

The management of Catalunya Radio came to us with a proposition to create a fictional comedy podcast. We immediately said yes, and almost without hesitation, we got to work with great enthusiasm. After studying what to do, we came to the idea to tell a story through some very well-known and beloved characters from our career: Les Teresines, a very charismatic ladies, capable of doing everything that comes to their mind without hesitation.

The project consists of the usual we do: It is a game between fiction and reality, but in this case playing through the radio enviroment: the brave management of Catalunya Radio decides to propose to Les Teresines (characters that are “who they are” and “who know what they know, and nothing more”) to talk every week in a podcast about a serious topic, but explained in their own way and with their own vocabulary. Tehy will be accompanied, of course, by neighbors and lifelong “friends and acquaintances”, and also by real characters who will advise them on each issue or topic.

Working in the podcast has been a fantastic experience for La Cubana, where we’ve learned a lot and which, in addition, has allowed us to rediscover and revive, after 31 years, a whole universe of characters and crazy situations that we love very much.

This project, which we have called “Teresines pim, pam, pum” consists of a prologue and eight chapters written and directed by Jordi Milán, and in which the actresses Mercè Comes, Mont Pans and Montse Amat take part, interpreting the three Teresines, as well as the actors and actresses: Anna Barrachina, José Corbacho, Santi Millán, Xavi Tena, Filomena Martorell, David Ramírez, Meritxell Huertas, Maria Garrido, Nuria Benet, Àlex Gonzàlez, Toni Sans, Virginia Melgar, Gigi Figueras, Victor G. Casademunt, Pol Vinyes, and Jordi Milan as well as with the special participation in some chapters by: Santi Faro, Juliana Canet, Toni Clapés, Luis del Olmo, Carme Ruscalleda, Raul Balam, Oriol Mitjà, Tomàs Molina, Gemma Puig and Judit Masco.

The prologue and the first chapter can be found on the Catalunya Radio website and through its App from 7pm. New episodes will be uploaded every week until the last one, which is the 8th.

JOAN ALONSO, “LA BOCAS” HAS DIED AGE 74

Joan Alonso, known artistically and popularly as “La Bocas,” has been the characterizer and creator of all the looks for the characters of La Cubana since 1983, both in theater and on television.

Apart from La Cubana, he has been one of the best makeup artists in the country over the last fifty years. He has collaborated on films such as “Love Seriously Harms Health” (1996, directed by Gómez Pereira), “Karnabal” (1985, by Los Comediants), and “Souvenir” (1994, by Rosa Vergés). On television, he has worked on shows like “La Parodia Nacional” and “Teveo de Noche.” In the advertising field, he has created the characterization for numerous advertising campaigns, notably the different seasons of the Freixenet commercials. He has also been a mentor to many professionals who have gained fame in the world of characterization.

For La Cubana, his passing is a significant and irreparable loss, as he has been the creator of a universe of characters in every one of the company’s shows since 1983. From the beloved Teresinas to Estrellita Verdiales and the peculiar characters in “Cegada de Amor” not to mention the endearing characterizations he brought to “Cómeme el Coco, Negro”