Alfredo Urdaci He returned home for a long time. The man who was director of TVE’s information services during a very special period has been reappointed as editor of The Adventure of Knowledge, a very noble program presented by Mara Peterssen and Fede Cardelús.
But meanwhile, another famous former news director, Julio Somoano, manages and presents one of the oases featured in the Channel 24 Horas program, and for those who have not yet discovered it, it takes a while to do so. This is Conversations at the Casa de América, and contrary to what the title suggests, it is one of the most recommended spaces to counter those who demonize the medium of television as mind-destroying. To prove this, it will be enough to take a look at the last half-hour meetings involving María Galiana, Walter Riso or Mario Alonso Puig, but I would like to touch upon a very recent meeting that Somoano also shared. In a conversation with Argentinian philosopher Darío Sztajnszrajber, author of Love Is Impossible, the principles in his speech were: “I don’t know what love is; I know what it isn’t.
From there this man, whose surname is unpronounceable, conquered us with his verb and began to say so many interesting phrases that it was impossible to catch them on the fly: “First love always comes”; “One always has the feeling that true love has not been realized”; “Love begins when language shows its limits”; “Love is always a literary event”, “It is incredible that we believe that we can choose love”. Who was Julio Somoano? Recordings take place every week at the palace in Plaza de Cibeles.