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The presenter: “Well, we follow, because today Raul Diaz has promised us a section with a lot of TV, a lot of geography and lots of water, but I think that here, in the set, we are safe and it will not splash us. We are going over, it seems, the rivers of Spain, but you know what they say: "Where there is a patron, no sailor has authority", so let us welcome to the man of files, Raul Diaz. Welcome, partner".
Raúl Diaz: “Have you learned the lesson?”
The presenter: “I think so”
Raúl: “Because today it is a class of Geography”
The presenter: “It is not my strong theme, but…Marta, you get it, it is a class of Geography….…”
Marta: “Yes, I am very good with maps. Recalculating, recalculating, recalculating…”
Raúl: “Calm, calm, calm…Are our viewers who have to prove their knowledge. On this occasion, we are going to focus on Hydrology of Spain; we will review some of the most important rivers of our country, specifically through a documentary series that is named "Rivers".
Marta: “Miño, Duero…”
The presenter: “Tajo, Guadina, Guadalquivir…”
Marta: “Ebro, Júcar and Segura”
Raúl: “One ten for each of you. The program aired among 1974 and 1975 and was recorded on film, with a great display of means. Over those years, the color television began to arrive to Spain timidly; so some of you have never seen this series as you are going to watch it today: with a full color”
The presenter: “And in Panoramic”
Raúl: “We start in the south. Are you ready with your swimsuit?, Well ... we dived in the Guadalquivir ... "
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Raúl: “Are you of sweet water or salt water?”
A lady: “Of sweet water”
Raúl: “Oh, perfect, because we are going to talk about the rivers…”
Raúl: “Would you know to point me the river Guadalquivir on the map?”
A sir: “Oh, it is passing through Sevilla.., yes”
Voice in off: “I saw you at Cazorla birth, I saw you at Sanlúcar to die…..As in the verse of Antonio Machado, the Guadalquivir is the synthesis of the life and death of Andalusia, backwardness and hope South Spanish. Never a river in Spain, was identified with a region like Andalusia with the Guadalquivir. As Andalusia, the Guadalquivir saved at every step, a surprise, an unusual profile, as surprising and unusual is the existence of a trout fish farm, in the heart of the South, sung with a Saeta for ever, by the country topic and unknown in his secrets .
Raúl: “What is the main feature of the river Guadalquivir?”
A sir: “It was a seaport and it is navigable”
Raúl: “Exactly, because it is navigable”
Voice in off: “The Guadalquivir is going to become the wide and slow river of the countryside, increased its flow through the rivers discharging into it, with a wide basin that extends for about 60,000 km2, almost all the southern fringe of Spain”.
Raúl: “Is it navigable or is not navigable the river Guadalquivir?”
The presenter: “Yes, yes .. but it is a curious method”
Raúl: “Now out of jokes ... The Port of Seville it is the only river and commercial across the country -- by the way, have you noticed the very particular style of storytelling the wonders of the river?—“
Marta: “I love it. Just as bombastic, as prosaic, nothing to do with the journalistic styles of our days: more direct”.
Raúl: “Yes. The serie “The rivers” Rivers had a web of NO-DO, not only in terms of the realization and the locution, but also to the whole idea of the program and the people and traditions that arose on the banks of rivers”.
The presenter: “Well, a bit of television Anthropology, so to speak”
Raúl: “We are now going to the Tajo: a river that, years ago, was used to transport timber from northern forests. Look, look”.
Voice in off: “I am at 1600 meters altitude. It is amazing that this channel, just drawn, and this minimum flow, give for 1000 km of river, 1000 km long, only in Spain: 910 ...... This is where it was embarked, in times of gancheros”
A worker: “It Began on the grounds of “Los Valle”, but away from the trout farm and ended at the "Arenal corruchel", on the grounds of the island Aranjuez”.
Voice in off: “Way of lumber, the river goes down noisy and crowded”
Raúl: “The Tajo is the longest river of the Iberian Peninsula: born in Teruel and dies in the Atlantic Ocean. Want to know more curiosities?, then, be attentive”.
Voice in off: “Tajo is in Aranjuez, which arm is bent, flow 26,000 m3 per second. Bodas with Jarama, 400 m altitude”
Raúl: “Would you know put myself on the map the Tajo river?”
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A young lady: “Over here, more or less .... Oh, I do not know it.... Over here………. "
An old lady: “This one”
Raúl: “Longest?”
The old lady: “The longest, of course”
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Raúl: “What pretty images….. We sailed to the south and the North Central, but in this review, we can not forget the mighty one …………”
The presenter: “The Ebro, the Ebro, the Ebro”
Raúl: “The Ebro, really. Born in Cantabria and empties into the Mediterranean, as a Delta, in a land famous for its rice and its biodiversity”
Marta: “And what do you think about its way through Zaragoza ...? , awesome image of Basilica of the Pilar with the river next ...”
Raúl: “Well, all that was precisely what got the special, which the "Rivers" dedicated to the Ebro”:
Voice in off: “It is Ebro, after the Nile, the longest river of the Mediterranean. It dominates these scores a monument to the Virgin: the Pilarica, Lady of the Ebro”.
Raúl: “Would you know to point me the Ebro river in this map?”
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A very young woman: “This one….?”
Raúl: “Right!”
Voice in off: “Ebro arises between rocks as islands, in the middle of a dark swollen vegetation and full of lake waters. Ebro arises between rocks as islands, in the middle of a dark vegetation and full of lake waters. Stands the beauty of the abode clavelina out. The landscape ties the cables of the plateau and the sea; the hills approach it; the waters cross timid, prospector of the big river”.
Raúl: “The Ebro River is the most abundant of Spain; it passes through 7 Autonomous Communities and 2 provincial capitals (Logroño and Zaragoza)…….. Zaragoza - Jota, Pilar of the Spains. Zaragoza. But, become jealous, the river boils, pushes water after water ... calls me, makes me go soon to its way. We contemplate the oak forests, mountaineering Hague, the Sotomonte of Heather and Ferns. Ebro, which hiente leagues. The cameras, flying magic impassively,the goodbyes, calm, to open sea”.
Raúl: “And from the mouth of the Ebro river to another river, whom is not known exactly where it born”.
The presenter: “But let us see, Raul, that is geographically impossible”
Raúl: “Yes, and it happens in our country, with the Guadiana”
Marta: “Let us see, maybe what you mean is that it rises to the surface and then it hides under the ground ....”
Raúl: “No, no, no….what I mean is what I have said. Scholars continue to disagree on establishing the exact point where the Guadiana born. Already announced the Series "Rivers" and the issue is still not resolved”.
Voice in off: “Nobody knows for sure where the river is born. Bring half Moorish name, the other half Romano.That Lugadi (rio) from the Ana. In Castilian, it is said: Guadiana”.
Raúl: “Why the Guadiana river is popular?”
A lady: “The Guadiana…Well, but I have no idea”
A sir: “It goes underground and it comes back to go out”
Raúl: “Very well, because it appears and disappears; perfect”
Another voice in off: “Thanks to the channeling of the swamp, in the Strait of Peñarroya, has completely changed the physiognomy of much of La Mancha. This river, which for us represents the economic boom to the region, may be so for their potential needs, demands and wants. Just as the same time that we have this expanse of water, which gives us the Guadiana, an amount far greater, we have it in the basement, in the basement of La Mancha, which is a real sea, and an economic support needed to make it effective and do productive”.
Raúl: “Could you point me in the Guadiana river on this map?”
A sir: “Could it be this one?”
Raúl: “Perfect…the Guadiana”
The first voice in off: “In another time, we will talk about "The eyes of the Guadiana". Now, for the moment, for you, for us, it sounds break time”
……………..music and dancing………………………
Raúl: “Till now, we have seen some swamps, some dams; but today we want to dismiss with a news, related with other type of infrastructure.. --which by the way has also changed the physiognomy of our country—“
Marta: “Let us see….tell us”
Raúl: “1992, Spain is immersed in the process of modernization: the EXPO, the Olimpics Games and the arrival of the AVE (one of the faster trains in that moment)”
The presenter: “Yes. Madrid-Seville, Seville-Madrid….Now they say that we are one of the pioneer countries in this regard of the High Speed”.
Raúl: “The line that you have mentioned, which was the first, was opened to the public on April 21, 1992, but a week before the 14th, the first trip, wherein were Authorities, journalists and other chosen people”.
Marta: “And now, we”
Raúl: “But, the truth is yes. Quickly, that this already leaves. Recalling how was that first trip on the AVE, we say goodbye for today; back in 7 days, with more Tele for everyone”.
Matias Prats: “Very good afternoon. The AVE: the first Spanish train of High Speed has made this afternoon the first official trip among Madrid and Seville, which has had a duration of 2 hours and 52 minutes. At 3 and 31 minutes, in the afternoon, the AVE came out of the new station of Atocha in Madrid, was the maiden voyage and inside it were the Deputy Prime Minister (Narcis Serra), the Ministers Borrell and Zapatero, the President of RENFE , senior officials of the administration and about 80 journalists. Now we are going to tell you how it was, inside, the first trip in high speed, in the AVE”.
Voice in off: “With the nerves of the first day, the wait has lasted until Avelino has taken the control. Since year and a half, he has lived on this train more than with his family. Before the AVE gave its full output, has confessed that was quieter than ever".
Avelino: "You become an automaton, in relation to the train. i.e., for you, everyone disappears and it is just only you and the train. Before you leave, you feel everything”.
A waiter: “This does not move, you look at me standing ...,. Because we are now on a ramp, but you go away moving and it normally does not move much, the truth”
A young lady: “The trouble is that the Minister has not seen that the hall is a bit tight”
Voice in off: “Here it is difficult to get bored. Today most preferred park video, drink or game of Checkers, not to miss the show. It ate almost 500 km in 3 hours. The AVE has buried the old image of the train”
Well, here finished the program “The rivers”. I hope that you have enjoyed.
Till next time,kind regards,
Luis.
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