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| Kabir's Italian radio show Ch@t - weekly wrap - This week's social agenda on Mompracem includes visits by astronaut Neil Armstrong, Formula One champion Niki Lauda, and Mr. Guggenheim, the art collector. Meanwhile, a power blackout brings changes to Verdeluna's life. We hear of rocks and sirens, savour Chopin nocturnes, and cringe to Olivia's yodelling antics. #16 - Tonight it's the Mompracem colony of flying fish that's been holding up our pirate. Yanez has brought a grand concert piano to his beach kiosk. And speaking of instruments, Patrizia has brought along Alessandro, a boy whose mother is in prison. [note: the Rai summary calls the boy Roberto, but Verdeluna clearly calls him Alessandro]. The kid has found the old harmonica that useless ex Renato once bought his son Valerio in the vain hope it would discourage his fascination for the trumpet. Naturally, boy (age 2, but so fat he looks 12) plus harmonica have turned what should have been Verdeluna's quiet afternoon off into a screeching hell. The Twit ruins Verdeluna's life even when he's not there! - Sandokan's Wisdom of the Day: All of us are responsible for all the world's children. That's the only real glob... blob... globalisation. And: Chopin can bring out the best in any display of flying fish. Must get Yanez to play us a Nocturne. - And so on to kick-boxing. Verdeluna's taken a course. She says it splits her bones and is totally exhausting, but makes her realise she still has energy to fight back against everything that gets her down. You're much closer to Mompracem than you think, Sandokan teases her. Her opponent is Olivia, a big girl from South Tyrol, and like all good (almost-)Germans, what Olivia wants, Olivia gets. Ouch. - Time for some yodelling, and for some strategic advice: there is nothing dishonourable in well-considered flight, and sometimes you have to lose the battle to win the war. Verdeluna agrees. After all, that's what she did on Sunday, running away from Alessandro the musical toddler to find poetry on the edge of town, in a field where she played as a child. Too bad it's been asphalted over... - And finally we return to the nocturnal theme, with Yanez seated at his grand piano to launch into some Chopin. Too bad it's all in the imagination when you're chatting. Not everything, Verdeluna, not quite everything... #17 - Yanez has returned from Cuba with a shipload of excellent cigars, which Sandokan helps him unload. The ship will be needed again soon, for it is Renewal Day on Mompracem, when all that is old and no longer needed is cast off and stored aboard Yannez' gallion. Anything that can't be sold on this floating flea-market is given to charity. Sandokan has donated his old toaster and his mixer. With Yanez' kiosk on the beach, who needs them! - Verdeluna's daughter Patrizia recently collected old toys from families in the neighbourhood and came back with hundreds of dolls, miniature cars and other items. Patrizia is a pirate at heart, looking for treasure in hidden places! But Sandokan has a confession to make... He's also thrown out a large bag of clothes that belonged to Marianna, hoping to finally forget her. But he hasn't quite succeeded. Verdeluna, too, has trouble getting rid of her memories of Renato. One day, on her birthday, her children prepared a wonderful meal served at a candlelit table to suprise her when she came home from work. And even The Twit was there, on his very best behaviour, courteous, soft-spoken, attentive... - Now Verdeluna has even begun to decorate the house with pictures of the four of them in happier times. The inside of Sandokan's gallion, too, is covered in pictures, and if one day it goes to the bottom of the ocean, all his memories will go down with it. Verdeluna vows she will dive into the deep, to bring up one by one the images of the pirate's life... Verdeluna, I want to learn to be an astronaut, and orbit around you to see the side that earthlings never see. Oh Sandokan, why don't you touch down properly and plant your flag? - Sandokan has even got a picture of Neil Amstrong, who came to visit Mompracem after his trip to the moon. He brought space dog Laika, whom he found wandering about on the moon. On Mompracem, Laika fell in love with a baboon and ran away into the jungle. - Verdeluna, too, has met Armstrong in a chat room, toting his telescope - which however he was using to study the strawberry pattern underwear of the student girls next door... Sandokan confesses that pirates go mad for strawberries, and is warned not to finish the way Armstrong did - Verdeluna gave him such a kick he is now right back in orbit... #18 - Sandokan tries to catch a tuna, but this time, the fish wins, taking Sandokan's old fishing pole with it. "I accept defeat when the opponent is stronger and braver," he says. Verdeluna croons: "Oh Sandokan, I do love it when you speak English...It makes you so exotic." - Even Sandokan, sworn enemy of the Raj, once landed his gallion in Brighton in a heavy storm, and found the natives quite happy to fix the damage to his ship. They even fed him cheesecake! So he stayed a year, to study his enemies up close. - So how did Sandokan learn Italian? Now that's a loooong story... England is open to the young and their ambitions, says Verdeluna, whose Valerio is in London now. Italy is old and run by old men clinging to their dusty old seats, with false teeth and toupets. - Verdeluna's shop has been getting lots of job applications from youngsters desperate to do just any menial job, even part-time. So she read their CVs, and was horrified that many of them were university graduates! Nothing is worse for a young person than to feel stuck, unwanted and without a penny in his pocket, Sandokan comments. - Verdeluna took on one of the applicants, a girl called Martina, who turns out to be a wonderful singer. The customers love it, and Martina's even sold a CD or two of her own songs. You're a talent scout, says Sandokan. You're my little siren, and I am the rock that you can rest on, any time you want... I'll come and find you, my rock, and ease myself down gently, right on top of you... I will crumble with emotion, and we will dissolve in the ocean, Sandokan says in exotic English. - Rock and Siren then do their own version of the old Scottish shanty "My bonny is over the ocean." Let us roll on the beach, Verdeluna, let us roll on the beach, right now, as long as we want. Hold me tight, my rock, hold me tight. And still, chatting is all make-belief. Not everything, Verdeluna, not quite everything... #19 - Sandokan the night wolf and Verdeluna discuss doing the chores by candlelight. There was a blackout, and the evening was full of little inconveniences and surprises. Sandokan, too, was surprised by a solar eclipse as he was checking out an island hitherto unknown to man and pirate. When his crew lit up their torches, they discovered they were inside a cave with hundreds of paintings. Sandokan took along a little souvenir, a painting of a person clutching his head between his hands and screaming. Did we hear "All'assalto"? No, cries Verdeluna, a woman of great culture and sophistication, that was "The Cry" by Edvard Munch! At least Sandokan has done the decent thing and given the painting to one Mr Guggenheim, who was visiting Mompracem to open an art exhibition by Yanez. Sandokan always makes Verdeluna laugh. Look out men, you can be rich and handsome, but you're useless if you can't make us laugh! Verdeluna's kickboxing - and yodelling - friend agrees. In the shop, the blackout attracted lots more customers. Martina bought some candles and Sir Hugo nearly had a fit because the till didn't work. On Mompracem, there's electric power too, but apart from a few computers and Yanez' espresso machine, no one really uses it. Halfway through the blackout, Verdeluna's daughter Patrizia calls to say she's stuck in the elevator. When Verdeluna arrives, Patrizia has company, the thirtysomething DJ that her mother was so shocked to find out about. But actually, she is most impressed! What a nice young man, cultured, intelligent, and good-looking! Are you really in love, she asks her daughter when they are alone again, and Patrizia is bright red with embarrassment. Trust a DJ to set the rhythm for any journey, Sandokan says. Come with me, Verdeluna, and we'll tell Sir Hugo you've been kidnapped, and demand a nice little ransom. You'll be my prisoner, but I'll leave you a few candles... #20 - Sandokan and Verdeluna discuss departures. Even the pirate is a chaotic traveller: the last time he left port on his gallion, he managed to forget his sunglasses! Verdeluna is off to Bologna. The owner of a veteran Fiat 131, she is off to visit the Motor Show with her brother Vittorio and his social worker, whose job it is to get him to stop drinking. Sandokan talks about Nikki Lauda's visit to Mompracem, in his Formula One Ferrari. Together, they drove laps around the island. Nikki then traded the car for Yanez' Malaysian girl and a small sailing boat, and off they sailed into the sunset, happy ever after. Yanez then met an Italian merchant, and traded the Ferrari for his first espresso machine. Vittorio was a great sportsman in his young days, always competing against Walter, the future priest. And Verdeluna? She and The Twit were exceedingly good at sporting between the bedsheets. Which brings Verdeluna to remember the first time she played that particular game... except it wasn't really the first, because the boy in question suddenly lost interest. And Sandokan's first time? Was it on the back of the elephant in the top of the palm tree? ...to be continued You'll find daily updates of Kabir's radio show CH@T online at kabir-bedi.com... |
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