Finally making progress on the Memorial Day show -- shows, I should say. Last night I started to work on the audio of my dad. Went through the whole thing, cut it into the discrete segments that will be aired, and cut out the chit-chat in between. 16 segments in all, whew! Most are 2-3 minutes long but a couple are longer. I was hoping to get the first segment edited last night but the first pass took until 10:30, and by then I was too tired. Last time I remember the editing required fairly intense concentration, just to listen so closely. Anyway, if I can get 3 segments done a night, I'll be in good shape and the weekend won't be totally insane.
Then this morning I got the transcript and partial audio for about the first quarter of the Italian show. Woo! Francesca is reading her own part of the interview in English (the questions I mean), and fellow dj Santa Salsera agreed to read Signor Bucca's part. She has an excellent radio voice, so I know it will sound great and I'm incredibly grateful to her. Before I had wanted Francesca to read both parts, but now that I hear it, it's way too conversational. It sounds weird to have one person reading both parts & it's hard to tell sometimes when she's speaking for herself and when she's speaking for her father. This way will be much better.
The interview with Signor Bucca is wonderful. I'm so glad to have the (partial) transcript. Here's my favorite story so far:
Where did the partisans hide?
On the mountains and in the valleys where the planes couldn't spot them.
You once told me that your mother gave them clothes.
Yes. We almost ended up having no more clothes... they asked for civilian clothes, but we didn't have many! At the end, it's almost funny, she only had these long, white drawer with lace, she told the soldier that she had nothing else. The soldier replied he'd do with it; he turned his coat inside out, and went away wearing my mother's underpants... The soldiers left their weapons at my house.
Why did they leave their weapons?
Because if they should be caught by the Nazi hidden in the cities, carrying no weapons they wouldn't be recognized as deserting soldiers..
Tell me what you did with the weapons.
We played with them. We were so irresponsible...
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