Has no political ideas?
The reporter asks, doesn’t blurt out his ideas.
Is it bad to blow them?
It weakens you as a journalist.
Because?
Your questions are your weapon… and you weaken them if the other person suspects that you subordinate them to your ideas.
Her secret as an interviewer of politicians at her Cafè d’ideas is…
I study the character a lot: I want to extract some truth that I didn’t plan to let go, and so I ask him and ask him again.
Ask again to bother?
No! If something is not clear to me, I ask again. Not to bother: but to understand.
What has she understood about herself?
That I always pedal. “You must never give up”, my father kept telling me.
And his mother?
She passed away in 2007 and I would want her kindness, humility, beauty and sweetness for me. “Make it short!”: I was in a hurry not to turn around.
The girl you were, what did you want?
She didn’t doubt it: she would be a Zoom ballet dancer! And I would turn off the TV during commercials and dance in front of my parents and siblings.
She wanted to be seen, I see.
“Who wants to read the reading?” asked the nuns. And I always raised my hand. And I was fainting.
Why was he fainting?
I wanted to read, but walking to the lectern I was afraid I would do it wrong… and I would pass out.
And today, what?
Every morning, as I go to the set, I ask myself: “Why am I doing this job?”.
And… why did he become a journalist?
At school we put on a play and one of the characters was a journalist. “How nice that word sounds”, I said. “Explain to others what’s going on… I’ll do that!”.
And did you study Journalism?
Yes, and at the same time I collaborated on Ràdio Vilassar de Dalt: I was 17 years old. Since then I have worked, always pedaling, can you see?
Then it adds up… 40 years! of microphones
At the age of 21 I worked on Dit i fet (TV3), I played music at the matinees of Ser… and in 1990 I premiered Parlar por parlar, then Hablar por hablar, until 1997.
Many people still remember it.
“I made my career listening to you!”, a vice-president of the Government has confessed to me… And so many people.
Everyone listened and many called.
Homosexuals, assaulted women… It was a necessary program. I’ve learned everything about life on the radio… or almost everything.
And they offered him La Ventana.
I accepted And minutes before her debut, at the Ser studios in Madrid… she was crying with fear in a toilet, locked all by herself.
And what did you do then?
pedal! As always. I left, I came to the microphone in tears. And I started Lady Di had died, we changed the whole program. It was September 1997.
And you were at the head of La Ventana for many years… How many were there?
Until 2012: fifteen years in a row!
What happened to him in those fifteen years?
Everything: I got married, my nephew died, Ernest Lluch was murdered, my brother died, I lost and regained my voice twice, my two children were born… Everything!
I remember that of Ernest Lluch… it was terrible: did you read that manifesto…
“I am sure that Ernest Lluch would have tried to dialogue even with the one who killed him. You, who can, dialogue”.
And lightning and thunder fell upon him.
A call from Enric Lluch, Ernest’s older brother, gave me a lot of peace: “I would have spoken to the person who killed him in the deep conviction that I would have convinced him not to kill him”, he told me on the phone .
What makes you most proud of your fifteen years at La Ventana?
Having given a voice to prisoners in prisons. And the children, too. And the mentally ill. And philosophers, fathers of the Constitution, artists… Very brilliant people, never restricting their freedom of speech.
The capitostos of the Ser dismissed her.
They, who must know a lot about radio, would think that without me the Ser chain would improve.
They must have asked him to come back.
Yes. But I’m not going back, I answered them.
Did you argue your refusal?
“How do you want me to leave Café d’ideas, where I’m enjoying it so much?”. On Ràdio 4 from 2019 and from 2020 it can also be seen on TVE Catalunya’s La 2.
Being a woman, do you think it has benefited or harmed you at work?
My feminine sensibility, putting myself in the other person’s shoes, is a strength for a good journalist… even if some interpret it as a weakness.
What would you never do to scratch a little more audience?
To lie. Or hurt to puta. Or do something that I would be ashamed to see or hear.
