Summary
America is Anita's all singing, all dancing number from the musical West Side Story. The Puerto Rican Sharks gang argue over whether America is a great place to live, an argument still being played out by migrants today. With contributions from young migrants to the US as well as an actress who has performed the song in a UK production and a Puerto Rican man who watched Rita Moreno performing the role growing up, and went on to study the musical as an academic in the United States.
Including an interview with Rita Moreno originally broadcast on BBC 100 Women in Conversation in 2023
Produced for BBC Audio Bristol by Sally Heaven
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| 0:00.0 | In 2024, we were here for the chatty ones. |
| 0:04.6 | Right, it's time to talk about this with big name podcasts. |
| 0:07.8 | Amazing. |
| 0:08.6 | Side tracked. |
| 0:09.4 | Charlie Axiax. |
| 0:10.5 | Welcome. |
| 0:11.6 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm so excited. |
| 0:13.6 | Desert Island Discs. |
| 0:14.8 | Killion, how have you found choosing your discs? |
| 0:16.8 | I showed a couple of friends the list and they said, oh, well, that's good. |
| 0:19.8 | There's no crazy obscure stuff out there. |
| 0:22.1 | And miss me. |
| 0:23.0 | I was playing the pyramid stage of Blastonbury and I was like, |
| 0:25.2 | there's no way they're going to see me walking out on that stage. |
| 0:28.4 | We're like, whatever. |
| 0:29.8 | The best of 2024 is here. |
| 0:32.1 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.8 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. My father was a drama podcast. |
| 0:40.3 | My father was a drama teacher. |
| 0:43.3 | He was also a music lover. |
| 0:46.3 | And we did grow up on the island of Puerto Rico. |
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