Los Frikis

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History, Science, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 March 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

How a group of 80’s Cuban misfits found rock-and-roll and created a revolution within a revolution, going into exile without ever leaving home. In a collaboration with Radio Ambulante, reporter Luis Trelles bring us the story of punk rock’s arrival in Cuba and a small band of outsiders who sentenced themselves to death and set themselves free. Gerson Govea (Photo Credit: Josu Tueba Leiva) Produced by Tim Howard & Matt Kielty. With production help from Andy Mills. Special thanks to VIH, Eskoria, Metamorfosis and Alio Die & Mariolina Zitta for the use of their music.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening...
0:03.1	Okay.
0:04.4	All right.
0:05.6	Okay.
0:07.0	All right.
0:08.5	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:11.4	Radio Lab.
0:11.9	From W. N.Y.
0:13.9	C.
0:14.8	See?
0:15.1	Yep.
0:16.5	And NPR.
0:19.0	Hey, I'm Chad I boomrod. This is Radio Lab.
0:21.5	Robert's traveling today, so it's just me.
0:24.5	And today we have a very different kind of story than we've ever done.
0:27.9	It comes from a journalist and filmmaker named Luis Traus.
0:33.0	And an interesting thing kind of happened as we were reporting this.
0:37.0	Sounds pretty clear.
0:38.2	Yeah.
0:38.7	It's got to be a landline.
0:40.0	Luis and one of our producers, Tim Howard, had called up this guy, Vladimir Sabios,
0:45.2	who is a filmmaker himself, a Cuban guy, exile.
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