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Rating: 1969, AM, RAI, Call Rome 3131…
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“In the summer of 1986, when the broadcaster (Radio Radicale, NDR) was at risk of permanent closure due to lack of funding, its switchboards recorded thousands of calls which, broadcast without filters, gave rise to the Radio Parolaccia initiative, a space where listeners could express their opinions on various topics: aspects of Italy emerged that were until then unknown to all media. The famous non-stop broadcast was interrupted after a month by order of the judiciary. On August 14, Deputy Prosecutor Pietro Saviotti signed a decree to seize the answering machines because the listeners were allegedly committing crimes such as contempt of institutions and apology of fascism during the calls. After two months, «Parliament was pushed to intervene to save the broadcaster, extending to the radios public funding to party publishing, forcing Radio Radicale to become a party organ (until then it wasn't) to survive, instead of assigning a contribution to the radio for the public service performed». The free call initiative was replicated in 1991 and 1993, when the answering service was reactivated again to avoid a possible closure.” Source: Wikipedia
Thanks to heated and more or less recent debates on DeBaser, I dug out this 10x14 from MILLELIRE - Stampa Alternativa, a testimony of the “Open Microphones” (or rather OPEN ANSWERING MACHINES) of Radio Radicale from October 28 to December 8, 1993. The author Jill Anaeli, or rather the assembler of some of the messages left on the radio's answering machine (each accompanied by an ad-hoc title by her) cites as the fundamental reason for this collection the unbearable allure of emptiness, which in reality is not such; it is the daily frustration towards the little that is truly feared and generates anger to be expressed and vented through Radio Parolaccia, in those years one of the few means available to people for varied expression, contrary to today's excesses of possibilities to voluntarily or involuntarily let anyone know everything and the opposite of everything.
In the booklet in question, the topics spat out or not are understandable because they have always been the same, with fervent regard for subjects of the time (Poggiolini, Fini, Bossi, Boncompagni…); among the various titles that accompany each intervention, I randomly cite a few: Transfer Campaign, Ferrero Rocher?, Enfant Prodige, No Bail, The Replicant, Four Quarters, Backdraft…
The last title – DOXA – is an account of the insults present on a total of about 430,000 calls from October 28 to December 8, 1993.
Regarding the pamphlet in question, given the delirium present, I cite only two among the most moderate, appropriately and linguistically deconstructed (aka Supercazzolati) in addition to the psychic deconstructivism at the origin of part of the messages themselves…
“To tell the truth, I didn't call to say all the same things that I don't know how many days everyone else has been saying. The strange radio makes a bit of noise. But I didn't understand, one thing is writing your own reply, another is saying a lot of nonsense. Bye Paolo, I moa you.”
“Hello, hello, listen. Just one thing. I don't find the insults between southerners and northerners fair. Just one thing to the commuters: damn terrapins! We taught you to be, you ugly muddy-landers! Tresanivi tardibas!”
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Prior to this, in 1986, the first round of messages led to the immediate printing of Pronto? – L’Italia censored the calls to Radio Radicale, Arnoldo Mondadori publisher, which at that time cost 12,000 lire instead of 1,000. Here, for each message, there's no title but one can identify more or less the age and origin of the caller.
Once upon a time, people vented on Radio Radicale, but in general, everything was kept in check thanks to the targeted use of information. Today, due to the internet and social media, the scheme has been disrupted: yesterday, it was difficult to be traced from a message on an answering machine; today, with the internet, one can easily get into any legal trouble.
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2006, FM, Radio24, LA ZANZARA…
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