RANDOM VOICES AT RNE'S RADIO 3 SHOW 'HOY EMPIEZA TODO' (ENGLISH TRANSCRIPTION BELOW)

Ángel: It’s amazing what you can do with a good idea and an interrail global pass.

I’m gonna talk you on Random Voices, it’s a project that connects people from different countries through a collective interview in which interviewer and interviewed are anonymous characters around the world. Till here the theory. On the practise, let’s try it now talking with Pau Perramón. Pau, good morning.

Pau: Good morning, how are you?

A: Very well. As they’re anonymous, if you want I don’t call you Pau and you don’t call me Ángel and we start a kind of Random Voices.

P: Ok, perfect.

A: So, ‘Random Voices’, we can translate it as ‘Voces Aleatorias’? I know the word ‘random’ because of my mp3 player...

P: Hehe, yes, more less. As you told quite well, they are 9 people from 9 different european countries talking on their lives, cities, countries, cultures and a bit on global subjects like the global warming, women rights or terrorism. They do it through a format that let them interview each other. We call it the collective interview.

A: The collective interview... let’s listen to an exemple...

P: Let me say they’re not anonymous at all. What is true is that we don’t give importance to the surname so that it’s like they could be anybody.

A: But I can call you Pau, at least?

P: Hehe, yes, Pau yes... Of course!

A: Okey! Let’s play an exemple. A French guy who brings a question to a turkish girl.

<playing the exemple>

A: The thing is, each episode is 10 minutes. Why this lenght?

P: Yes, it’s 10 minutes because it’s a project planned for being aired on internet and the new platforms, and the idea is that someone who can download the episodes (cause you can download them for your i-pod or i-phone), the idea is that you can do a metro ride and watch a whole episode. That’s why it has that short lenght, it’s like the detective stories books, where you could obtain information reading just a very little paragraph.

A: This idea, actually, comes from a ride a bit longer, and not a metro one...

P: Exactly, yes. Both Miquel and me loves to travel. He travelled around Asia, doing great photos that I loved. And as far as I’m concerned I did a travel around Europe, visiting different countries...

A: An interrail...

P: Yes, exactly. And I met several people in this countries, and I was surprised on how this people had the same worries under different points of view. And that excited me. To put those point of view in common generated the format we worked with.

A: Let’s listen to another exemple...

<playing another exemple>

A: So what you do is that someone launches a question and the other is free to express an answer, and it’s not questions like ‘how can I get a better internet connection’ but interesting ones, maybe to try to change the planet a little bit.

P: Yes, yes... actually both questions and answers were free. We guide a bit on the type of questions. We divided on ‘personal questions’ ‘city, country, culture questions’ and ‘global questions’, but from that point they were free to ask and answer. It was funny sometimes, because after finishing an answer, as they were not used to be in front of a camera, they asked: “how has it been?”, and my answer was always “Has it been what you wanted to say?”, and if they said “yes” therefore that was what we were looking for.

A: A question could be, for instance, this think of the Greek crisis, because the German and greek politics don’t get a solution, maybe the German and Greek people would arrive to a solution to end with this issue!

P: It would be nice, because the think is a bit dodgy... In fact, it’s curious because this was shot in 2008, so two years ago, and I was affraid because I thought if I delayed the premiere the topics would expire... but no, actually the topics remain being almost the same and the worries are equal.

A: We can even find more solutions. They have the first season ready. His name is Pau, the surname doesn’t matter because he’s just another citizen trying to show questions that can be found also through the answers by the digital way, at randomvoices.org. Pau, hugs and thank you very much.

P: Thank you very much to you!