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Antología argentina [Repetición]

December 23, 2025·46 min·3 clips

Alejandra moves into a Buenos Aires apartment she later finds is splattered with blood from a recent murder.

The frame is retrospective. Radio Ambulante returns to some of its first stories, made more than a decade earlier, before the show had the time and structure it later found. The narrator is plain about the change. These older pieces are smaller, but they still have the show's early taste for surprising, human, local stories from the region. Argentina holds the anthology together. One story starts with a visit to Elio, who leaves his home and shed open while he goes to mass. The workshop does the remembering. Inside are inventions, artifacts, iron scraps, wood, pulleys, tools with and without rust, and the rough motor behind much of what the brothers built. Curiosity is the family thread. When Elio returns, he says looking closely is what pushed him toward invention in the first place. His childhood was spare. The town was small, quiet, thinly populated, and close to fields where agriculture and livestock shaped the day. There was no electricity at home. Water came from a well, newspapers showed up only now and then from Cordoba's capital, and school carried most of the outside world to him. Then the planes arrived. At seven or eight, Elio watched crop dusters from the grass and got stuck on the idea of making an airplane. Flying was almost beside the point. He wanted to build the thing, watch it lift, and pull his older brother into the same unlikely project. The episode stays modest, which is part of its charm. It finds ambition in a shed, a rural childhood, and the slow work of turning scarcity into design.

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Early Radio Ambulante stories from Argentina find their charge in local memory, handmade inventions, and stubborn private dreams.

Radio Ambulante returns to some of its earliest Argentina stories, and the pleasure is in how small, local details open into whole lives. There is a Buenos Aires apartment search, but the strongest pull comes from Elio Sanpelungue's workshop: iron, wood, pulleys, tools, a…

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