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Fiat 500 Fan

From: monika mueller
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Default-piece-image-0 Alessandra Renzi's best travel companion is a Fiat 500 from 1968. When Alessandra moved from Naples, Italy to Berlin to study, she couldn't resist and brought her Fiat "Cinquecento". It's more than just a car to her. The 36 year old vehicle has no heater, a little sunroof and gets a lot of stares in the German Capital. This piece documents a short ride in Alessandras Fiat 500 through the streets of Berlin. It's talk, music and car sounds. This piece hasn't been broadcasted yet.

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Piece Description

Alessandra Renzi's best travel companion is a Fiat 500 from 1968. When Alessandra moved from Naples, Italy to Berlin to study, she couldn't resist and brought her Fiat "Cinquecento". It's more than just a car to her. The 36 year old vehicle has no heater, a little sunroof and gets a lot of stares in the German Capital. This piece documents a short ride in Alessandras Fiat 500 through the streets of Berlin. It's talk, music and car sounds. This piece hasn't been broadcasted yet.

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Review of Fiat 500 Fan

This is a wonderfully good-natured piece about a woman and her car. Listening to it, I realize how few happy pieces hit the air -- pieces that aren't carrying the boulder of a message on their small miserable backs. Would be a lovely little drop-in during the news shows -- ME, ATC, WESAT or WESUN, though a pic of the Fiat 500 would be nice for a web site.

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Like another reviewer, I found that I just didn't understand what the car looked like - why it was supposed to cause a reaction in those that saw it. So I did a Google Image searh, saw what a Fiat 500 looks like and ~instantly~ understood.

Seems like a nice "weekend" piece - but will require an intro that describes the Fiat 500 to those unfamiliar iwth it.

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Cute use of music. But I have to say ... You know how sometimes someone tells you a story, and they're laughing while they tell it, and then they notice that you're looking at them with a quizzical look and they say "Well I guess you had to be there"? That's how I felt listening to this piece. The reporter obviously thought there was something magical or interesting or unusual about this old car. But as I listener, I feel that she doesn't do enough to "show" me the car. We have to take her word for it that this car is in-some-way unusual or interesting or magical. I'm not saying the piece needs to be narrated. Maybe if she has some tape of someone explaining better what's so unusual about this car. It's an old car. And ... ? For some reason it reminds people in Berlin of "being on holiday." Why? There seems to be the start of a delightful piece here. But as it stands I find it very confusing.

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