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The staff and contributors of Radio La Colifata.
On the outskirts of Buenos Aires tucked away from the ubiquitous tango clubs and steakhouses, is Hospital Borda, the largest and oldest mental hospital in Argentina.
But this isn’t your typical psychiatric ward. In the middle of its courtyard stands a small, bustling building full of recording equipment and unbridled energy, where each Saturday patients gear up to take the mic. This is Radio La Colifata, the first radio show in the world to be broadcast out of a mental hospital.
This podcast follows Idealist staff member Celeste Hamilton Dennis, a transplanted New Yorker and Cecilia Gil Mariño, a native Argentinean, as they give us an intimate glimpse as to why everyone from taxi drivers to famous musicians can’t get enough of Radio La Colifata.
We hear from staff and patients, or colifatos as they like to be called, about how it all began, why it’s lasted almost two decades– and why this innovative form of public therapy has spawned 40 similar radio stations all over the world.
