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Under the direction of Lelio Sanchez, captain of the club’s Soccer for the Blind team and student of social communication at UNLP, “Basque Roots” will be aired every Monday from 6-7pm, on Radio Alta Voz that can also be accessed online.  Guests of the first program include: Jorge Batiz and Maria Fernanda Astigarraga, two important Basque club referents in the area.  

La Plata, Argentina.   Thanks to two young students of Social Communication who are also club members, the Basque club will begin its new radio program today, “Basque Roots.” The team is led by Lelio Sanchez who will count on the collaboration of Iñaki Agostini Zubillaga for help with the program’s direction and production.

The Basque club told EuskalKultura.com that “the priority of ‘Basque Roots’ as a club program is to share various activities that the club carries out in hopes of being able to interview or have a referent of the Basque culture present at each broadcast.  They also want to make locals aware of happenings like the “Buenos Aires Celebrates the Basque Country” festival that will take place on May 7 in the capital. During the hour-long program there will be music, news on politics, economics and sports from the Basque Country.  Fundamentally, we want to provide good company.”

“Basque Roots” will take to the airwaves for the first time this Monday from 6-7pm on Radio Alta Voz that is also available online: www.radioaltavoz.com.ar.  Directors of the program are also working on creating a Fan Page on Facebook and Twitter, social networks where they are also hoping to be able to transmit the program once aired.

Guests for the first program will be Jorge Batiz and Maria Fernanda Astigarraga.  Batiz, besides being a dantzari and director of the club dancers, who is currently a pelotari and muslari and has also served on the club’s board of directors for years.  In regards to Maria Fernanda, another super-active member of the club, who is also on the board and a referent for various areas of the club, who is also a muslari.  “Both can tell us a lot about the history of the club as well as its future,” they said.