Poltugal FM - 1981

1981:
May 13 – Pope John Paul II is shot and nearly killed by Mehmet Ali Ağca, a Turkish gunman, as he enters St. Peter's Square in Vatican City to address a general audience.

1981 in Poland:

1981: People were receiving monthly food ration cards which included, among other items, 3 kg of meat, 250 g of candy, 1 kg of flour, 30 liters of petrol. Having a card however did not guaranteed purchase of goods, often you had to stand in long queues. (food ration cards in Poland till 1989)
In mid-1981, due to economic crisis and food shortages, thousands of Poles, took part in several hunger demonstrations.

December 13 – Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland, to prevent the dismantling of the communist system by Solidarity.

Polish Playlist:
  - Perfekt - "Chcemy być sobą"

  - Jacek Kaczmarski - "Mury"
  - TSA - "Mass media"
  - Manaam - "Cykady na cykladach"
  - VOX - "Bananowy song"

  - SBB - "Memento z banalnym trubtykiem"

1981 in Portugal:
Portugal was almost melting with an heat wave.
 
Portuguese playlist:
  - Carlos Paião - Playback
  - Táxi - Chiclete
  - Xutos e Pontapés - Sémen
  - Grupo de Baile - Patchouly
  - GNR - Portugal na CEE
  - Lara Li - Telepatia

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Poltugal FM - 1980

1980 in Poland:

August 1980 - one of the few months that have left the biggest mark on the history of the People's Republic.
August 7–August 31 – Lech Wałęsa leads the first of many strikes at the Gdańsk Shipyard. (Lech Walesa - won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland)
August 31 – Victory of the strike in Gdańsk Shipyard, Poland. The Gdańsk Agreement is signed, opening a way to start the first in the communist bloc free organization (not controlled by regime) "Solidarność" in english Solidarity.

In Zakopane was held the first ever World Cup in ski jumping. Polish ski jumper Stanislaw Bobak won first place.

First Jarocin’s Festival. It was generally based in its organization and atmosphere on famous American Woodstock Festival, thus it sometimes was called the Polish Woodstock.
Anna Jantar died - 25th March 1980 in plane crash near Warsaw Airport, her last song was with predictive words: "nothing can last forever"

Polish playlist:
  - "Sto lat" (polish `happy birthday` because o birthday of mum of Martyna)
  - Maanam - "Boskie Buenos"
  - Anna Jantar: "Nic nie może wiecznie trwać"
  - Czeslaw Niemen "Dziwny jest ten świat"

1980 in Portugal:
In music, the album know as the first rock album was released, by Rui Veloso.
The prime-minister of Portugal, Sá Carneiro dies in a plane crash, that is suspected to be provoked.

Portuguese playlist:

  - "Parabéns a você"(portuguese `happy birthday` because o birthday of mum of Martyna)
  - Rui Veloso - "Chico Fininho"
  - José Cid - "Um grande, grande amor"
  - Herman José - "Canção do Bejinho"

English playlist: (We had a guest from England, Ben Morris, that entered the spirit of the program)
  - Buggles - "Video killed the radio star"
  - Pink Floyd - "Another brick in the wall"
  - Dexy's Midnight runners - "Geno"

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Poltugal FM Carnival!

Carnival playlist:

Portuguese:

  - Kaoma - "The Lambada"

  - Quim Barreiros - "Os Bichos da Fazenda"

  - Doce - "Bem Bom"

  - ZIMBRO - "Apita o Comboio"

  - Fernando Correia Marques - "Carocha do Amor"

  - Emanuel - "Pimba pimba"
  - Iran Costa - "Bicho"

Polish:
  - Kombi - "Słodkiego miłego życia"
  - Boys - "Jestes szalona"
  - Piersi - "Balkanica"
  - Ryszard Rynkowski - "Wsiąść do pociągu"
  - Jerzy Polomski - "Cala sala spiewa z nami"
  - Donatan - "My slowianie"
  - Brathanki - "Czerwone korale"

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Poltugal FM - 1978

1978 in Poland:

March 20 - Captain Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz as the first ever woman circumnavigated the globe alone on the polish yacht "Mazurek".

October 16 - Pope John Paul II succeeds Pope John Paul I as the 264th pope. The first Year of Three Popes since 1605. He is the first Polish pope in history, and the first non-Italian pope since Pope Adrian VI.

December 31 - New Year's Eve - started winter of the century, with not only a strong frost, but also extremely heavy snow.

Flight of spacecraft Soyuz 30 with Miroslaw Hermaszewski - first (and to this day remains the only) polish cosmonaut in space - on board.

Polish climber Wanda Rutkiewicz as the third woman in the world and the first European and the first Polish entered the international climbing expedition to Mount Everest.

Football World Cup 1978 Poland went to second group stage ( Portugal wasn't classified).

Polish playlist:
Maryla Rodowicz - "Remedium"
2 plus 1- "Winda do nieba"
Bajm - "Piechota do lata"
Zbigniew Holdys - "Co sie stalo z Magda K?"
Maryla Rodowicz / Janusz Laskowski - " Kolorowe jarmarki"

1978 in Portugal: 
Portugal was still in the transition period after the 74 revolution, and under assistance of IMF to leave economical crisis. The music was still influenced by the feelings of freedom and the first signs of prog-rock were appearing.

Portuguese playlist:

Sérgio Godinho - O primeiro Dia

José Cid - O Caos
Amália Rodrigues - Amendoa amarga
Paulo Alexandre - Verde Vinho
Gemini - Dai Li dou

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Volta ao Algarve!

Last sunday: a normal day of work for Nuno, but in the same place, same event that meant much more to Martyna. Tour of Algarve reached its end and it had a polish winner. Michal Kwiatkowski, beated Alberto Contador and portuguese World Champion Rui Costa after last year he finished second in this race. To add to final victory, he won two of the four stages: one in Monchique and also the time trial. Because in the last day it was predictable that he would be in the highest place of the podium, Martyna didn't want to lose the oportunity of meeting the polish champion, and she could.

She went to Vilamoura by bus to take a picture with Kwiatkowski. For most of the people, a autograph would be great, and she got it in Poland scarf because Nuno, after interviewing the winner, asked him to sign it. But the picture wasn't made, so - needed to add that somehow Martyna entered restricted area unnoticed - after the autographs and the interviews, and just before Michal Kwiatkowski entered the team bus, she could "kidnapped" him for the posterity :)

Poltugal FM - 1974

1974 in Poland:

Poland was third at the Football World Cup in Germany, beating Brazil 1:0. Goal was scored by Grzegorz Lato - leading scorer in 1974 at World Cup and the only Polish player ever to win Golden boot.

Polish playlist:
Andrzej Dąbrowski - "A ty sie bracie nie denerwuj"
Anna Jantar - "Tyle slonca w calym miescie"
Breakout - "Modlitwa"
Maryla Rodowicz - "Malgoska"
Marek Grechuta - "Dni, ktorych nie znamy"

+ Maryla Rodowicz - "Futbol" (song performed during opening ceremony of World Cup in Germany )

1974 in Portugal:  

The year of the democratic revolution, "25 de Abril". This event influenced the musical production with the wrinting of a lot of political lyrics.

Portuguese playlist:

Paulo de Carvalho - "E depois do adeus"

Green Windows - "No dia em que o Rei fez anos"

Zeca Afonso - "Venham mais cinco"

Sérgio Godinho - "Liberdade"

Fausto - "Venha cá Sr. Burguês"

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Praia do Barril by accident.

Imagine a sunny sunday after weeks of rainy and cloudy weather... First thing we thought about: leave the house, and so we did. After lunch we decided to go west, without any specific destination, only the direction was defined in our heads.
In a place like Algarve, is difficult to know all the beaches from Sagres to Vila Real de Santo António but the best places we thought that we knew... Lie...
Before arriving to Tavira, we saw a sign to "Praia do Barril". Nuno heard about it before, but never went there, neither Martyna. "Let's give it a try", we thought, and we stopped there.
First interesting thing: the access. The acess is made by a narrow floating bridge where is not possible to walk aside other person. Bridge crossed and we saw the second interesting thing: a train station with a really funny small train. We thought that in winter it would be deactivated. Wrong. It was working and transporting people through the railroads to the beach. At this point we found out that we would have a quite long walk in Ria Formosa.
After 15 minutes walking, we arrived to the beach, hundreds of meters of sand only with the ocean in the horizon. Looking at one of the maps of the place, we read that there would be somewhere a anchor cementary. We could imagine by the name what it would be, but we didn't knew what to expect. We walked a bit more on the sand and we saw what was it about. Around one hundred anchors on the sand, reminding a cementary. That place was used as a tuna fishermen shelter that now is deactivated. From those boats capturing the tuna migrating from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean sea, only these Anchors stayed.