It generates a curious feeling to enter the Prado when it is not yet open to the public. Silence invades the rooms, which seem even larger without tourists. Juan Ramón Lucas moves and greets as if every day the museum was opened just for him. No wonder, he spent four whole days in here a little over a month ago. He points to the room of the muses. That, exactly that, is his favorite corner of Madrid that he has just rediscovered: “It is a very inspiring place.”
The veteran journalist, who has done almost everything on radio and television, is already an established novelist and a renowned popularizer of health and the environment, and has just returned to Telemadrid two decades later to be in charge of How Madrid works, a program with an explicit name that has literally snuck into the guts of the capital. “I’m doing the same thing again,” he congratulates, “with 20 more years of professional career but the same energy and the same freedom to return to that old autonomous style of being in everything. I guess now I’m more aware of the value that “He has the power to get to the bottom of things.”
Lucas and his team have followed the thread of a call to 112, they have prepared a derby at the Wanda Metropolitano, they have accompanied the Police in an entry and search, they have traveled the suitcase highway at Barajas Airport, of course, they have penetrated in the underground “lungs” of the Prado Museum and, furthermore, they have found the answer to the big question: why is Madrid’s water so good?
Journalists write novels because we have that drive to tell things, and fiction speaks better about who we are than any chronicle.
“Radio puppeteer” above all, Juan Ramón Lucas was a founding partner of Más de Uno, on Onda Cero, along with Carlos Alsina, and later of La Brújula, which he continues to feel is his great life project and which survives in the hands of Rafa Latorre for a year and a half with the same team that his predecessor formed. Both formats are growing, now without him, and Alsina has just signed the best historical data of him in the EGM. Lucas observes it with satisfaction with one foot in his native Asturias
In the media there is a disposition towards alignment that is not positive. We should make ourselves look at why we are losing influence
