The Café Chronicles, my new 10-part radio comedy series starts on Monday 6 August at 10am on Resonance 104.4FM (repeated at 6:30pm) and runs every weekday until Friday 17 August.
Daniel Ruiz Tizon returns with a brand new series, presenting 10 x 5 daily missives from the South Lambeth Portuguese café he has holed himself up in since the summer of 2001. As the gentrification sweeping through Nine Elms and Vauxhall accelerates, The Café Chronicles documents the characters and community threatened by these changes.
It’s a world of tobacco, discarded chicken bones, faded denim, easily slighted personalities, exaggerated Mediterranean gesticulations and coffee, the glue that holds the old community together.
EPISODE LISTING
Monday 6 August 2018
Episode 1 – The Handshake
Priding himself on a firm traditional handshake, a turned ankle on his way to the café leads to what is easily Daniel’s worst handshake of the year.
Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.
Listen: Tune into Resonance 104.4 FM or via goo.gl/E6rhgs
Tuesday 7 August 2018
Episode 2 – Poor Butter Coverage
Daniel locks horns with a new waiter over the poor butter coverage on his Portuguese Toast.
Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.
Listen: Tune into Resonance 104.4 FM or via goo.gl/E6rhgs
Wednesday 8 August 2018
Episode 3 – The Non-Handwashing
The weekly appearance of the non-handwashing Singing Spaniard has Daniel bemoaning the reluctance among the café’s regulars to embrace handwashing after using the loos.
Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.
Listen: Tune into Resonance 104.4 FM or via goo.gl/E6rhgs
Thursday 9 August 2018
Episode 4 – The Hash Brown Ring Walk
The addition of the Hash Brown to the now all-day English breakfast, and the curious manner of its standalone delivery, over-complicates the café breakfast.
Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.
Listen: Tune into Resonance 104.4 FM or via goo.gl/E6rhgs
Friday 10 August 2018
Episode 5 – The Towel
The salmon-coloured socks of a laughs-too-easily customer leads to a troubling, long-suppressed recollection for Daniel.
Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.
Listen: Tune into Resonance 104.4 FM or via goo.gl/E6rhgs
Monday 13 August 2018
Episode 6 – Mistaken Bald Identity
The death of a bald regular revives uncomfortable memories for Daniel of the time he mistook another bald regular for the now deceased.
Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.
Listen: Tune into Resonance 104.4 FM or via goo.gl/E6rhgs
Tuesday 14 August 2018
Episode 7 – The Reward Card
Daniel looks at the difficulties the introduction of a coffee reward card in the café has caused him.
Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.
Listen: Tune into Resonance 104.4 FM or via goo.gl/E6rhgs
Wednesday 15 August 2018
Episode 8 – The Head Man of SW8
The unusually hot October evening back in 2011 when the Drunken Somalian abused the café regulars is recalled.
Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.
Listen: Tune into Resonance 104.4 FM or via goo.gl/E6rhgs
Thursday 16 August 2018
Episode 9 – The Lamp Post Pole Dancer
The sun brings out the Lamp Post Pole Dancer and the ensuing chaos leads to Daniel having trouble getting his latte.
Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.
Listen: Tune into Resonance 104.4 FM or via goo.gl/E6rhgs
Friday 17 August 2018
Episode 10 – The Nod
A ‘nod’ introduced into his prayers by an old teacher continues to cause Daniel problems, but its presence may have inadvertently led to a thawing out of the frosty relations between our host and the new waiter.
Last in the series.
Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.
Listen: Tune into Resonance 104.4 FM or via goo.gl/E6rhgs
Sunday 19 August 2018
Omnibus - All 10 episodes aired at 10am