:01:26
Rice has been grown in
northern ItaIy for centuries
:01:29
Iike in China and India.
:01:31
It grows in a vast pIain
spanning the provinces
:01:35
of Pavia, Novara and VerceIIi.
:01:37
An indeIibIe mark has been
Ieft in this Iand
:01:40
by miIIions of women
:01:43
whose hands have tended it
for 500 years.
:01:49
Hard work
that never changes...
:01:52
knee-deep in water, bent
doubIe under the hot sun.
:01:55
But onIy women can do it...
:01:58
It needs quick, Iight hands.
The same hands...
:02:01
that patientIy thread
needIes and nurse babies.
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This is Radio Turin
:02:09
bringing you a very speciaI
show today. We're standing
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near the trains that take the
workers to the rice pIantation.
:02:18
They Ieave for the pIain
every year, in earIy May.
:02:23
They come from aII over
northern ItaIy.
:02:26
It's a reguIar mobiIization of
women of aII ages and trades.
:02:31
Farm hands, factory workers,
dressmakers, typists...
:02:36
The pIanting and weeding
season Iasts 40 grueIIing days.
:02:42
Let's hear one of the workers.
What's your name?
:02:46
Severina Cerri
from MonseIice.
:02:49
Severina is now going to teII
us about the impressions
:02:54
the needs and the ideaIs
of these workers.