The First Latin American 'Telenovela'

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Witness History: Witness Archive 2016

BBC World Service

251 episodes

9 months ago

History as told by the people who were there. All the programmes from 2016.

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The First Latin American 'Telenovela'

Witness History: Witness Archive 2016

9 minutes

8 years ago

The First Latin American 'Telenovela'

Vida Alves starred in Latin America's first soap opera, or telenovela. 'Sua Vida Me Pertence' was broadcast in Brazil in December 1951. It kick-started a TV genre that has spread across the globe and is now worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Vida speaks to Mike Lanchin about her memories of making TV history.

Photo: Vida Alves and Walter Forster in a scene from 'Sua Vida Me Pertence', Brazil 1951 (Museu Pró-TV)