Jesús Calleja presents the new ‘Volando voy’ in Cuatro, where he shows the opportunities that cities offer
“We want to know the life of the cities because hardly anyone talks about it, not even from politics,” says presenter and adventurer Jesús Calleja (Fresno de la Vega, León, age 57), who returns to Cuatro this Wednesday with the seventh season. of ‘Volando voy’ (10.45 pm), a format that aims to counter depopulation and to justify the job and personal opportunities offered by these small municipalities which, according to the communicator, are the great forgotten ones of our country. “And now the ‘Empty Spain’ is starting to play, but I don’t see anyone offering a solution either. Those people exist, they are Spaniards, but sometimes it seems as if there is a Spain with two speeds,” laments the Leonese.
The new season of the successful Mediaset program, produced in collaboration with Zanskar Producciones, has a series of seven new episodes in which there will be more variety of landscapes, endearing protagonists and new collective missions. Space is launching a cry (“All together!”), with which they want to “unite the people of the cities to work together and achieve goals that endure over time.” “We thought it would be a good motto when the pandemic is over,” adds the presenter.
In the first episode, Calleja and his team will visit the Costa da Morte, which stretches for 200 kilometers through the north and northwest of Galicia. In this place, ‘Volando voy’ took on one of the great challenges in the history of the format, mobilizing their neighbors to raise awareness about pollution caused by plastic waste and participate in an underwater cleanup of the port of Camariñas and Ensenada da Basa, which It is part of the estuary of the city.
In addition, the format is in the Sierra del Segura (Albacete), where they will visit the city from the movie ‘Amanece que no es poco’; Sierra de las Nieves (Málaga), which is declared a National Park with the program as a witness; Pallars Jussà (Lleida), where ‘Volando voy’ will restore Spain’s oldest advertising curtain; Las Merindades (Burgos), a place whose residents will work with Calleja to restore an ancient Renaissance garden in a 13th-century monastery; and the Sierra de Gata (Cáceres), where the program will try to unite tradition and technology by setting up an electric crazy car race together with the residents of the area. Calleja will also be in El Bierzo (León), in a delivery where they will restore an ancient Roman canal over 2000 years old to turn it into a path.
“We’re going to get to a place where there’s a problem and we’re going to solve it. It’s the common thread. We want to make known the life of the cities,” explains Calleja of this vengeful format that aims to help and “make known what is happening in that little-known Spain.”
He lives in a village of eight inhabitants in the province of León where he cannot buy anything because there is no bakery or grocery store. “People in the cities eat frozen foods because there is no fresh food. This program is a loudspeaker for all those people who tell us that so many things are happening’, he emphasizes.
Because, according to the Leonese adventurer, in the cities there are opportunities but you have to “find formulas for people to go”. “In order to work, they must have a school, a good internet connection for telecommuting and a bar where decisions are made. This comparison doesn’t always happen,” Calleja added, warning of the worrying “speed” at which these small municipalities are disappearing. “In this generation, it is estimated that 40 percent of cities will disappear. If we don’t act, depopulation will be overwhelming,” he warns.
To aid in this task, Calleja himself pilots a helicopter to show off the city’s advantages and bring in compatriots to tell their story. He says he has “always” liked flying. “I got my pilot’s license at the age of 23. I paid for everything myself and even took out a mortgage on myself to pay for my flight studies ».
‘Volando voy’ is one of the formats with the best performance on Cuatro. It finished the previous season with a 7.1% share and averaged 820,000 viewers. «The audience is the sensor where it is measured whether what we say is interesting for people. If we don’t give the data, it’s over and we have to reinvent ourselves. It doesn’t obsess me, because then you have no life,” he confesses.
Source: La Verdad
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