[00:00.49]'To end our special news bulletin,' said the voice of the television announcer,
[00:06.97]we're going over to the macaroni fields of Calabria.
[00:11.61]Macaroni has been grown in this area for over six hundred years.
[00:18.13]Two of the leading growers, Giuseppe Moldova and Riccardo Brabante,
[00:25.38]tell me that they have been expecting a splendid crop this year and harvesting has begun earlier than usual.
[00:34.25]Here you can see two workers who, between them, have just finished cutting three cartloads of golden brown macaroni stalks.
[00:45.68]The whole village has been working day and night gathering and threshing this year's crop before the September rains.
[00:54.95]On the right, you can see Mrs. Brabante herself. She has been helping her husband for thirty years now.
[01:04.37]Mrs. Brabante is talking to the manager of the local factory where the crop is processed.
[01:11.64]This last scene shows you what will happen at the end of the harvest: the famous Calabrian macaroni-eating competition!
[01:22.38]Signor Fratelli, the present champion, has won it every year since 1991.
[01:30.24]And that ends our special bulletin for today, Thursday, April lst.
[01:37.13]We're now going back to the studio.