Radia Show 449: "Rosarats Barrel" by Dr Klangendum for Radio WORMin Lisbon, Portugal. Special guest: Xentos ‘Fray’ Bentos. "Radia" is a weekly show from an international network of stations interested in new and forgotten ways of making radio. Each week, one station makes a show for all the rest of the network, which includes Wave Farm's WGXC. This week: "In 1929 Jaromir Vejvoda wrote the ‘Modranska Polka’, named after Modrany, s suburb of Prague where it was played the first time. Since then the song has been played all over the world by people from all countries & languages. The english might know it under the name of ‘Beer Barrel polka’, the german version goes by the name of ‘Rosamunde’. Allthough the melody is always the same -and even the versions don’t differ so much- the lyrics go in all directions. The czech version was a very depressed one about a wasted love (skoda lasky etc.) while the anglosaxons only want to make fun and drink (see the beer barrels). In the meantime, the germans want to get under the skirts of a girl named Rosamunde while the dutch think the song is actually about soldier’s food (rats kuch en bonen)."