Mucho Corazon

Mucho Corazon tells the story of Leon Perlee, who builds and restores antique street organs in Holland's oldest surviving street organ business, and Milades Sosa, who works at a Cuban organ factory.

2001 / Chris Brookes / Michele Ernsting / Radio Netherlands, Canada

Mucho Corazon tells the story of Leon Perlee, who builds and restores antique street organs in Holland's oldest surviving street organ business, and Milades Sosa, who works at a Cuban organ factory.

Perlee traveled to Cuba for a visit, where he and Sosa met and fell in love, and this was when the trouble began.

Mucho Corazon was produced in 1998 for This American Life.


produced by

Chris Brookes

Chris Brookes was an independent radio producer whose audio documentaries won many international awards including the Peabody Award and the Prix Italia.

Michele Ernsting

Michele Ernsting worked as a radio journalist in Canada before moving to the Netherlands to study international law at the University of Amsterdam.


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