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Program about historical dissemination, presented by Paolo Mieli. Each episode sees a historian interacting with the presenter and three young university students.
Episode 144 : 1848 and the Roman Republic
May. 25,2018
Episode 143 : 1918: the Explosion of a Factory
May. 24,2018
Episode 142 : The 1992 Mafia Bombings
May. 23,2018
Episode 141 : 194: the Law of Discord
May. 22,2018
Episode 140 : Nero, Emperor of Rome
May. 21,2018
Episode 139 : Propaganda During the Great War
May. 18,2018
Episode 138 : Guglielmo Giannini, the Ordinary Man
May. 17,2018
Episode 137 : The Church of John Paul II
May. 16,2018
Episode 136 : Giovanni Giolitti: the Statesman
May. 15,2018
Episode 135 : Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits
May. 14,2018
Episode 134 : Law 180: the Basaglia Revolution
May. 11,2018
Episode 133 : Pearl Harbour, 1941: Attack to America
May. 10,2018
Episode 132 : Killing of Aldo Moro: the Day After
May. 09,2018
Episode 131 : Prague Spring and Dubcek's Socialism
May. 08,2018
Episode 130 : The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
May. 07,2018
Episode 129 : Karl Marx: Revolutionary Thinking
May. 04,2018
Episode 128 : France's May 68
May. 03,2018
Episode 127 : 1938: Hitler in Italy
May. 02,2018
Episode 126 : 1968 in Milan
May. 01,2018
Episode 125 : Charles Albert, the Reformer Sovereign
April. 30,2018
Episode 124 : The Battle of Stalingrad
April. 27,2018
Episode 123 : The Chernobyl Catastrophe
April. 26,2018
Episode 122 : The Scouts and the Resistance
April. 25,2018
Episode 121 : The 1938 Football World Championship
April. 24,2018
Episode 120 : Southern Italy and the Italian Unitary State
April. 23,2018
Episode 119 : The Red Scare
April. 20,2018
Episode 118 : Pope Benedict XVI
April. 19,2018
Episode 117 : Radios of Free Italy
April. 18,2018
Episode 116 : Louis XIV, the Sun King
April. 17,2018
Episode 115 : Roberto Ruffilli, Killed by Red Brigades
April. 16,2018
Episode 114 : The 1948 Italian General Elections
April. 13,2018
Episode 113 : The Attempted Murder of Togliatti
April. 12,2018
Episode 112 : Workers between 1968 and the "Hot Autumn"
April. 11,2018
Episode 111 : Luigi Giussani, Servant of God
April. 10,2018
Episode 110 : Orazio Antinori and Colonial Exploration
April. 06,2018
Episode 109 : The 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis
April. 05,2018
Episode 108 : Martin Luther King
April. 04,2018
Episode 107 : 1968 in the Eastern Bloc
April. 03,2018
Episode 106 : The Spring Festivals
April. 02,2018
Episode 105 : The Holy Sepulchre
March. 30,2018
Episode 104 : The Orthodox Church
March. 29,2018
Episode 103 : Lenin and the Defeat of Socialism in Italy
March. 22,2018
Episode 102 : The Trial of Giordano Bruno
March. 21,2018
Episode 101 : The Balfour Declaration: the Origins of Israel
March. 20,2018
Episode 100 : The Five Days of Milan
March. 19,2018
Episode 99 : Aldo Moro: the Negotiation
March. 16,2018
Episode 98 : Housing in Italy's 1960s
March. 15,2018
Episode 97 : Pope Paul VI
March. 14,2018
Episode 96 : Edward and Wallis, a Forbidden Love
March. 13,2018
Episode 95 : 1527: the Sack of Rome
March. 12,2018
Episode 94 : Anita Garibaldi, Heroine of the Italian Risorgimento
March. 09,2018
Episode 93 : Carla Lonzi and Feminism
March. 08,2018
Episode 92 : Cinecittà, Hollywood on the Tiber River
March. 07,2018
Episode 91 : Gino Bartali, the National Righteous
March. 06,2018
Episode 90 : Silvio Pellico and His Imprisonment
March. 05,2018
Episode 89 : D'Annunzio, the Aesthete of Politics
March. 02,2018
Episode 88 : 1968: the Battle of Valle Giulia
March. 01,2018
Episode 87 : The America of Jazz: From New Orleans to the World
February. 28,2018
Episode 86 : Saddam Hussein
February. 27,2018
Episode 85 : The Ruse of the Trojan Horse
February. 26,2018
Episode 84 : Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady
February. 22,2018
Episode 83 : The London Blitz
February. 21,2018
Episode 82 : The Merlin Act
February. 20,2018
Episode 81 : Masaniello and the Revolt of Naples
February. 19,2018
Episode 80 : Giacomo Lercaro, the Deposed Cardinal
February. 16,2018
Episode 79 : Sadat, New Egypt's Rais
February. 15,2018
Episode 78 : Nenni and Mussolini
February. 14,2018
Episode 77 : Diderot, Raynal and the Slave Trade
February. 13,2018
Episode 76 : Piave River Was Murmuring
February. 12,2018
Episode 75 : The Julian-Dalmatian Tragedy: From Massacres to Exodus
February. 09,2018
Episode 74 : Churchill and His King
February. 08,2018
Episode 73 : Edda Ciano, the Duce's Daughter
February. 07,2018
Episode 72 : Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles
February. 06,2018
Episode 71 : The Montesi Affair, a Political Scandal
February. 02,2018
Episode 70 : Alba de Céspedes, the Voice of Clorinda
February. 01,2018
Episode 69 : Stasi, GDR's Secret Eye
January. 31,2018
Episode 68 : Gandhi, the Great Soul
January. 30,2018
Episode 67 : The Battle of Actium
January. 29,2018
Episode 66 : Eichmann, the Extermination Accountant
January. 26,2018
Episode 65 : Jews Escaping From Nazism
January. 25,2018
Episode 64 : 1938: the Italian Racial Laws
January. 24,2018
Episode 63 : Paul VI and the Rebel Priests of 1968
January. 23,2018
Episode 62 : Arduin, King of Italy
January. 22,2018
Episode 61 : Rosie and the American Women at War
January. 19,2018
Episode 60 : The Battle of El Alamein
January. 18,2018
Episode 59 : The Night of the Long Knives
January. 17,2018
Episode 58 : Emperor Hadrian
January. 16,2018
Episode 57 : The 1968 Belice Earthquake
January. 15,2018
Episode 56 : Qin Shi Huang, First Emperor of China
January. 12,2018
Episode 55 : The Conquest of the West
January. 11,2018
Episode 54 : Italo Balbo, an Inconvenient Fascist
January. 10,2018
Episode 53 : Italian Constitution: the Togliatti Case
January. 09,2018
Episode 52 : Garibaldi and The Thousand
January. 08,2018
Episode 51 : Tunisia: Roots of the Uprising
December. 22,2017
Episode 50 : Dino Grandi, the Man Who Defeated Mussolini
December. 21,2017
Episode 49 : When Lenin Sang with Mussolini
December. 20,2017
Episode 48 : James of England and the Gunpowder Plot
December. 19,2017
Episode 47 : The Emigrants and Marcinelle
December. 18,2017
Episode dedicated to Italian emigration to Belgium: from the agreement of June 23, 1946 (with which Italy and Belgium agree on the transfer of 50,000 Italian miners in Belgium, in exchange for 2,500 tons of coal every 1,000 miners) to the disaster of Marcinelle (August 8, 1956) in which 262 people died.
Episode 46 : The Women of Italy's Constituent Assembly
December. 15,2017
Episode dedicated to the 21 women elected to Italy's 1946 Constituent Assembly, four of whom elected in the so-called "Commission of the 75", charged with writing the republican Constitution: formal equality between men and women is thus sanctioned, the first stage of a long journey towards de facto equality.
Episode 45 : Evita Perón
December. 14,2017
Episode dedicated to Maria Eva Ibarguren, better known as Evita Perón: illegitimate daughter of the Argentine landowner Juan Duarte, she will experience throughout her life indignation in front of diversity of treatment and injustice, becoming one of the most important figures of Argentine politics, together to her husband Juan Domingo Perón.
Episode 44 : Tambroni and the Street Demonstrations
December. 13,2017
Episode dedicated to Ferdinando Tambroni and his troubled, short-lived Government, that lasted only four months in 1960.
Episode 43 : Khomeini's Iran
December. 12,2017
Episode dedicated to the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the 1979 Islamic Revolution: from his opposition to Shah Reza Pahlavi's regime to the success of his Revolution, up to the 1980 hostage crisis and the 1980s war between his country and Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
Episode 42 : Giotto and the Discovery of Reality
December. 11,2017
Episode dedicated to Giotto, one of the most famous and revolutionary artists in the history of art, even if his biography is often incomplete: from the fragments we know of his personal history to the most important testimonies of his work, such as the frescoes in the Basilica of Assisi and the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua.
Episode 41 : Cavour's Legacy
December. 08,2017
Episode dedicated to Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, and to the lesser-known aspects of his figure: from his work behind the scenes of the Italy's Risorgimento to his death by malaria (June 6, 1861), which caused a huge void in the Italian political scene; his project continued however in the following decade, with the conquest of Veneto and Rome.
Episode 40 : Tina Anselmi, a Life For Democracy
December. 07,2017
Episode dedicated to Tina Anselmi, historical figure of Italy's Christian Democracy: from her early years as a trade unionist, through her efforts as a partisan during World War II and in her party after the war, to her appointment as Italy's first-ever female Minister in 1976.
Episode 39 : Kennedy vs Nixon
December. 05,2017
Episode dedicated to the 1960 US Presidential elections televised debates, contested between the Democratic Irish-American candidate John Fitzgerald Kennedy and the incumbent Republican Vice-president (and, to that point, likely to win) Richard Nixon: from the political differences to the novelty of the television debate, that Kennedy will be able to exploit to his full advantage.
Episode 38 : The Holy Grail
December. 04,2017
Episode dedicated to the myth of the Holy Grail, a mythical object endowed with an extraordinary power, and even capable of bestowing immortality to those who possess it: first cited in a Chrétien de Troyes 12th-century poem, the myth had a great success throughout the Middle Ages, but returned more recently to the limelight only with Richard Wagner's Parsifal.
Episode 37 : The Palazzo D'Accursio Massacre
December. 01,2017
Episode dedicated to one of the most tragic events of Italy's "red biennium" (1919-1920): the Fascist assault on Palazzo D'Accursio in Bologna on November 21, 1920, where Fascist gangs shot and bombed the crowd, killing 10 and wounding 58; the event marks the irreversible crisis of socialism in Bologna and paves the way for the so-called "black biennium (1921-1922).
Episode 36 : The Suez Canal
November. 30,2017
Episode dedicated to the Suez Canal, the pharaonic work that connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea: from its construction in the 19th century until 1956, the year in which Egyptian president Nasser decided to nationalize it; this decision is followed by the so-called "Suez crisis", which marked the definitive decline of France and the United Kingdom as World powers and the escalation of the clash between Arab countries and Israel.
Episode 35 : September 1943: an Army in Disarray
November. 29,2017
Episode dedicated to the Italian WWII armistice on September 8, 1943: from the negotiations started after Allied landing in Sicily, through Operation Alaric (the Nazi occupation of the Italian peninsula) and the provisions on how to react to the probable German retaliation after the armistice, which however were never officially given, leaving the Italian commands on their own without orders.
Episode 34 : Pope Luciani
November. 28,2017
Episode dedicated to Pope John Paul I, who ruled as a Pontiff for only 33 days, enough to enter the hearts of the faithful, above all for his very informal style and his being far from spotlight; paradoxically, however, his sudden death will attract worldwide attention.
Episode 33 : Ippolito Nievo, Between Novels and Garibaldi
November. 27,2017
Episode dedicated to Ippolito Nievo, Italian writer and patriot.
Episode 32 : Women During Italy's Economic Boom
November. 24,2017
Episode dedicated to the new role of women during Italy's "Economic Boom": the effect of economic well-being and mass consumerism on the behaviours and habits of women, but also of new means of communication (television, above all) and newborns beauty contests, which promise occasions of fame and social mobility.
Episode 31 : Gaddafi
November. 23,2017
Episode dedicated to Muammar al-Gaddafi: one of the most discussed and controversial Arab leaders in history, for 42 years in command of Libya, starting with the coup d'état of September 1, 1969 (carried out at just 27 years), and at the center of countless unworkable political designs and military conflicts.
Episode 30 : Italian Military Internees: Voices from Captivity
November. 22,2017
Episode dedicated to the "Italian Military Internees", the Italian soldiers captured by the Germans after September 8, 1943: refusing to continue fighting alongside the Nazi-fascists, they were denied the status of prisoners of war; used in the Axis war industry, abused and unable to receive help from the Red Cross, after the end of the war they were "forgotten" until 1997, when their figure was eventually rehabilitated.
Episode 29 : The Inquisition and the Cathars' heresy
November. 21,2017
Episode dedicated to the Cathars and the Inquisition, a special institution created by the Catholic Church to repress and counter the heretical movements that, from 12th century on, spread throughout Europe.
Episode 28 : Elizabeth and Philip
November. 20,2017
Episode dedicated to Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and her prince consort Philip of Edinburgh: from their marriage in 1947, for which Philip renounced the succession to the thrones of Greece and Denmark, to Elisabeth's ascent to the throne in 1952, on the background of the disintegration of the former British Empire and the new role of the United Kingdom after World War II.
Episode 27 : Ernest Hemingway
November. 17,2017
Episode dedicated to Ernest Hemingway, one of the most important writers of the 20th century, who committed suicide at the age of 62. On the front of World War I, of the Spanish Civil War (on the side of the Republicans and against the Francoists) and of World War II, his adventurous life also filters through his very successful novels.
Episode 26 : Giorgio La Pira, Politics and Utopia
November. 16,2017
Episode dedicated to Giorgio La Pira, politician of the Italian Republican Party and historic mayor of Florence: an important and original figure, who strove in the (somewhat utopian) attempt to contribute to overcoming historical conflicts through peaceful means.
Episode 25 : Nikita Khrushchev
November. 15,2017
Episode dedicated to Nikita Khrushchev, Secretary of the CPSU and successor of Stalin to the leadership of the USSR: from the denunciation of Stalinism, passing through the suppression of the Hungarian uprising of 1956, up to the Cuban missile crisis, after which it will be ousted and confined to a dacha until his death.
Episode 24 : Lyndon B. Johnson
November. 14,2017
Episode dedicated to Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States: from his first political experiences, passing through the election as senator and the vice-presidency under Kennedy, until his unexpected appointment as president, his commitment to civil rights, his management of university protests and his involvement in the Vietnam War.
Episode 23 : The Assembly Line
November. 10,2017
Episode dedicated to the assembly line, the innovation in the industrial production by Frederick Taylor, at the base of the incredible productivity growth of nowadays "consumer society", but also of the workers' protests against the alienation and the ever-increasing use of machines.
Episode 22 : Pitigrilli, Writer and Spy
November. 09,2017
Episode dedicated to Dino Segre, also known as "Pitigrilli": one of Turin's most read writers who, in 1930s, became a spy for OVRA (the Fascist regime's political police), although he himself often had problems with the regime, that considered him "immoral" and his novels "not very Italian".
Episode 21 : Dunkirk: "Operation Dynamo"
November. 08,2017
Episode dedicated to the so-called "Operation Dynamo", the gigantic evacuation operation of Anglo-French troops from Dunkirk beach in the early months of World War II.
Episode 20 : Memoirs of Deportation
November. 07,2017
Episode dedicated to the reconstruction of the deportations of Jews and other prisoners during World War II: the stages through which the memory in Italy of these events was formed, starting from the Nuremberg trial to the publication of the testimonies of the survivors, first among them Primo Levi's memoirs.
Episode 19 : Lawrence of Arabia, Prince of the Desert
November. 03,2017
Episode dedicated to Thomas Edward Lawrence, better known as "Lawrence of Arabia": history and myth of the British colonel, secret agent and principal architect of the Arab revolt against Ottoman domination (for the benefit of the British), who died in a motorcycle accident in May 1935.
Episode 18 : The Fascist Woman
November. 02,2017
Episode dedicated to women under Fascism: a status poised between dictatorship's attempt to force them to stay at home and be prolific mothers (discouraging their employment as much as possible) and the regime's drive towards a new "self-consciousness" through Fascist associationism.
Episode 17 : Stalin, the Age of Terror
November. 01,2017
Episode dedicated to Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, better known as Stalin, that went down to history as one of the bloodiest dictators of the 20th century: from his youth in the seminary, passing through his rise to power in the years following Lenin's death, his contribution in transforming the USSR into a military and industrial power, the non-aggression pact with Hitler, to the post-war years of terror and gulags.
Episode 16 : Caporetto's Refugees
October. 31,2017
Last of the three episodes dedicated to the centenary of the Battle of Caporetto (1917): an analysis of the massive and disorganized exodus of the Italian population, after the German-Austro-Hungarian occupation of almost all Veneto, and the repercussions on the new war front on the Piave river.
Episode 15 : Martin Luther, the Rebel
October. 30,2017
Episode dedicated to Martin Luther, "father" of the Protestant Reformation: from his initial studies in Germany to his growing opposition to the practice of indulgences and to the Vatican's practices of the time, culminating in the publication of the 95 theses.
Episode 14 : Charles VIII in Italy
October. 27,2017
Episode dedicated to the Charles VIII's 1495 military campaign in Italy: from the conquest of the Kingdom of Naples to the coalition of the major and minor Italian states (helped by Ferdinand II of Aragon and Maximilian I of Habsburg), created for the purpose of defeating the French king.
Episode 13 : Trotsky, the Impossible Revolution
October. 26,2017
Episode dedicated to Lev Davidovic Bronstein, better known as Trotsky: refined intellectual and theoretician of permanent revolution, father of the October Revolution, hated, fought, deported, exiled and then chased all over the world, until a hitman reaches him in Mexico.
Episode 12 : Anne Frank, a Denied Memory
October. 25,2017
Episode dedicated to the figure of Anne Frank, a young Dutch Jew who went down in history thanks to her diaries, in which she tells her life as a teenager before and during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
Episode 11 : Tucci, Duce's Explorer
October. 24,2017
Episode dedicated to the figure of Giuseppe Tucci, a scholar of the East, a great connoisseur of languages and civilizations such as Indian, Tibetan or Nepalese, but also an indomitable explorer of regions that were still largely unexplored.
Episode 10 : Caporetto: the Battle
October. 23,2017
Second of the three episodes dedicated to the centenary of the Battle of Caporetto (1917): a detailed analysis of the clash, resulted in the clamorous defeat of the Italians and in their tragic fall back to the Piave river.
Episode 9 : Discord's Final: 1976 Davis Cup in Chile
October. 20,2017
Episode dedicated to the 1976 Davis Cup final, played in Santiago between Chile and Italy: from the tight debate on whether or not to boycott the final, in protest against the newborn Pinochet regime, to the decision to participate, marked by the Italian victory and by the "protest" of Panatta and Bertolucci's double.
Episode 8 : Italian Prisoners of the Allies
October. 19,2017
Episode dedicated to the vicissitudes of Italian soldiers who were taken prisoner during World War II: the living conditions of prisoners before and after Italy's surrender, the relationship with the Badoglio Government and their difficult return home after the war.
Episode 7 : Battle Name: Lenin
October. 18,2017
Episode dedicated to Vladimir Ilic Uljanov, better known as Lenin: from his exile in Switzerland and his return home (which took place with the help of Germany), passing through the failure of the first revolutionary attempt in July 1917, until the success of the October Revolution and the first steps of what will become the Soviet Union.
Episode 6 : Caporetto: Before the Battle
October. 17,2017
First of three episodes dedicated to the centenary of the Battle of Caporetto (1917): an analysis of how Italy and Austria-Hungary approach the clash, from the internal to the military situation on the field, passing through the reconstruction of the 1917 war events.
Episode 5 : Charlemagne
October. 16,2017
Episode dedicated to Charlemagne, historical leader and first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire: from his rise to power to the relations with the Arab and Byzantine world, passing through the creation of what became the core of modern Europe.
Episode 4 : Duce and America
October. 13,2017
Episode dedicated to the relations between Fascist Italy and the United States: from the initial harmony between the American democracy and the dictatorial regime, passing through the 1936 Italo-Ethiopian War and the approach to Nazi Germany, until 1940 (the date on which Italy enters World War II alongside the Axis).
Episode 3 : The Trains of the Sun: Italy's Internal Migration in the 1950s
October. 12,2017
Episode dedicated to the phenomenon of Italy's internal migration, from Southern Italy to the North that took place during 1950s and 1960s, recounting the reasons behind and the effects this phenomenon had on Italian society.
Episode 2 : Nicolaj II, the Last Tsar
October. 11,2017
Episode dedicated to the life and death of Nicolaj II, the last Tsar of Russia: from his initial attempts at solving the needs of the people, passing through the tragic choice to join WWI, up to his arrest and execution, together with his family, by the Bolsheviks in 1917.
Episode 1 : The Defeat of the Dardanelles
October. 10,2017
Episode dedicated to the Gallipoli campaign, that took place during World War I.
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