Podcasts by Italian Culture
Italian Culture delves into Italian history, traditions and customs in order to overcome stereotypes by entrusting the narrative to local researchers. Each episode tells unheard stories, uncovers obscure facts and explores places that resonate with “Italianness”.
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About “the Genie in the Bottle” from 2019-12-30T10:00
- 1.46 Campari as an elite brand
- 3.10 The Milanese market
- 4.17 The world of the factory is the factory of the world
- 6.22 Pop & glamour
- 7.29 The dawn of ma... Listen
The Genie in the Bottle from 2019-12-27T10:00
There’s a small piece of art in almost every fridge, even in yours. It’s from the Twenties, the time when an avant-garde artist (Fortunato Depero) and an entrepreneur (Davide Campari) proved tha...
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About “When the Pope’s Corpse went on trial” from 2019-12-16T10:00
- 2.10 Ripples and bubbles: the Roman factions and a dissolving empire
- 5.03 The four margraves
- 6.22 The complexity of the papacy
- 8.48 Formosus: controversial and pious...
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When the Pope's Corpse went on trial from 2019-12-13T10:00
Here’s one question you didn’t expect to ever ask yourself: can the Pope take a dead Pope to court? The answer is yes, but be ready for another surprising turn, because the reason why the exhume...
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About “Let there be Sandwich, and there was Sandwich” from 2019-12-02T10:00
- 1.40 The secret recipe
- 2.27 Inside a Mulassano’s tramezzino
- 4.53 Mulassano before it was Mulassano
- 8.09 VIP customers: legend and truth
- 11.11 Tramezzino: a case...
Let there be Sandwich, and there was Sandwich from 2019-11-29T10:00
What if I told you that the good, old sandwich has both a birthplace and a birthdate? What if this place was Italy and the year was 1926? In this episode of Italian Culture, we discover how a hu...
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About “Forgotten Voices” from 2019-11-18T10:00
- 3.35 Opera and gender construction
- 5.36 “Tuneful scarecrows”: orchiectomy and its effects
- 6.35 Masters of the voice: the castrato training
- 9.20 Voice and femininity<...
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Forgotten Voices from 2019-11-15T10:00
A candid angel, a bratty popstar and a cunning smuggler: what have they in common? They sacrificed their testicles and gained a splendid voice. In this episode of Italian Culture, we investigate...
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About “Portrait with Devil’s Smile” from 2019-11-04T10:00
- 2.27 Who is Antonello da Messina?
- 4.45 The portrait of Unknown
- 5.47 Two smiles
- 6.44 Antonello’s eyes
- 9.18 Enrico Piraino, il Mandralisca: politician and philant...
Portrait with Devil's Smile from 2019-11-01T11:00
The painting is cursed, it portrays the devil who’ll drive crazy whoever looks at him – that’s what people say. Why is his gaze so unsettling? Who is he really? No one knew, until now. In this e...
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About “the Humane Machine” from 2019-10-21T09:00
- 2.42 The (old) frontiers of electronics
- 3.50 Adriano, Roberto and the Electronics Division
- 6.58 The “rescue-team”
- 10.25 The political scenario
- 13.50 Who nee...
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The Humane Machine from 2019-10-18T09:00
The machine that wasn’t meant to be created, and yet it was: the merit goes to a small team of engineers, who disobeyed their bosses’ orders, messed with international politics and crafted somet...
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Trailer - What's Italian Culture? from 2019-09-04T09:14:43
Short and sweet, this trailer gives you a vague idea of what the actual show’s gonna be.
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