The Italian Insider's Short Story Podcast (Ep.8). This episode looks at Stefano Benni's A Naughty Schoolboy, a short story that describes a tyrannical teacher whose classroom the protagonist cannot continue to exist in, and draws out a connection between this and what an Italian surveillance state might look like.
Voice: Jack Morgan Jones and Cesira Colleluori
Produced: Jack Morgan Jones
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The Italian Insider's Short Story Podcast (Ep.7). This episode looks at Sandra Petrignani's Women by the Pool, a short story that seems to talk a lot about the relationship we have with our own appearance, and makes us think about the reasons why someone might smoke a cigarette in beautiful Italy.
Voice: Jack Morgan Jones and Cesira Colleluori
Produced: Jack Morgan Jones
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The Italian Insider's Short Story Podcast (Ep.6). This episode looks at Susanna Tamaro's The Island of Komodo, a short story that deals with the heavy subject of childhood abuse in as light a way as can be done, and makes us think of the monsterous 'Angels and Demons' child abuse scandal in Italy.
Voice: Jack Morgan Jones and Cesira Colleluori
Produced: Jack Morgan Jones
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The Italian Insider's Short Story Podcast (Ep.5). This episode looks at Primo Levi and his short story Lilith, which contains insights into the human condition that, especially in light of recent investigative work by Alessandro Delfanti, reveals an uncomfortable truth about Amazon warehouses in Italy.
Voice: Jack Morgan Jones and Cesira Colleluori
Produced: Jack Morgan Jones
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The Italian Insider's Short Story Podcast (Ep.4). This episode looks at one of Itay's most famous authors, Italo Calvino, and his short story The Last Channel, which delves into subjective states of isolation, and looks forward to the shared state of isolation that lies ahead.
Voice: Jack Morgan Jones and Cesira Colleluori
Produced: Jack Morgan Jones
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The Italian Insider's Short Story Podcast (Ep.3). This episode looks at feminist author Dacia Maraini and her short story The Girl With The Plait which explores the mind of a pregnant fifteen year old, and speaks to the social stigma that remains in Italy today.
Voice: Jack Morgan Jones and Cesira Colleluori
Produced: Jack Morgan Jones
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The Italian Insider's Short Story Podcast (Ep.2). This episode takes a look at journalist and author Goffredo Parise and his short story Italia, in order to explore the notion of the ideal Italian family.
Voice: Jack Morgan Jones and Cesira Colleluori
Produced: Jack Morgan Jones
Music credit: outdoors - tired
The Italian Insider's Short Story Podcast (Ep.1). This episode takes a look at Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia and his short tragicomedy Il Lungo Viaggio, and what it might tell us about the migration crisis in the Mediterranean.
Voice: Jack Morgan Jones and Cesira Colleluori
Produced: Jack Morgan Jones
Music credit: outdoors - tired
ROME - The Euro-Gulf Information Centre began their historical lecture series this month with a talk on the Italian scholar of Libyan history, Leone Caetani, by Dr Benedict Koehler, which explored the dazzling insights of this
This podcast looks at the changing face of Italian Fascism, then and now, through the bizarre political legacy of Ezra Pound, the American poet who became an icon for an Italian neo-fascist party.
Voiced by Helena Leslie
Scripted and Produced by Konrad van Halewyn
