The Italian Radio Hour

By Viviana AltieriSociety & Culture

The Italian Radio Hour episodes

May 19, 2022 Michela Musolino, Sicilian American Folk Singer
The Italian Radio Hour airs every Thursday at 5:00pm (EST) on 620AM and streams online at: https://www.radio.net/s/wkhb Every episode will have interviews (in Italian and in English) with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! This week: Sicilian American Folk singer Michela Musolino shares how Sicilian Folk music captivated her from a very young age and became her life passion.
55 min
May 19, 2022 "Addiopizzo" and Sicilian Folk Music with Dario Riccobono and Michela Musolino
The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu!
This week on The Italian Radio Hour: IN MEMORIAM of Giovanni Falcone, Anti-Mafia Magistrate killed in a car bombing on May 23rd, 1992 in Capaci (Sicily), recounted by one of the Founding Members of Addio Pizzo, Dario Riccobono. As a second guest, Sicilian American Folk singer Michela Musolino will share how Sicilian Folk music captivated her from a very young age and became her life passion
55 min
May 12, 2022 The Private Life of Luciano Pavarotti told by Samuele Bozzolla
The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu!
Can you claim to have met Luciano Pavarotti in person? Maybe at a concert or maybe you were lucky enough to get his autograph. In this episode, we will talk to someone (Samuele Bozzolla) who can claim to have shared the table with "Il Maestro" more times that he can remember!
56 min
May 12, 2022 Smalltime: The Story of my family and the Mob wtih Russell Shorto
The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu!
This Thursday on The Italian Radio Hour: What if one day a relative tells you: - What are you going to do about the story?” - What story? - Your grandfather..THE MOB! Join us for a conversation with NYT best-selling author, Russell Shorto’s on his new book ‘Smalltime,’ A Story of My Family and the Mob, as we explore the social, cultural, and economic factors that led to the rise of smalltown mob intertwined with his own family dynamics.
56 min
May 05, 2022 Making Salame Italian Style with Agricola Farm & Monti Verdi Salumi
The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu!
This THURSDAY on The Italian Radio Hour, our second guest (Minute: 31): Alessandra Rellini tells us all about Agricola Farm in Vermont, Monti Verdi Salumeria and their beautiful communal dinner experience.
55 min
May 05, 2022 "Murder Italian Style" with Nadia Fugazza
The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu!
This THURSDAY on The Italian Radio Hour: Producer and Editor Nadia Fugazza, shares her podcast "Murder Italian Style" with our listeners.
55 min
April 28, 2022 Il Bel Centro with Michelle Damiani
The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu!
This week, we have a lovely chat Michelle Damiani, a clinical psychologist, author and lover of Italy, who with her husband moved their family to the town of Spello for an entire year in 2012. While in Spello, she wrote a blog about their experiences, entitled “Il Bel Centro”. Once returned to the USA, she transformed the blog into a book, which was listed by Huffington Post as one of the “Top 10 Fascinating Books about Living in a Foreign Country”. She has also written a series of four novels that take place in a fictional town of Santa Lucia, loosely based on her beloved Spello. She has also written “The Road Taken: How to Dream, Plan, and Live Your Family Adventure Abroad.
55 min
April 21, 2022 Elena Ferrante's Naples (My Brilliant Friend) with Daniela Oteri
The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu!
This THURSDAY on The Italian Radio Hour: Elena Ferrante's Naples with Danielle Oteri. Join us for another interesting conversation with writer and art historian Danielle Oteri. Danielle has worked at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for 15 years and has taught art history at Seton Hall University. She is an expert in Naples and the Cilento region in Southern Italy. With her tour company, Feast Travel, Danielle has developed a tour based on Elena Ferrante’s novels recently adapted into the HBO miniseries, “My Brilliant Friend”.
55 min
April 14, 2022 Chewing the Fat - An Oral History of Italian Foodways with Karima Moyer-Nocchi
The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu!
In this week's episode, we talked to Karina Moyer-Nocchi, food history and author of "Chewing the Fat: An Oral History of Italian Foodways - From Fascism to Dolce Vita", and "he Eternal Table – A Cultural History of Food in Rome " about the stories represented in "Chewing the Fat" and foods in Italy during fascism and the myths around "cucina povera" and the "pizza effect".
55 min
April 07, 2022 "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" with Chef Chris Fennimore
The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu!
In this week's episode, dedicated to Rome, Cookbook author and Broadcasting Celebrity Chris Fennimore tells us all about this life, when in Rome, from the Testaccio Market, to Casa Manco, to his entire family visit.
55 min