Can a sociology and psychology treatise become a comedy show? The lecture by Prof. Assianoris is a tasty pretext to show a picturesque anthology of grotesque situations that explore vices and defects of the human soul, such as venality, insecurity, selfishness, pettiness. Negative human characteristics, but much more fertile than the positive ones, when you want to tell them in a humorous way. ...

Lella Costa gives voice to the poetesses of the 20th century, in a journey that meets the words of women who lived or were rediscovered in the past century and who made the History of Female Poetry, from Emily Dickinson to Amelia Rosselli from Sylvia Plath to Kate Clancy. Stories of women, civil commitment of which we grasp the urgency....

On the Altipiano, men fought who often died in vain, at the whim of an incompetent, “crazy” or cognac-drunk commander, paying with their lives the price of irresponsible political and military choices; but also men who gave their lives with courage in the belief that superior values ​​and ideals exist.Soldiers who did not give in to despair and who, in the end, many years later, were able to say that “…in war we even sang sometimes.�...

Faced with the return of illiteracy that many say afflicts Italy, the Ministry of Culture launches a campaign, entrusted to activists organized in the threatening Cultural Brigades, with the aim of raising the average level of cabaret actors. A comedian chosen at random among the most ignorant will be tortured on stage in the form of an interrogation-lesson on Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. The draw has drawn Dario Vergassola, who has distinguished ...

What is a hero? Who leads an exemplary life and what life is more exemplary than Bonatti’s? Behind Walter Bonatti there are not only the legendary mountaineering feats, nor the famous explorations conducted for Epoca, behind Bonatti there is a philosophy of life. There is the will to reach the goal without compromises, in a fair comparison with Nature. There is the humility to confront cultures different from ours. There is a great sense of j...

Centuries of repression and machismo do not disappear at the first cough. We must also have the courage to admit that the attempt at an open couple, of “democratic horns,” has not succeeded and has almost always foundered in hypocrisy. “It must be said that the open couple has its disadvantages. For it to work, it must be open on one side only: that of the male! Because if the couple is open on both sides there are drafts!” A text that de...

We started with the story of Elzéard Bouffier, “The man who planted trees” who managed to transform a desert of rocks and wind into an immense forest. This story is intertwined with those of other women and men who have dedicated their lives to the realization of a dream, even when common sense, reason and wars suggested giving up. Real characters who have left behind beautiful memories, and characters who seem just as alive and determined...

Is God a man with a beard? No. Did Atlantis really exist? Yes. Did Cristoforo Colombo discover America? No. Did the Sumerians have anything to do with aliens? Maybe. And 2012? It’s already here… Between myths, archaeological curiosities and secret symbols, in the company of Syusy, a not-by-chance tourist who for twenty years has been hunting for the enigmas that official History cannot solve, verifying things that could upset schola...