Cartolina 3, 12 & 30 December 2014

3 & 12 December: Francesco Melillo is an Italian musician, musicologist and historian. He plays guitar in a band called “Aut in Vertigo”, and their first CD has just been published. Francesco talks about their songs, and their attitude to music and to life in general. We’ll also learn what the name of the band stands for…

30 December: New Year’s resolutions. Who makes them? Who keeps them? We talk with some Kiwi and Italian friends, and play their favourite songs.

Vi Auguriamo un Buon Natale 
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un Felice Anno Nuovo

Cartolina 5 & 19 November 2014

5 November: Italy in Antarctica. We talk with Head of Expedition Giuseppe De Rossi and Vilma Melchiori of the Antactic Technical Unit. They explain what is to be expected from this campaign, and how they personally relate to its demands.

19 November: traveling and studying in Italy. Maria Fresia takes her students to explore a part of Italy every year. This time it was the Veneto, that is, not just Venice!

Cartolina 8 & 22 October 2014

8 October: The Italian Film Festival opens in Christchurch on 16 October at the Hollywood Cinema in Sumner. Festival Director Tony Lambert presents the films included this year: as rich and varied selection as ever.

22 October: HE the Italian Ambassador, Carmelo Barbarello, talks to Cartolina producers. Mr Barbarello, recently posted to New Zealand, is in Christchurch for the opening of the Antarctic season.

As usual all programmes are available via internet live or in podcast from http://plainsfm.org.nz

Cartolina producers Wilma Laryn and Denis Walker wish you all: Buon ascolto!

And don’t forget to listen to Made in Italy, the new all-in-Italian radio programme, produced in Italy and made available world-wide,  that Dante Alighieri of Christchurch has brought to Plains fm 96.9, every Wednesday at 7.15 to 7.30 pm. A variety of guests talk about fashion, technology, design, the arts, cuisine, science and tourism … in fact everything interesting about Italy. Made in Italy is produced in Italy, for Italians living overseas, and for the people who speak Italian all over the world. So be part of a community and a network of friendship… Italian style… Every Wednesday, at 7.15pm. You can listen to the programme live from http://plainsfm.org.nz

For more information and pod casts visit www.madeinitalyr

Cartolina 10 September 2013

Cartolina radio 10 September at 7.30 pm, Plains fm 96.9: Primavera ai Castelli. Cartolina co-producer Denis Walker suggests spring itineraries in the Castelli, the hill towns around Roma. 

He describes also Civita di Bagnoregio and Dante’s tomb in Ravenna. To stay with the spring theme, we play Primavera by Marina Rei and Maledetta primavera by Loretta Goggi.

And don't forget: at 7.15 there's "Made in Italy" every week, always on Plains fm96.9. Buon ascolto!

Cartolina 27 August 2013

27 August: Made in Italy is a new all-in-Italian radio programme, produced in Italy and made available world-wide, that Dante Society and Plains FM 96.9 have brought to you, every Wednesday at 7.15 to 7.30 pm. We meet the team of Italian journalists behind the programme: who they are, how this idea was borne, how they find all the interviewees from the wide range of fields that they cover. Made in Italy is produced in Italy, for Italians living overseas, and for the people who speak Italian all over the world. 

For more information visit www.madeinitalyradio.it

Cartolina 13 August 2014

13 August: Pier Paolo Pasolini is the subject of a multi media exhibition that Cartolina co-producer Denis Walker has visited in Roma. We talk about Pasolini’s activity as a poet, a film director, and a communist philosopher. We play “Supplica a mia madre” and “Canto popolare”, as recorded by Pasolini himself, and we play “A Pa’”, the song dedicated to him by Francesco De Gregori.

Cartolina 2, 16 & 30 July 2014

2 July: Maestro Francesco Pasqualetti is the Italian Conductor for the coming season of La Boheme, and Sharolyn Kimmorley is the Chorus Director. They talk about preparing an opera and about this production. La Boheme is at the CBS Arena on July 15, 16 and 18.

7 July: Maestro Francesco Pasqualetti is the Italian Conductor for the coming season of La Boheme. He talks about his career and about this production.

16 and 21 July: Italian Postcards: Cartolina co-producer Denis Walker, just returned from his Italian winter break, tells about staying in San Lorenzo in Roma, visiting exhibitions, and his discoveries underground.

from the exhibition Terraemota by Ricardo Monachez

30 July: Gianfranco Ugazzi, Secretary General of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in New Zealand, tells about the activities of the ICCNZ, an active link between the business worlds of both Countries.

As usual all programmes are available via internet live or in podcast from http://plainsfm.org.nz

Cartolina producers Wilma Laryn and Denis Walker wish you all: Buon ascolto!

Cartolina 4 & 18 June 2013

4 June: an unsolved murder in a small village of the Italian Alps, and its chronicler. Giulia Depentor, now established in Auck-land, tells the story and her involvement in writing about it. We play a seasonal Autunno, from Vivaldi’s Quattro Stagioni ..

18 June: why study the Italian language? Ivana Bilkova and Lucy Grey are two students from the Christchurch Dante classes. Both have strong feelings about Italy: it’s the places, it’s the language? We listen to their views and their favourite Italian songs. For information on the Dante classes, check www.dante.org.nz/chch

Cartolina 7 & 21 May 2014

Cartolina 7 May and 21 May: Nidi d’Arac is a music group from Salento, the south most part of Apulia. They present century-old folk songs, based on the tradition of the “tarantate”, women bitten by the tarantula, in a modern, almost acoustic style. Their haunting, hypnotic rhythms are unforgettable. The group featured in the last Womad festival.  

Cartolina 9 & 23 April 2013

Cartolina in April:

9 April: we talk with Carolina Izzo and Lucia Dori. Carolina, the head of the restoration project of the beautiful painted dome of the Isaac Theatre Royal, updates us on the current stage of the works, and why the canvas are in a boat yard in Sumner at the moment. Lucia is a renowned restorer from Florence, here to work on the same project. She’s left behind a Botticelli’s tondo, her latest work in Italy.

23 April: Pat Unger, the biographer of New Zealand painter Bill Sutton (who’s worked extensively in Italy), is updating her book for a new edition. She’s come across the name of a goof friend of Sutton’s in Italy, a Dr Padovan from Venice, and wondered if he was still alive. The search for information about Padovan has involved people on both sides of the Equator; this is the story.

Cartolina 26 March 2013 :La cucina sotto l'arco

26 March: the cooking school in the donkey stables are the latest expansion of Gayle Hopkins’ offerings in the Abruzzi village of Vittorito (1000 inhabitants). It’s called La cucina sotto l’arco. Info on  www.viasanrocco34.com

Cartolina 12 March 2014

Christine Evans Millar spent her extended holiday in Italy, based in Bologna (photo from her terrace). She tells us how city life has more nouances than the postcards show.

Cartolina 12 & 26 March 2014

12 March: we talk with Christine Evans Miller, who spent her extended holiday in Italy, based in Bologna. City life has more nouances than the postcards show.

26 March: the cooking school in the donkey stables are the latest expansion of Gayle Hopkins’ offerings in the Abruzzi village of Vittorito (1000 inhabitants).It’s called La cucina sotto l’arco. Info on www.viasanrocco34.com

Cartolina 26 February 2014

Cartolina radio programme 26 February on Plains fm 96.9: 

Estate a Rimini!

We play:

Freak (Samuele Bersani), 

Vento d'estate (Max Gazze`),

 L'ultimo bacio (Carmen Consoli), 

Pryntyl (Vinicio Capossela).

Ricette: piadina romagnola, con squacquerone e sangiovese.

Cartolina 12 February 2014

12 February: The flavour of Summer!

We play
Sapore di sale (Gino Paoli),
La mia estate con te (Fred Buongusto),
Azzurro (Adriano Celentano),
Scandalo al sole.

Ricetta: polpette di melanzane.

Cartolina 29 January 2013

29 January: Tintarella! We play Sei diventata nera (Los Marcellos Ferial), Abbronzatissima (Vianello), Cannella, (Antoine), Tintarella di luna (Mina). Ricette: granita di caffe`, gelato di riso.

Cartolina 15 January 2014

15 January: Summer’s dancing! We play: Stessa spiaggia, stesso mare (Mina), Una rotonda sul mare (Fred Buongusto), Bandiera gialla (Gianni Pettenati), Legata a un granello di sabbia (Nico Fidenco). Ricette: bruschetta, panzanella.