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.