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Showing posts with label Radio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Radio. Show all posts
Saturday, 28 November 2009
Departure?
Wednesday, 29 July 2009
The reader’s imagination…
A long time ago (I still was a schoolboy) one of our teachers told us that it was better to read books than to watch movies… because a movie is just a book made into a movie by someone else, and so we just see the result of someone else’s imagination. So we should, according to him, read books as our imagination was better than other people’s imagination.I disagree with it for 2 reasons:
- it is somehow pretentious to say that our imagination is better than the imagination of great cineast like Fellini, Pasolini, Wenders, Angelopoulos, Egoyan &c
- if our imagination is better… we should stop reading books which are simply stories imagined by other people: we should write our own books that nobody else would read…
The Italian radio-TV RAI does it: it broadcast on its radio channels the “soundtrack” of the TV series shown at the same moment on their TV channels (as if we were watching TV without the image…) but it also adds to it an off-voice describing what we need to understand the story.
I often listen to the Commissario Montalbano like this: the laws of physics are strange enough to allow me to listen to RAI Radio 1 in medium waves during the evening/night, but not during the day… And it is indeed half way between reading a book and watching a movie: one has in mind Montalbano’s face, one hears his voice but one still has to imagine the action, what he and other characters of the story do. One just has to close one’s eyes and one sees the movie! No need to wonder what he looks like, what his voices sounds like &c. It just as if a friend of mine tells me what some other friend has done. And it makes Montalbano even closer to me…
Radio is really better than TV!
Friday, 24 July 2009
C'ERA UNA VOLTA IL MITO

Radio, especially public radio stations like for example ΕΡΤ, RAI or BBC, are full of treasures: this program, Alle Otto Della Sera, on Rai 2, every evening at 8, is one of them…
And thanks to internet one can listen to these programs again, even yearts after they have been broadcasted!
If you want to improve your italian and learn something about mythology, listen to this series entitled C'ERA UNA VOLTA IL MITO:
And thanks to internet one can listen to these programs again, even yearts after they have been broadcasted!
If you want to improve your italian and learn something about mythology, listen to this series entitled C'ERA UNA VOLTA IL MITO:
C'ERA UNA VOLTA IL MITO Normalmente, tale espressione viene usata per designare quel grandioso, smisurato corpus di racconti mitici che il mondo classico ci ha tramandato. Si tratta di racconti che hanno per interpreti soprattutto dei ed eroi, ma anche uomini e donne normali, le cui vicende hanno trovato modo di assumere valore eccezionale. In questa maniera sono considerati racconti 'mitici' tanto il conflitto fra Zeus e Prometeo per la spartizione delle carni del sacrificio quanto le sventure di Edipo parricida e incestuoso; tanto la scomparsa di Persefone all'Ade quanto il folle amore di Narciso per la sua propria immagine. In questo nuovo ciclo di Alle Otto della Sera, Maurizio Bettini racconta i miti classici assieme alla cultura che li ha prodotti, per illustrarli alla luce dei modelli che essi presuppongono, e per spiegare la cultura classica attraverso la forma che le è più congeniale: quella narrativa. Credits: di Maurizio Bettini, regia di Angela Zamparelli, a cura di Giancarlo Simoncelli |
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