Podiocast, the five podcasts not to be missed in July 2023
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A journey through the many horrors and few delights of contemporary sex and one to discover the raw materials that move the world. The return of a protagonist of medical disclosure. And two “true crime” of high quality. The best “things to listen to” released (sort of) this month
The audience figures come out every year and the trend is the same every year: people listen, they listen a lot. In June, the numbers of the latest NielsenIQ research for Audible came out: in the last twelve months, 16 and a half million Italians (especially young people) have chosen the company of a podcast in their days. One million more than the previous year. On Spotify in February 2023 there were more than 50,000 podcasts in Italian, a fifth more than the year before.
But if the need to quantify is mostly the prerogative of the platforms, whose rankings are momentary snapshots useful almost only for the vanity of the authors, what we are trying to do here is to propose a reasoned list of what good has come out in the last month. Without presumption of completeness or “breaking” anxieties. A ranking of the best “things to listen to” released (more or less) this month, to give you a useful compass to navigate the vast ocean of the Italian podcast. Let’s go…
It’s just sex
By Valeria Montebello for Chora
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“Can I see you again tonight? / But don’t think badly now / Again the usual sex“. How the world has changed since 2008, dear Max Gazzè! Far from “usual sex”. Fifteen years ago we certainly didn’t talk about microcheating, orbiting. And we didn’t use many peach and aubergine emojis… Today, between social and dating apps, too gender has changed. It is told, very told. It’s done a little less, alas. And it passes more from the screen of a smartphone than from the bedroom. Valeria Montebello had already eviscerated him, in his adorable monstrosities, with The gender of others. An investigation born when one of his articles on sex for a newspaper had gone viral and since that day. suddenly, she found herself immersed in millions of requests, confessions and wishes: people wrote them on all social networks to get answers and advice. She evidently hasn’t had enough, and now she’s diving back into the depths and horrors of contemporary sex.
This new podcast is an excellent example of how good conductors are not only conductors, but become confidants, advisers and maybe even a bit of a guru. Thus this new product is also based on the testimonies and stories of the community born from the previous podcast, and gives us back the portrait of a desolate land, full of irony and pitfalls: the sex life of today’s women and men. Because sharing the drama is the only way to remind us that, after all, It’s just sex.
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Matteo Liuzzi for Storielibere, narrated by Carlo Lucarelli
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His parents wanted him to be a musician while he hid his weapons in his violin case. It’s a story in evening dress, one of those that could go well next to the books of Arsene Lupin. Only our gentleman thief is made of flesh and bone and a mustache. We are in a Milan that fades into legend more than in the fog. A Milan where you work a lot and have a lot of fun. And where it still roams the latest Mala Romantica, who struggles between taverns, restaurants and railing houses, extricating himself between the theft of chickens and spectacular master strokes. Where a slightly mad person can come up with that brilliant intuition of hiding the machine gun in the case. Or trying to steal the Miss Italy crown. Or to attempt an absurd coup, together with the “Marsigliesi” gang, in the supervised and very central via Montenapoleone. The story of Luciano Lutring is that of post-war crime, and also that of a miraculous country, where the Boom promises to make all dreams come true. And where even crime (which pays, yes) still has a code of honour.
Already so, with this human material and with the pen of Matteo Liuzzi (Methanol, The unicorn, Seveso…), there would be enough material to break the bank, but Storielibere catches Carlo Lucarelli as narrator: goal into an empty net. Not bad either the band, or perhaps better to say the drums, that they put togetherstuff from Ocean’s Eleven: from the very theatrical Andrea Villani, the last biographer of Lutring, to the “historical memory” Nicola Erba, who as editor of Milieu he dealt with large and small bandits. Then there is the “witness” Giancarlo “Pelé” Peroncini, who was a thief before opening a tavern. But since every self-respecting policeman cannot miss a “Zenigata”, on the other side there is Brigadier Di Pietro, who was at Mobile in those formidable years. And finally there is the wonderful and surreal intervention of Sandro Paté, biographer of the Milanese comedians, who tells incredible episodes like the soccer matches Lutring played against Cochi and Renato.
Matter
By Simone Spetia, Sissi Bellomo, Maurizio Melis for Radio24
Where to hear it
In that couple of ounces (scarce) that we carry in our pockets every day and handle continuously there is literally the world: smartphones are made up of 40 materials, from gold to silver, via lithium, cobalt, plastic, all extracted , created, processed in different places on the planet. Smartphones, batteries, aluminum cans and even the spaghetti you are about to eat are born thanks to a global network of cultivation, extraction, storage and trade of raw materials that is worth telling. The gas told with a plate of lasagna. Wheat, the basis of civilization, from the ancient “Fertile Crescent” to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Oil, with which we build our roads and make most of the vehicles that pass over them walk. Sissi Bellomo, journalist of Il Sole 24 Ore and expert on raw materials, and Maurizio Melis, host of Radio 24 and popularizer of science and technology, accompanied by Simone Spetia, host of 24 Mattina, take us on a discovery of the raw materials that move the world .
A cure of your own
By Antonella Viola for Storielibere
Where to hear it
“With the Covid-19 pandemic we have understood that the immune system and its functioning play a leading role in our health. Taking care of one’s defenses is no longer a seasonal term linked to the flu that arrives with the first colds but a an urgent topic that we have discovered we don’t know much about. But how does our immune system work and how can we make it work better?”
We knew and esteemed her at the time of the pandemic (how far away it seems! ) for her leading role in scientific disclosure, always attentive and friendly. For her commitment, she “deserved” even the death threats (an envelope with a bullet and a few typed lines) addressed to her and her family by some no-vax offender. Today that, thanks above all to the diffusion of vaccines, the virus is under control, it’s nice to find the nice “erre moscia” of the immunologist Antonella Viola in a podcast that talks about the many tools that can help us improve our lifestyle, live longer and better. Starting with taking care of our immune system. Viola talks to us about sleep, balanced nutrition, microbiota and also gender medicine. To improve our lifestyle and get to know each other better, always seeking balance.
Cinema Eros
By Alessandra Coppola for Corriere della Sera and Chora Media
Where to hear it
Viale Monza, Milan. Where today there is an evangelical church, there was in the early eighties a red light room. The hood of the seventies is slowly dissolving, the city is looking for new forms of escape and third vision cinemas survive thanks to porn. One Saturday in May 1983, the Eros cinema caught fire. Six of them will die after days of agony. Five spectators and a passerby, who tried to save those trapped in the room surrounded by flames and smoke. But it was no accident: the fire was started with gasoline by neo-Nazi fanatics who wanted to purify the world: the Ludwig group.
For the first time the attack is reconstructed through papers of the time and the voices of witnesses. Alessandra Coppola investigates the reasons why the victims have been almost forgotten and the knots still to be resolved: the presence of a third killer in addition to the two convicted, the hypothesis of the influence of an esoteric sect, the possibility of supporters never identified. The widow of one of the victims makes her voice heard for the first time and sends a letter to ask once and for all for an answer, for true justice: “This project has made me feel less alone in the face of the drama”.
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