The five podcasts (plus one) not to be missed in November 2022

Podiocast is the meeting of the sheet with new podcasts looking for listeners. We point out – without formalizing ourselves too much on the dates of publication – the most interesting Italian podcasts coming out or available online recently. In short, the freshest and most interesting ones that we would put on the “podium” this month. Have a good listening.

Climb

Where to listen to it: on the Corriere website and app (for subscribers only)

by Mauro Corona – Solferino and Corriere della Sera

You don’t have to be passionate about rock, even if – of course – a little love for the mountains is needed. Because Mauro Corona he is such an over the top character – rough but affable, empathetic – that this podcast will also appeal to sea wolves. Well, let’s not exaggerate. But at least it can also excite those who prefer to spend their Sundays on the sofa. Because you can also sit on your back to enjoy the adventures of a lifetime. A life made, since childhood, “of rocks, challenges and love”, as per the subtitle. And if the hour and a half (in six episodes) is not enough, there is the book published by Solferino.

“It is in the human being the idea of ​​climbing, of mounting something”, says the writer and mountaineer. “The new routes, the new itineraries, are not so much the itinerary or the path, but a place where human beings have never put their hands. But do you realize? When I see a peak … but it is not a ‘ arrogance, when I see a top I have a childlike desire to sit on it “. After the memories of his poor and happy childhood, without shoes but with a lot of freedom, in “Climbing” he recounts the seventies, when he is one of the most frequent visitors of the New Morning, which in that period changed the way of experiencing climbing in Italy: goodbye to the old school “rhetoric and nationalist”, here is “the enthusiasm to have fun and no longer to suffer”. Then Corona participates in two historical expeditions: one in Greenlandwhere he loses his way and risks his life, and one in California, together with Manolo (Maurizio Zanolla), exceptional climber and friend, in an atmosphere of student spirit and discovery (and some clashes with the rangers). Because “The challenge is not with the mountains”, he says, “it is with fear”.

Today, anyone who tries the peaks among which Mauro has spent all his life can do so thanks to the hundreds of routes that he has opened, to the nails he has driven. Thanks to his passion, his hands and his story. This story.

From 21 October

Megalopolis – Mumbai 2050

Where to listen to it: on Spotify

By Pablo Trincia

There is an Indian myth that speaks of the first man on Earth and a flood that is about to wipe out all creation. Only thanks to the arrival of a fish is the catastrophe averted. Only thanks to his advice, man manages to survive. In 2050, Mumbai finds itself in the same condition again. The city risks being submerged by the sea, who will save it this time?

The theme of the climate change it can be expressed in many ways, many of which are rhetorical and obvious. Not in the case of this new project of Pablo Trincia, which had already rejuvenated the world of Italian audio with “Veleno”. This new “experiment” is something that has never been done before, the author told Wired. Excessive? Maybe, but for sure “Megalopolis” is “the attempt to go inside the city recreating its sounds, the noise of traffic, honking, and telling people’s stories. Knowing Hindi I was made easier because I could talk to them without filters, they trusted and told me about their life in a more familiar way “. What this podcast is is not easy to say in one word. It is a product that straddles several categories: reportage, the dystopian tale, the travel diary. Trincia brings “the microphones out of the studio”, also thanks to the skilful work of Michele Boreggi, who is an exceptional sound engineer (or should I say sound designer?), one who left for New Orleans a while ago to make a sound report and who eventually came back with a jewel like “Shotgun Boogie” (get it back!). With Trincia he had already collaborated on “Il finger di Dio”, for which he did the sound design (in fact), he composed the theme song and some music.

In ten episodes, Trincia shuttles between the present and the future of Mumbai, leading us to the end of a 2049 “based on really imagined facts”. In fact, 2050 is the year in which scientists predicted the complete flooding of the southern part of the megalopolis. And in this reportage that is not, in this plausible science fiction grafted with topicality, a European traveler wanders in a market in search of a man. A person who had confessed to him a secret about Mumbai, about the catastrophe that would have made it sink. But there is not only darkness, no imaginative stuff à “The army of the 12 monkeys”. There are slums and floods but there are also food and weddings, there is the beating heart of India. What is Megalopolis? I don’t know! An experiment. Succeeded.

We are the young people

Where to hear it: on all major platforms

by Giulia Cavaliere – Chora

The “young” have always existed, but it is only at the end of the nineteenth century that they find their own form of identity as a social object. But who invented this generational category? Since when does he have a say? And how has it evolved over the several decades to completely revolutionize customs and society? With this podcast the journalist and music critic Giulia Cavaliere undertakes a journey that from the end of the 1950s reaches today. “In Italy – Cavaliere tells us – it is difficult to free oneself from the family, youth lengthens, loses its boundaries and therefore its definition, its specific grain”. So who are the young people? A discourse on young people in Italy has never been set up – continues the author – there is a lot about the movement of the seventies, there is a lot of fiction, a lot of art, yet there is no overall reasoning, which is also popular and fun, as this podcast wants to be, but which is investigative“In these five episodes the challenge is then to put in order a history that spans five decadesfrom Boom to Gen Z. “I wanted there to be emblematic figures, protagonists of their decade“, explains Cavaliere. Together with characters such as the legendary one Caterina Casellisinger and icon of an era, the writer and journalist Giorgio Boatti, the dj and king of the 80’s hyper-pop culture Claudio Cecchettoto the writer Enrico Brizzi, to the anthropologist, historian and popularizer Giulia Paganelli and to Lucia Abbinante, director of the National Youth Agency, we will then discover who these “blessed young people” are. We will discover that between those of the sixties and those of today there is perhaps more affinity than with generations, who are united by a desire not to be submissive. AND – small spoiler – that there is a rebirth of youth.

From 3 November, one episode a week

The Caporetto of the others

Where to hear it: on all major platforms

by Guido Damini and Viola Afrifa – One Podcast

For those who are left out of new episodes of Barbero. It’s not quite the same league, but serves to quench the thirst for Storito. He tells it with the the right pop touch and with abundant irreverence the “bar historian” Guido Damini, born in Cremona in 1995, who since 2021 has edited the “Guido in history” column on Radio Deejay. With a lively rhythm and a pleasant noisy base, Damini overturns the canon of great victories in a merciless roundup of the “best” defeats of the past. If the Caporetto route is undoubtedly the Italian defeat par excellence, proudly exported all over the world like Parmigiano Reggiano and films about the mafia, for the love of justice Damini goes through one by one the most famous defeats that other countries rightly keep in the closet … The battle of Crecy (France), the route of Lepanto (Turkey), the massacre of Midway (Japan), the defeat of Legnano (Germany), but also the disaster of Tanga (England), the friendly fire of Karansebes (Austria ) and other sensational defeats.

From 19 October

Distress – Rescue at sea

Where to hear it: on Storytel

by Valerio Nicolosi

Distress means distress, or danger. At sea, the word is the synthesis of both: an imminent danger to a vessel far beyond normal carrying capacity. A distress is communicated with a May Day message, the utmost urgency for intervention and help, but international laws are not always valid. Especially for those who are considered illegal. We all know what is happening a few nautical miles from our borders. Yet, there is a moment when people decide to board one of the ships of what is called “the civilian fleet” and make available what they can do. In the case of the Roman reporter Valerio Nicolosi the day was July 18, 2018. “I had just woken up – he says – and I saw the photo of Josepha, a Cameroonian woman rescued the previous day by the Spanish NGO Open Arms: the photo shows her still in the water, in a confused state and with fear in her eyes. That look seemed to me to be talking to me: what are you doing to stop this? So I decided to embark, and exactly 3 days later, on July 21, I was in Mallorca, where Josepha disembarked and from where the Open Arms would leave again, and I with her. “Nicolosi talks about the migratory routes since 2014. In this new podcast takes listeners aboard Open Arms’ Astral ship, where he spent two weeks in early August carrying out ten rescues and saving the lives of more than 200 people. Some of these interventions have been recorded live and inserted in the podcast, to act as a necessary complement to the story of what the author has seen and experienced.

From 10 October

BONUS

The Festival of Optimism 2022

Where to hear it: on all platforms

by Il Foglio and Storielibere

Couldn’t you come to Florence for the Optimism Festival? No problem: Il Foglio and Storielibere bring optimism to your home. Here you can listen to all the interventions of the leafy day at the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio. A day of debates and insights at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, with the protagonists of the Italian political and cultural scene and the journalists of the Foglio.

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• Enrico Cicchetti

• Born in the lands of Virgil in a sultry September 1987, he seeks refreshment in those of Aeneas. Al Foglio since 2016. On Twitter he is @e_cicchetti