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Season 1

5 episodes · 2022

  1. 1Letizia Battaglia

    14 Sep 2022 · 28 min

    Photographer Letizia Battaglia, the first Italian woman to work as a photojournalist, looks back on a career spent documenting Palermo under the mafia and the ordinary city behind the violence.

  2. 2Mario Cucinella

    21 Sep 2022 · 28 min

    Architect Mario Cucinella explains how his international studio of architects and engineers puts energy and environmental questions at the centre of every project, and how a building can carry the beauty and the resources of the place it stands in.

  3. 3Michelangelo Pistoletto

    28 Sep 2022 · 29 min

    One of Italy's foremost living painters and sculptors traces the road from his beginnings in advertising, through his encounter with American pop art, to the invention of Arte Povera.

  4. 4Nicola Piovani

    05 Oct 2022 · 26 min

    The Oscar-winning composer talks about what it takes to write for the screen, how he came to work with Italy's leading directors, and how music can move an audience without ever turning cheap. Addressed in large part to younger listeners.

  5. 5Piero Lissoni

    12 Oct 2022 · 27 min

    Milan, New York, Paris: the designer's studio works across architecture, product design, graphics and visual communication, from private houses and yachts to residential schemes and large hotels.