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In Santo Stefano di Sessanio, a small Abruzzo town in the province of L’Aquila, struck by the earthquake of 2009, to try to get back on its feet, the community tries to apply the tourist tactic of the widespread hotel of the entrepreneur Luca. When a Turin promotional company sends a young inspector to the country to review the widespread hotel model, the latter expresses a negative opinion. Annoyed by the bad review, Luca personally goes to Piedmont to ask for explanations. Here he meets Isa charged with proofreading before publication, and complains to her about what happened. The girl decides to go and find out in person and she leaves for Abruzzo, where she will help Luca to raise the village economically and morally. It is ‘Provided it ends well – Little secrets, big lies’, the film directed by Fabrizio Costa with Giuseppe Zeno and Chiara Francini, which Rai1 broadcasts tomorrow at 21. 25.
Great Britain, the protagonists and events that have marked its history since the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, are at the center of the third appointment with Paolo Mieli and ‘La Grande Storia’ broadcast tomorrow at 21. 20 on Rai 3. We start from the present with Elizabeth II, the longest-lived queen in history who has recently celebrated seventy years of reign on the throne of England: from youth to the accession to the throne, from family scandals to the long pandemic and the death of her husband Philip of Edinburgh, which they tried hard the sovereign. She then goes back in time to tell the story of the Windsor dynasty: from Queen Victoria, to the scandal of Edward VIII’s abdication to George VI, the shy and stammering king. Finally, the triumph and fall of the great British Empire, between Africa, the East, Australia and especially India, the jewel of the Crown.
It was the 1982 when Abba broke up, yet still today their music is everywhere. Rai Cultura dedicates the episode of the series “Rock Legends” to the famous Swedish quartet – broadcast tomorrow at 23. 00 on Rai5 – which recalls the band with interviews, anecdotes and music videos. Like it or not, Abba’s songs have an immediacy and clarity that make them the non plus ultra of pop pervasiveness. And they legitimately make authors the most famous non-Anglo-Saxon band in history even in the US and the UK. The story of these four Swedish musicians, Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad (ABBA), is atypical compared to that of the Anglo-Saxon pop stars. While they trod the stages of half the world and took turns in Top of the Pops, the Abba were cutting their teeth trying to conquer a window at the Eurovision Song Contest, alongside Gigliola Cinquetti and Nicola di Bari. with “Waterloo”, which defeated the weak competition and from Scandinavia brought them to the world limelight. Taken from their second, self-titled album, the song is the first example of that special mastery made of balance and bright colors, of pomposity and essentiality, which would have been the main hallmark of their style. Born as an energetic pop-rock seasoned with guitars and rock’n’roll veins, it was stripped in the making, re-studied and covered with sparkling disco cloths finely chiseled by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, main authors of the band’s songs over the course of the whole career and fundamental factotum of all the records.
On Rai Movie ‘The moment to kill’ – On Rai Storia ‘aCdC’
Rai Movie proposes tomorrow at 21. 10 ‘Time to Kill’, film from 1996 directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey. In Mississippi years’ 90, the African American Carl Lee kills those responsible for the rape of his ten-year-old daughter: two racist scions of a rich family. Attorney Jake Brigance, aided by law student Ellen Roark, begins a legal battle in Lee’s defense, in an attempt to bring clarity and justice. Meanwhile, the Ku Klux Klan does not stand by and begins to threaten anyone who tries to defend Carl Lee. Based on the novel of the same name by John Grisham, a master of the judicial genre.
Catholic France supports Protestants in the Thirty Years’ War that inflames Europe, in order to counter Spain’s growing power and of the Habsburg family. In Paris, King Louis XIII must fight against his mother, his wife and his brother: Maria de ‘Medici, Anna of Austria and Gastone d’Orleans try in every way to oust Cardinal Richelieu from power. The game is played entirely between Sunday 10 and Monday 11 November 1630: the famous ‘day of the deceived’. The clash between the Bourbons and the Habsburgs is at the center of the appointment with Professor Alessandro Barbero and “1590 – 1643. For faith and for the throne. At the origins of modern Europe “which will air tomorrow at 21. 10 on Rai Storia for “aCdC”. Following “Europe in flames”: France is directly involved in the Thirty Years War. It is fought on French soil. Anne of Austria, the consort of King Louis XIII, secretly transmits information to her brother, king of Spain and the Spanish Netherlands, but she is unmasked by the efficient information service organized by Cardinal Richelieu. The king is about to repudiate her when an event shakes the court and the whole of France; surprisingly, after several interrupted pregnancies, the queen is about to give birth to a child, the future Louis XIV, the “Sun King”.
In the majestic gardens of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna and under the direction of Andris Nelsons, the Wiener Philharmoniker are the protagonists of the “Summer Night Concert 2022”, which Rai Cultura proposes tomorrow at 21. 15 on Rai5. In the program famous pieces by Beethoven, Lysenko, Rossini, Dvorak and Johann Strauss Jr. Also starring the French cellist Gautier Capuçon, who interprets the Cello Concerto n.1 op. 33 by Camille Saint-Saëns.
The war in Ukraine on ‘Radio too’ on Rai Radio1 – On Rai3 ‘Past and Present’
The conflict in Ukraine is the opening theme of Radio Anch’io, hosted by Enrica Belli, broadcast tomorrow at 7. 30 on Rai Radio 1. Cecilia Rinaldini, Grr, Francesca Mannocchi, journalist and Giovanni Savino, professor of Eastern European History at the University of Parma, address the evolution of the situation around the Zaporizja power plant. Then politics, starting with Mario Draghi’s speech at the Rimini meeting and the reactions of the parties in the electoral campaign. We talk about it with Mario Sechi, Elisabetta Piccolotti, coordinator of the Italian Left National Secretariat, and Antonio Tajani, vice president of Forza Italia. Finally, the third part dedicated to the energy crisis, in its various aspects: on families and businesses. Which interventions are concretely possible? Celestina Dominelli, journalist of “Il Sole 24 Ore” answered; Alessandra Sassi, president of Confindustria Emilia Romagna; Davide Tabarelli, president of Nomisma Energia; Gigi De Palo, national president of the Families Forum.
In 1939, on the eve of our country’s entry into the war, the advertiser and marketing pioneer Dino Villani invents, with his friend Cesare Zavattini, the photo contest “Five thousand lire for a smile”. The contest sponsors a toothpaste, and to enter, simply submit a photo of your smiling face. In addition to the five thousand lire in government bonds, there are other gifts, such as a mink coat, a complete outfit, a gas stove, six pairs of silk stockings. A story reread by Paolo Mieli and the historic Fiamma Lussana in “Past and Present”, broadcast tomorrow at 13. 15 on Rai 3 and at 20. 30 on Rai Storia. The competition resumes immediately after the war with the new title “Miss Italy – The Italian Beauty” and takes place in Stresa, on Lake Maggiore, in the luxurious rooms of the Grand Hotel des îles Borromées. The jury includes Arrigo Benedetti, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Cesare Zavattini, the painter Carlo Carrà. In the edition of 1947 Lucia Bosè, pastry shop assistant, wins. Among the participants in the competition there are those who will become the most famous Italian actresses of the fifties and sixties such as Silvana Pampanini, Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Sofia Loren. For many girls, consumer and wealth America and Hollywood cinema represent dreams that come true. Whether they are housewives, secretaries, teachers, shop assistants or typists, beauty can open the doors to happiness and independence for them. In the Italy of the years’ 50 the Miss Italy contest ignites the public debate: the Christian Democrat Bortolo Galletto presents a bill banning beauty contests, considered immoral and scandalous spectacles. Alternative competitions are born: the Christian Democracy promotes The Ideal Woman, the Communist Party rewards the Star of Unity and Miss Vie Nuove. With the economic miracle, beauty becomes a profession around which advertising investments and business revolve, on the American model.
On Tuesdays, the Louvre Museum in Paris is closed to the public. Behind closed doors, however, it is also the busiest day. Between renovations, cleaning rooms, relocating works and checking security systems, the museum’s staff are busier than ever. The documentary “A Tuesday at the Louvre” aired tomorrow at 19. 25 on Rai5, goes to the discovery of what happens behind the scenes, meeting some restorers and conservators struggling with the number one enemy of all furniture and all works: the dust. But there are also the fire brigade team on the inspection round of the fire extinguishing systems and the office that takes care of the artists who want to copy the works on display. Outside the Louvre, the restoration of the imposing “Arc du Carrousel” is being studied, while in the Tuileries garden, a real open-air museum, some experts are involved in restoring the shine to a bronze sculpture and still others renovate the flower beds. A Tuesday like any other, for those who work at the Louvre.
