Waiting for the new episode of the docufilm “L’estate ora-Jova Beach Play”, available on RaiPlay from tomorrow, two exclusive extra contents have been published: Tuesday 16, a 13 minute Bonus Track where Jovanotti’s band tells, with one privileged look and directly from the stage, the emotion, the adrenaline and the charge that is experienced at every summer appointment at the Jova Beach. The video is also an opportunity for the band to tell about the relationship with Jovanotti and what it means to share the stage with an eclectic artist like him. And from 18 August Alla Salute Live !, an exclusive duet on the Roccella Jonica stage is available: for the first time Lorenzo sang live the piece “Alla Salute” together with Shantel, the great DJ and producer with whom he recorded the piece a few months ago. And Roccella Jonica is the protagonist of the seventh episode of the Jova-Beach Play. Once again on stage with Jovanotti there will be Gianni Morandi. The two will perform in a crackling and overwhelming duet, as always happens when they are together on stage. Giovanni Cupidi will retrace the highlights of the tour giving a privileged viewer and at the same time the protagonist of the day. Giovanni is a Sicilian quadriplegic boy of great example for all those who follow him. Blogger, writer, two degrees, he is an activist and daily fights for the rights of the disabled. “L’estate ora-Jova beach Play”, tells the best moments of the stage lived between backstage, stage and audience of the singer’s mega summer tour on Italian beaches, through unprecedented points of view of the guests who accompany him in every appointment. A new episode is available every Friday, with a different narrator, for a total of 11 total episodes. To complete the series, a special in which Jovanotti himself will retrace the entire journey of the Jova Beach Party. Each episode of “Summer Now – Jova Beach Play” has a duration of approximately 15 minutes and is made available every week at close to the various stages. The publication of the series is therefore contextual to the tour: a “hot” story, immediate and strongly anchored to what is happening with many surprises and as many exciting moments to live with the Rai platform.
“At nineteen, at my expense, I enlisted an army with which I liberated the oppressed Republic from the domination of the partisans”. Thus begins the text of “Res Gestae Divi Augusti”, the work written by Octavian Augustus during his long life: his political testament, but also his propaganda weapon. Augusto, princeps of the empire, is at the center of Professor Umberto Roberto’s and Paolo Mieli’s in-depth study on “Past and Present”, broadcast tomorrow at 13. 15 on Rai 3 and at 20. 30 on Rai Storia. The young Gaius Octavius is the great-grandson of Julius Caesar and, after the brutal murder of his uncle, is designated by his will as his adopted son and main heir of his estate. He takes the name of Octavian and, after a long series of bloody political struggles, which ends with the victory in Actium against Antony and Cleopatra, he manages to put an end to the internal conflicts that have haunted Rome for over a century. Augustus himself will exalt the peace and prosperity of his government with a great monument: the ara pacis augustae.
Michael Portillo visits Sweden to retrace the historical events that led to the birth of the “Welfare State” Swedish in the years between the two world wars, in the last episode of the series “Trans Europe Express” broadcast tomorrow at 20. 15 on Rai 5. First stop, Stockholm. In the episode, Portillo then reaches the university town of Uppsala, before attending the “midsummer party”, and moves north to the Arctic Circle and the land of the midnight sun. Along the way, from train to train, he discovers the excellences of modern Sweden and savors legends and customs of the past.
On Rai Storia ‘The worlds of yesterday’ – on Rai5 ‘Bill Wyman – The Quiet One ‘Last appointment with Edoardo Camurri and “The worlds of yesterday” which tomorrow at 21. 10 on Rai Storia take their leave with an episode on the figure of the German general Erwin Rommel. Maria Teresa Giusti, professor of Contemporary History at the University of Chieti-Pescara and Paolo Pezzino, former professor of Contemporary History at the University of Pisa, talk about it in the studio, starting from some videos extracted from the documentary “Rommel: a case of conscience” by Sergio Zavoli, made in 1962. Following the exploits in the African Campaign, where he earned the epithet of “desert fox”, Rommel is the most popular and most loved soldier in Germany. At the end of 1943 Hitler appoints him Field Marshal and wants him to defend the northern coasts of France, where an invasion by the Anglo-Americans is expected. In recent months Rommel has developed the conviction that the war is now lost and tries to persuade Hitler, unsuccessfully, to find a negotiation solution with the allies. Approached by some officers who are organizing a coup against the regime, Rommel, although opposed to the idea of the attack and completely unrelated to his organization, realizes the tragedy that Germany is facing and in some way takes part in the conspiracy. But when the attack on the Führer failed in 20 July 1944 he too will be a victim of the fierce repression that followed . In fact, he is induced to suicide (simulating a natural death) but Hitler, aware of his fame and in order not to tarnish the myth that somehow would have damaged his image, reserves him the honors of a solemn state funeral. “My life was an extraordinary adventure. It seems to me that the time has come to open my archive and tell my story before moving on to a better life ”. Word of Bill Wyman, star of “The Quiet One”, broadcast tomorrow at 23. 05 on Rai 5. A documentary that is a journey through the extraordinary experiences of the former member and founder of the Rolling Stones, enriched by private videos, photos and unpublished films collected over the years by bassist of the legendary band. Meticulous to an almost pathological level, Wyman is, in fact, the historical memory of the group. “My memories are all clouded, if I want to know what I did in those years I have to ask Bill Wyman”, confesses Keih Richards, one of the “witnesses” of the documentary with Eric Clapton, Bob Geldof and the historic manager of the Stones, Andrew Loog Oldham. And distributors of the documentary, Jonathan Sehring and Lisa Schwartz, add: “Bill Wyman is a legend not only because he is one of the founding members of the Rolling Stones, but also because he has had free access to the extraordinary world of rock ‘n’ roll for many. decades. We are thrilled. “The specificity of Italy is not in the percentage or quantity of works of the universal artistic heritage present in the territory. What makes the beautiful country unique and envied in the world is that here, as the art historian Antonio says Paolucci, “the museum goes beyond its borders, multiplies, occupies every corner of the city, is in the shadow of every bell tower.” In short, it is a “widespread museum.” . 15 on Rai 5. In the episode , Professor Paolucci is in Empoli to visit a museum which, like thousands of others in Italy, represents the civil, religious and patriotic values of a community: the Museo della Collegi ata di Sant’Andrea, which houses works by important Tuscan artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries commissioned over time by the local community: from the baptismal font by Bernardo Rossellino to the Compianto di Masolino, from the reliefs by Mino da Fiesole to the Annunciation by Francesco Botticini. Artists who have contributed to delineate the identity of the city, which has survived time and war, as evidenced also by the works preserved in the church of S. Stefano degli Agostiniani. From here then Professor Paolucci leads us to the ‘sanctuary museum’, or the Cathedral of Orvieto, whose profile stands out on top of the fortress of the last city on the road that led to Rome from north and central Europe. The complex is an extraordinary collection of masterpieces: from the facade with the bas-reliefs illustrating the stories of the Old and New Testament to the Last Judgment, inside with the Chapels of the Corporal and San Brizio frescoed and decorated by artists such as Beato Angelico and Luca Signorelli.
On Rai Storia ‘Hell in the seas’ – on Rai5 ‘Art Night’ July 1944: after a lackluster operation, an American submarine commander penetrates the defenses of a Japanese convoy in the Luzon Strait. Under constant threat from the convoy’s escorts, the submarine dodges enemy fire and launches a series of attacks. And even when the torpedo tubes are empty, the helpless crew risks everything to keep fighting. “Hell in the seas” tells it on air tomorrow at 22. 10 on Rai Storia.Much of the art of the twentieth century was born from broken rules. The rules of the form, of the cultural references of the conventions. “Art Night”, broadcast tomorrow at 21. 15 on Rai 5, tells how art hides itself under the most irregular forms, starting from the documentary “Giosetta Fioroni. Pop Sentimentale ”by Sabina Fedeli with the direction of Gabriele Raimondi, based on a story by Didi Gnocchi. Giosetta Fioroni is the last exponent of the Piazza del Popolo school and the only woman in the group who was the Italian answer to Pop Art. The documentary traces her life as an artist rediscovered internationally with a series of exhibitions and meetings in Rome, Moscow, Paris, in the Venetian countryside and in Milan, where a large retrospective was held in the spring 2018 at the Museo del ‘900. Through the memories of Fioroni, interviewed in the studio and in the house in Rome, she relives a season of Italian art and culture. Giosetta tells of Mario Schifano and the other artists of Piazza del Popolo, but also of Federico Fellini and Marcel Duchamp. On her all of her the memory of the love for her partner, the writer Goffredo Parise, with whom she went through the social and ideological conflicts of those years with lightness and lucidity. The portrait of the artist is enriched by various documentary and repertoire sources and is completed with interviews with friends, artists, critics, curators who met her and shared with her affections and passions. The evening continues with the documentary by Giuseppe Sansonna, “Electric Shadows”, produced by Rai Cultura, with the scientific advice of Alessandro Masi. The protagonists are the style and art of the years’ 60 seen from two different points: Rome and London. In the foreground, the works of Franco Angeli, Tano Festa, Mario Schifano, three visionary and restless painters, linked by a strong harmony, capable of upsetting the Italian art scene of that decade. Tomorrow the last political communication spaces that precede the presentation of the electoral lists will be broadcast. The first appointment of the day is with the Round Table, at 15. 05 on Rai 3 and in rerun at 23. 05 on Radio 1. Guests of the broadcast will be Senator Emanuele Dessì (United for the Constitution – CAL – Alternative), the Honorable Alessandro Cattaneo (Forza Italia ), the Honorable Raffaella Paita (Italia Viva), Senator Pasquale Pepe (Lega). For interviews with representatives of political forces present in Parliament, at 23. 20 on Rai 3 and in rerun on Radio 1 at 23. 40, will be attended by: the Honorable Giorgio Mulè (Forza Italia), the honorable Walter Verini (Democratic Party), the honorable Michele Gubitosa (Movimento 5 Stelle); the mayor of Novara, Alessandro Canelli (Lega). The broadcasts are translated into the Italian sign language.
