The Italian Radio Hour

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - Three times Kickboxing World Champion, first Italian woman to win Bellator, Gloria Peritore was recently invited to to the US to talk about her her organization "The Shadow Project" - an organization that promotes gender equality in sports and fighting domestic violence on women. During the interview, Gloria shared her personal story of a toxic relationship th...

his week on The Italian Radio Hour - Virgil Cantini - a familiar face not only to the Pittsburgh arts world but also to hundreds of students, faculty, and visitors who walk day in an day out thru Posvar Hall, the Chevron Science Center or in front of Lawrence Hall. Cantini was the founder of the University's Studio Arts Department, which created 13 pieces of public art for the University, most of...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - In conversation with Stephen Riggio, former CEO of Barnes and Noble on his many accomplishments and achievements to his last successful enterprise on translating in English for the first time Luigi Natoli's Sicilian saga on the legendary sect "Beati Paoli" (title in English "Sicilian Avengers"). Emerging from the dark streets and subter...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour : GENOVA and JEANS Week (Oct 1-6th) with Anna Orlando. VIDEO INTERVIEW: https://youtu.be/xYI3hHq7Pzc This week on The Italian Radio Hour - We travel to Genoa, once nicknamed "La Superba" for being an extremely strong financial powerhouse, for the upcoming Genova Jeans Week (Oct. 1st-6th) to explore the history of Jeans thru beauty, arts, culture, innov...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour: L'ULTIMA DINASTIA - The Last Dynasty, the Saga of the Agnelli from Giovanni to John with Jennifer Clark. Maybe you’ve heard of Gianni Agnelli. You’ve most likely heard of car manufacturer Fiat. But you might not know the rest of the Agnelli family — Giovanni, Margherita, Edoardo, John — and the both inspiring and tragic stories of an industrial family dynas...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - After years of working as a social worker and psychology instructor, Suzanne Maggio walked El Camino de Santiago in Spain traveling solo. She was 60 when she did it and is a big advocate for solo travel. "There is never a right time to take a big adventure". And so she did. And she prepared for it but in ways that, along the way, she realized were to...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour : REV UP your engines! The iconic 1000 Miglia race is coming to the US! National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) and EGA, the Italian official licensee for 1000 Miglia Experience in Florida recently announced a partnership to promote and support the first-ever "1000 Miglia Experience USA Florida," a prestigious road rally for classic and exotic cars...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - All about food, food trends, pasta shapes, and Rome with this week's guests: Dan Pashman and Katie Parla .Both Dan and Katie are internationally known best selling authors, journalists, podcasters (and much more!). With their books, articles, and respective award winning podcasts have been keeping informed and educated on what's going on in the food sc...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - Emmy nominated, award-winning, husband and wife filmmakers, Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno and Jerome Bongiorno sit with us this week to talk about their the 3Rs trilogy of documentaries on urban America: Revolution '67 on the 1967 Newark riots/rebellion; The Rule, on the highly successful urban school model of Newark Abbey and Saint Benedict's Preparatory...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - The Pittsburgh Italian Scholarship Fund was established 40 years ago with the mission of assisting academically qualified local high school graduates of Italian ancestry with their college education. Additionally, they honor a local Pittsburgh professional of Italian descent who has demonstrated meritorious distinction in his or her profession. And this year’s...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - Inclusive Italy. From coffee to opera to poetry reading, the world of inclusivity in Italy. Whether you are in Bologna ordering a coffee or at La Scala Opera House in Milan, many are the spaces and initiatives in Italy that cater to the blind, deaf & mute, or people with different learning abilities and create a safe and inclusive space. Joined in conversa...

This week on the Italian Radio Hour - Do you have what it takes to become the next MasterChef? Thousands of thousands of applicants try every year to make it to prepare their best dish in front of the most "honest" chefs to earn an apron to get into the actual competition. Meet Luca Manfe, the only Italian competitor so far who has succeeded to not only enter the competition, work his wa...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - From Alejandro Monteverde, award-winning director of 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮, comes the powerful epic of Francesca Cabrini, an Italian immigrant who arrives in New York City in 1889 and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's most vul...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - Genoa is a city with a strong link to emigration: it was from here that millions of Italians left for the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australia. It also houses The MEI - National Museum of Italian Emigration, housed in the Commenda di San Giovanni di Prè, which lies onto 3 floors divided into 16 areas where it is possible to retrace many stories of Italian migr...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour : A Taste of Emilia Romagna at the NY Fancy Food Show with Francine Segan .Watch video interview: https://youtu.be/MAuypSdVDBM If you can't travel to Emilia Romagna this summer, how about visiting the upcoming Fancy Food Show in New York (June 23rd-2th, 2024). Francine Segan, one of America's foremost experts on Italian cuisine, returns to The Italian Ra...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - Kevin Glavin is a world-renowned and critically acclaimed Bass-Baritone singer, actor, and opera singer with over forty years of experience specializing in Italian Opera. Kevin has the great talent to make you laugh even while singing in a language you do not understand! His performed with notable artists such as Luciano Pavarotti and Marvin Hamlisch, and coll...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - There are interviews that go well and others that go unexpectedly amazing! How can I have hoped for more, having the full team of Growing up Italian, Sabino and Michela Curcio, Rocco Loguercio and John Viola from the Italian American Podcast all in one place at the same time, as they take in the success of the inauguration of the new RED SAUCE STUDIO in NY and...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour : Discover Pavarotti in his own home - Casa Museo Luciano Pavarotti VIDEO INTERVIEW: https://youtu.be/2oznsjToqlA Welcome to the place Pavarotti called home. He built this house to entertain friends, teach young singers and enjoy family life. In this conversation with the widow of Maestro Pavarotti, Nicoletta Mantovani, we discover his private collection of memo...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - Our guest today is art historian Laura Morelli whose work I have been following for a few years as she makes art history fun while also dividing her time and talent writing historical fiction and guides about Italy. Recently, I participated in one of her online classes via her website (https://lauramorelli.com/) about the Etruscans, and I was so fascinated by...

In this week's episode of The Italian Radio Hour: Calabria, the ancient tradition of silkworm breeding, and the story of Nido di Seta. WATCH THE INTEVIEW: https://youtu.be/2wXZjl5XHYM Did you know that silk production represented a flourishing and prosperous economy for the region of Calabria as back as Byzantine times when silkworms were introduced to the region from China by Basilian monks?...

Six Food Museums not to miss: Museum of PARMIGIANO REGGIANO Museum of PASTA Museum of TOMATO Museum of WINE Museum of FELINO SALAMI Museum of PROSCIUTTO DI PARMA Thru the expert knowledge of Giancarlo Gonizzi, we are taken on a virtual journey of Food Musuems of Parma, their history and their treasure! Parma proudly boasts some of the highest quality food products renowned at both national and int...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - Never before, have I met two volcanic, more full of life and always cheerful individuals as "forces of nature" like Luca Paiardi, – architect, musician and Danilo Ragona – planner, designer and founder and president of the company Able to Enjoy. Praticamente, due forze della natura! Explorers of four continents, organizers of 41 sports activities (an...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - Il Newyorkese , the new magazine written by Italians in Italian for anyone that loves, lives, and dreams in New York gives you great insights (financial, real estate, happenings) of what happens in the Big Apple. We chatted with its founder David Ippolito, who recently moved to NYC from Italy but for many years, already author of the study "AGAINST STEREO...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - Did you know that there is a library and a museum in Rome that houses some of the oldest, varied, and most unique tools and textbooks about cookery? It is the Garum Library and Museum, located just across Circo Massimo and this weekend only (April 5-7th), you will also have the chance to see a very interesting collection of 400 original menus covering differen...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour : The tradition of the St. Joseph Table with Marianna Gatto , Carmela Cesare Giaramita , and Joe Di Carlo Giaramita .From the East Coast to the West Coast and many places in between, the St. Joseph Table tradition has conquered the hearts of many believers and also first-time participants. Join my conversation with Marianna Gatto, Executive Director of the Itali...