The Italian Radio Hour

The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! In this episode, we will travel thru the sounds of the centennial violin making tradition of the city of Cremona through Maestro Stefano Trabucchi who will illustrate elements that contribute to reaching the "perfect sound" in a...

The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! On this week's episode: GOT BEER? Did you know that Italy is one of the top producers of....CRAFT BEER? Join the conversation with Kevin Raub as we talk about some of the latest trends in craft beers production and some of his fa...

The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! This week on THE ITALIAN RADIO HOUR:  Have you ever baked bread?  Have you ever baked bread like the Romans did?  Tune in for an interesting conversation with experimental archeologist Farrell Monaco as we talk abo...

The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! This week on The Italian Radio Hour: A Tribute to Italian POW Aldo Arrighi and Italian American identity during WWII.  Join us for a very special episode of with our two guests: Andrea Franzoni, a young man from Italy who wi...

The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! In the second segment, we will continue our journey into the Fashion industry, by talking to Prof. Salvatore Giardina, from the Fashion Institute of Technology who recently returned from a Study Abroad program in Italy where FIT...

The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! In this episode: The HOUSE OF GUCCI -  In Conversation with the author, Sara Gay Forden. Sara was living in Milan and reporting already on the fashion industry from a business perspective when Maurizio Gucci was assassinated...

The Italian Radio Hour brings the best of Italy very Thrusday. In each episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu!  This week, we talked to Italian food and travel expert Sophie Minchilli about her book, the Sweetness of Doing Nothing, and how we can incorporate the beloved Italian philosophy of Dolce Far Niente into our own lives, no matte...

The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! Pittsburgh Steeler legend Franco Harris. Franco was born in Fort Dix, NJ, the son of an American soldier from Mississippi stationed in Italy during WW2 and an Italian mother from Pisa, and graduated from Penn State with a degree...

The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! Meet Anna Harsh, the Artistic Director and Founder of Allegro Dance Company, and author of "La Danza, Conflict, Passion, and Healing". Anna has channeled her love for her Italian heritage through dance. Starting with a college th...

The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! In this episode,  we spoke with Director Michela Smith and Sandi Grasso about Michela's latest projects is “Heirloom'', a short documentary about her mother Sandi and her own quest to discover why Italian Americans still lov...

The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! In this episode: we will be discussing the importance of the family vegetable garden in the Italian tradition. Instead of our usual two-guest format, we will be talking to four individuals about their personal experiences of main...

The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! Pierette Domenica Simpson, a native of Pranzalito, near Torino, is a survivor of the shipwreck of the Andrea Doria, the Italian luxury liner that sank on July 25, 1956 when it was struck by the Swedish liner Stockholm. Pierette i...

The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! In this episode, we interview Cristina Bowerman.  Cristina is the chef of Glass Hostaria in the Trastevere neighborhood in Rome and the only female chef in Rome who has been awarded a Michelin star. In the second part of our...

The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! Tonight, we will explore the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia and specifically Trieste with travel writer Michael Paul, a regular contributor to Dream of Italy TV Show & Travel Magazine with Kathy McCabe, and also the creator...

The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! “Out of Rushmore’s Shadow" with Lou Del Bianco, grandson of Luigi Del Bianco, the true chisel-genius from Friuli behind the carving of Mount Rushmore.  How is it possible that for decades there had been absolutely no recogni...

The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! Tonight on The Italian Radio Hour: A comparison between the Italian Immigration on the West Coast and the East Coast. Join me for an insightful conversation with Marianna Gatto, Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Italian Am...

The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! This week on The Italian Radio Hour Show: Director Tommaso Santi and writer Silvia Gambi, on “STRACCI” - a compelling documentary on the recycling of used clothes that starts from the Prato textile district (In Tuscany) and goes...

The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! Goethe once said" See Naples and die".  But American born Katherine Wilson saw Naples and started to live. Katherine is fresh out of college when she arrives in Naples to intern at the US Consulate. There she meets handsome,...

The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! Second segment: Have you ever wondered why there is a "Cookie Table" in all weddings in Western Pennsylvania? Join our conversation with Laura Magone, Founder of The Wedding Cookie Table Community as we discovered the origin of t...

The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! This week on The Italian Radio Hour:  How Pasta and Poetry joint efforts to build a better future!  Join me as we’ll hear from Rina Poletti, the Queen of Tagliatelle, and Antonella Iaschi, author of “Fiabe per un Noi” a...

The Italian Radio Hour airs every Thursday at 5:00pm (EST) on 620AM and streams online at: https://www.radio.net/s/wkhb Every episode will have interviews (in Italian and in English) with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! This week: Sicilian American Folk singer Michela Musolino shares how Sicilian Folk music captivated her from a very young age and became her life pas...

The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! This week on The Italian Radio Hour: IN MEMORIAM of Giovanni Falcone, Anti-Mafia Magistrate killed in a car bombing on May 23rd, 1992 in Capaci (Sicily), recounted by one of the Founding Members of Addio Pizzo,  Dario Riccob...

The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! Can you claim to have met Luciano Pavarotti in person? Maybe at a concert or maybe you were lucky enough to get his autograph.  In this episode, we will talk to someone (Samuele Bozzolla) who can claim to have shared the tab...

The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! This Thursday on The Italian Radio Hour: What if one day a relative tells you: - What are you going to do about the story?” - What story? - Your grandfather..THE MOB! Join us for a conversation with NYT best-selling author, Russe...

The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu! This THURSDAY on The Italian Radio Hour, our second guest (Minute: 31): Alessandra Rellini tells us all about Agricola Farm in Vermont, Monti Verdi Salumeria and their beautiful communal dinner experience.