(ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 14 - "We understood that the country needed to be embraced, not to feel alone. With our job, showing our history, we wanted to make it clear that we will be able to get out of it and that we move forward, because this is us and let's not give up ".
Alberto Angela speaks with pride and enthusiasm, ready to return to the helm of "Ulysses - The pleasure of discovery", broadcast from 16 September on Rai1 at 9:25 pm.
Four new episodes broadcast on Wednesday and shot after the lockdown, from June to August, inevitably suffering the health emergency.
"It was not easy to deal with the emergency. This is a travel-based program, not being able to move was like keeping the ships inside the port. We did our best, we did like Ulysses", says Angelapresenting the program in Viale Mazzini, "after the lockdownawe had a great desire to do our job, but we understood that we had to keep our feet on the ground: suffering exists, it can affect us too, we must appreciate our advantages ".
Faced with a change of course imposed by the restrictions due to the coronavirus, Angela and her working group have therefore made a virtue of necessity, using different, more cinematic techniques, to package a product as always of the highest quality.
The first episode is dedicated to Rome seen from above, then it will be the turn of the tribute to Raphael for the 500th anniversary of his death, and finally two exceptional portraits, that of Queen Elizabeth II and John Fitzgerald Kennedy (the latter broadcast close to the elections Americans).
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