One hundred years after the birth of radio and seventy years after the first television broadcast, Rai talks about itself with a program dedicated to the news that has marked the last century of Italian and international history.
An analysis of the transformations of radio, television and journalistic language that public TV has witnessed and led as the country's first cultural industry.
Incoronata Boccia hosts "One Hundred Years of News", broadcast for six appointments every Saturday from 16 March at 4.30 pm on Rai 3.
"It is a program that celebrates Rai's information - explains the presenter to ANSA -. I am discovering and rediscovering material which has an inestimable value and which has made the history of Rai. It is a programme, I would suggest, which deserves to be studied in schools of journalism and communication: you can see the transition from black and white to colour, the live broadcast, the rigid newscasting that gradually changes, the news that breaks out into the variety show, the arrival of female journalists in an initially almost completely male world. You can see how the country's communication has evolved, through the changes within Rai ".
Boccia talks in the studio with a different guest for each episode, accompanied by the images of the Teche Rai: the news, the faces and voices of the most famous correspondents, the investigations, the extraordinary editions and the great live broadcasts that have formed the collective imagination of the Italians.
The first episode starts from the Via Fani massacre and the kidnapping of Aldo Moro on the anniversary day, to broaden the look at the attack on the State by terrorist organizations and the mafia, from the massacres to the captures of the big bosses.
The historian and journalist Paolo Mieli will be a guest in the studio.
"The title will be 'Attack on the State' - says the journalist -. We will carry out an analysis both from a communication and historical point of view, to understand how journalism has changed the history of our country. Let's think about how the attacks on Falcone and Borsellino have stirred consciences.
After those crowded funerals, many young people decided to become magistrates. Those events changed public opinion and were a stimulus for politics."
The guest of the second episode, focused on the great events that have characterized the history of the country, will be Bruno Vespa.
"It is an analysis program that looks to the past to project itself into the future to understand how important information is in democracy - adds Boccia -. It is a bit like a contemporary history book based on audiovisual supports, which have a strength and ability to represent events superior to the written page. It is also a good way to remember the moments experienced."
Unforgettable moments from the history of television and radio will be broadcast, but also curious forgotten fragments.
"We are rediscovering videos that when they were broadcast did not seem relevant, but today they are gaining importance - explains the presenter -. We will show, for example, the episode of Pronto Raffaella from Christmas Eve 1984 in which Raffaella Carrà addresses the children by saying that we couldn't celebrate because everyone was sad about what happened. Carrà interpreted everyone's feeling of fear, he revealed the tension of an entire country, which lived glued to the radio and TV because one attack followed another. The news breaks into the program broadcast at lunchtime, dedicated to families and children".
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