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Bernardo Bertolucci

Tom Sutcliffe discusses Italy with Bernardo Bertolucci, Antonio Pappano, Tim Parks and Annalisa Piras.

On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe looks at the cultural history of Italy. The world renowned film director, Bernardo Bertolucci discusses his latest film Me and You. The journalist and film-maker Annalisa Piras looks back at her country's political, economic and social decline over the last two decades while the English born conductor with Italian roots, Antonio Pappano, talks about the musical soul of Italy. And Tim Parks offers a portrait of his adopted homeland - the 'charmingly irritating dystopian paradise' of Italy - as he travels the country by train.

Producer: Katy Hickman.

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43 minutes

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Mon 22 Apr 2013 21:30
大象传媒 Radio 4

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Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci is a film director and screenwriter.

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Me and You (Io e Te) is on general release.

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Annalisa Piras

Annalisa Piras is a journalist and film-maker.

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Girlfriend in a Coma is out now on DVD.

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Tim Parks

Tim Parks is an author.

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Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo is published by Harvill Secker.

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Antonio Pappano

Antonio Pappano is Music Director of The Royal Opera, Covent Garden.

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Don Carlo is on at the Royal Opera House in London from 4 May.

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Credits

Presenter Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest Antonio Pappano
Producer Katy Hickman
Series Editor Rebecca Stratford

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  • Mon 22 Apr 2013 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 4
  • Mon 22 Apr 2013 21:30
    大象传媒 Radio 4

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  • Start the Week

    Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday