The ‘TV Italian Style’ podcast is an A-Z of the golden age of Italian television of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s from the perspective of the ever popular varietà and the famous faces who would host and guest star on these shows. It’s a bilingual podcast, in English and Italian, with conversations with experts on Italian TV and culture alongside clips from all the best shows and performances. Visit the accompanying website https://tvitalianstyle.wordpress.com/ to download translated transcriptions for each episode to support your listening.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe ‘TV Italian Style’ podcast is an A-Z of the golden age of Italian television of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s from the perspective of the ever popular varietà and the famous faces who would host and guest star on these shows.
TV Italian Style is hosted by Rachel Haworth. The show has published 26 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Z: ‘Zum zum zum’ and other theme songs of the varietà" (30 December 2024, 51 minutes), "Y: Young people and Italian variety television" (16 December 2024, 59 minutes), and "X: Xavier Cugat, Abbe Lane, Romina Power and more: international hosts and guest stars of the varietà" (2 December 2024, 54 minutes).
TV Italian Style publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 48 minutes across 26 episodes.
Booking probability for TV Italian Style is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. TV Italian Style requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. TV Italian Style's contact route on record: verified email.
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Rachel Haworth hosts TV Italian Style, an arts podcast with 26 episodes published.
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Episode #26
<p>Send us a text</p><p>Sarà capitato anche a voi<br/>di avere una musica in testa,<br/>sentire una specie di orchestra<br/>suonare suonare suonare suonare<br/>Zum zum zum zum zum,<br/>Zum zum zum zum...<br/><br/>Well...
Episode #25
<p>Send us a text</p><p>In this penultimate episode of the podcast, we're talking about young people and Italian variety television. How were young people portrayed on Italian television screens? Were there variety...
Episode #24
<p>Send us a text</p><p>Across the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, Italian television played host to a series of popular and well-loved stars that hailed from outside of Italy. On the podcast, we've already talked about how...
Episode #23
<p>Send us a text</p><p>Signore, signori, today's episode focuses on <br/><br/>'il primo ragazzo della porta accanto dello spettacolo italiano [che] irruppe con quel ciuffo un po’ malandrino, con quell’aria gioviale...
Episode #22
<p>Send us a text</p><p>In this episode, we're talking about ‘la coppia piu amata della tv’. Ten years after their deaths, the Corriere della sera newspaper ran a feature article to mark the fifty years our two stars...
Episode #21
<p>Send us a text</p><p>In this episode, we're going back to the 1950s and to a series that played an important role in establishing the nature of variety television in this period, and the expectations of Italian...
Episode #20
<p>Send us a text</p><p>In this episode, my virtual guest star is one of the four so-called founding fathers of Italian entertainment television: Enzo Tortora. He was an important star right from the start of the...
Episode #19
<p>Send us a text</p><p>In this episode, we’re celebrating a show that, in the words of television critic G in the Corriere della sera newspaper, ‘mostra uno standard superiore alla media della trasmissioni del genere’...
Episode #18
<p>Send us a text</p><p>On this episode of the podcast, I'm really pleased to be joined by researcher and historian Jessica L. Harris to talk about a really interesting aspect of Italian variety television during the...
Episode #17
<p>Send us a text</p><p>Lucia Mannucci. Virgilio Savona. Giovanni "Tata" Giacobetti. Felice Chiusano. The Quartetto Cetra, so much more than just an 'Italian jazz vocal quartet' as they're often described online. The...
Episode #16
<p>Send us a text</p><p>On 7 June 2024, the television presenter and host Pippo Baudo celebrated his 88th birthday. Here's how the Italian media marked the occasion:</p><p>Tanti auguri a Pippo Baudo, che il 7 giugno...
Episode #15
<p>Send us a text</p><p>In this episode, we're focusing on one particular star who burst onto Italian television screens in 1962 and who was introduced to television viewers by Radiocorriere in a rather particular...
Episode #14
<p>Send us a text</p><p>Raimondo Vianello and Sandra Mondaini. Raffaele Pisu. Gino Bramieri. Walter Chiari. Ave Ninchi. Paolo Panelli. Bice Valori. Aldo Fabrizi. Alighiero Noschese. Cochi e Renato. Just some of the...
Episode #13
<p>Send us a text</p><p>In this episode, we're focusing on one particular star of varietà who has been described as the queen of Saturday night variety television and as the face and voice of Italian TV. That star is...
Episode #12
<p>Send us a text</p><p>In this episode, we're focusing on one particular varietà and on its two hosts: musician and composer Lelio Luttazzi and actor Alberto Lupo. The variety series in question is Teatro 10, directed...
Episode #11
<p>Send us a text</p><p>In January 1961, the cover of television and radio listings Radiocorriere featured two stars who would during the decade become important figures for variety television in Italy, coming to...
Episode #10
<p>Send us a text</p><p>Johnny Dorelli, "il Frank Sinatra d'Italia" according to the press on the occasion of Johnny's 80th birthday in February 2017. The newspaper L'Avvenire explained: "ancor oggi il suo è l’unico...
Episode #9
<p>Send us a text</p><p>On 5 July 2021, Raffaella Carrà passed away at the age of 78 after an unspecified illness. The story was front page news, given Raffaella's status in contemporary Italy. RAI explained ‘È morta...
Episode #8
<p>Send us a text</p><p>In this episode, we're talking about dancing and the varietà, focusing in particular on the balletto, the dance troupe, but also on the hosts and guest stars who dance as part of their...
Episode #7
<p>Send us a text</p><p>In this episode, we're focusing on where it all began for the varietà televisivo and looking in particular at the series from the 1950s that helped establish the genre and its primary...
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