From Domenico Rea to Pino Daniele: Run Radio's Cultural Podcast Series

From Domenico Rea to Pino Daniele. Run Radio, the web radio of the Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples, in the year it is about to celebrate its first 15 years of existence, launches a series of cultural insights in podcast format on its website. The novelty started with an in-depth analysis on 'Domenico Rea and the Youth', a work curated by Daniela Cardone and Daniela Rocca with the collaboration of Andrea Ianniello and Francesca Maria Mele, on the occasion of a prestigious conference hosted by Suor Orsola with the scientific direction of Paola Villani, Silvia Zoppi, and Emanuela Bufacchi. A reflection that has projected attention on the actuality of the Neapolitan writer and in particular on his writings for middle and high school students. Now online at www.runradio.it is a comprehensive 'Special Pino Daniele' with a four-episode podcast work dedicated to an analysis from various angles of the musical universe that Pino Daniele has left us as a gift and also and above all to the cultural value of his lyrics and his messages. The work, conceived by Alfredo d'Agnese, Gino Aveta, and Lino Vairetti, who also took care of the production and sound, with the collaboration of Paolo Maja and Christian Mocerino, indeed starts from the themes of a conference that nine years ago at Suor Orsola, a year after the songwriter's death, had initiated a path of studies on Pino Daniele as a 'cultural asset'. Studies dedicated to the analysis of his works as a musical asset not only of Naples but of an entire nation. In these last weeks, the Run Radio editorial team has dissected this theme in four podcasts with a long series of guests who tell about the music-cultural asset of Pino Daniele from different perspectives: the journalists Andrea Silenzi, deputy head of Entertainment at La Repubblica, Federico Vacalebre, head of Entertainment and music critic at Il Mattino and Carmine Aymone music critic at Corriere del Mezzogiorno and author of a biography on the musician; the musicologist Pasquale Scialò, a great expert in the history of the Neapolitan song; the record producer and artistic director Stefano Senardi; the journalist and music producer Claudio Poggi; the singer-songwriter Joe Barbieri, who at the beginning of his career was produced by Pino Daniele, and finally the television author, journalist, and writer Franco Schipani. The opening and closing theme of each episode is an authentic gem, the so far unpublished demo of Daniele 'Ce stà chi ce penza'. Each episode will contain some of the most beautiful melodies composed by the musician and author. In the coming days, completely renewed in sounds and content, Run Radio will also inaugurate a new series of live streaming productions, then always available on demand at www.runradio.it. 'In the year of the centenary of Italian public radio and our first 15 years of life - highlights the director of RUN Radio Alfredo D'Agnese - we have increased our foundational vocation of service radio, megaphone for the city of Naples and not only of the third mission of the University (the social and cultural promotion of the territory) which at Suor Orsola is particularly developed'. In this sense, among the podcast projects already in the pipeline at RUN Radio stand out the eight episodes of the podcast dedicated to the 50 years of the Festival Be In of Naples and an in-depth analysis of the third edition of the Italian Comedy Fest directed by Gianfranco Terrin which sees the students of the Master in Cinema and Television as members of the newly formed Young Jury. Run Radio, founded in 2009 on the initiative of the Rector of Suor Orsola, Lucio d'Alessandro, is located inside the Communication Tower of the Neapolitan University and together with the degree courses in the field of communication sciences and numerous Masters (from the Master in Cinema and Television to the Master in Radio) is an integral part of the largest academic hub in the South of Italy in the field of communication.