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Start the Week: Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci

22/04/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Bernardo Bertolucci

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

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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