The archives of Radio Radicale

Money is also an Italian story. And it is even more so since the Bel Paese has the face of a young republic, which on coins, exchanges, currencies has been screwed on too many times in such short years. What is the most significant event in this history of coins and coins is difficult to say. Surely there is, however, that if a currency exchange occurs about every 4000 years - according to historians - it is perhaps a rare fortune to have experienced it in recent times

The transition from the lira to the euro, as well as other Italian events of money, there is trace in the archives of Radio Radicale, which were opened by the archivists of the national broadcaster, in a conference designed to tell the story of Italy and money, in a crucial step of their evolution. The path proposed by the national broadcaster was one of material collected in the political and economic debate of those years, which turned on a new currency the same questions that marked - and still mark - an inevitably Italian history

On 15 May, in Room 146, IULM Professors Stefano Rolando (Theory and techniques of public communication) and Gaia Varon (Laboratory of radio communication), Guido Mesiti, head of the sound and audiovisual archive of Radio Radicale, and Andrea Maori, archivist of Radio Radicale discussed it.