The girls: previews, guests and stories of the episode of 20 April 2024 on Rai 3
Le Ragazze, the program hosted by Francesca Fialdini, returns to prime time on Rai 3. New stories are told by women of different generations who retrace the most significant stages of their existence. In the background, there is the history of our country, from the 1940s to today. Each era comes to life through the precious repertoire of the Teche Rai and a soundtrack built specifically for each decade. Below are the previews of today's episode, April 20, 2024.
Previews and stories
As usual, the episode will be opened by the doyen, a girl from the 1950s: Mira Micozzi, born in 1937. Mira, born in the heart of Rome, near the Pantheon, lost her father at the age of 7, the partisan Emidio Micozzi: he is a of the 335 martyrs of the Fosse Ardeatine, the Nazi massacre of 24 March 1944. After the war, her mother Bianca, left without any resources, relies on the initiative of the Trains of Happiness and sends Mira and her brother Dante to Carpi, in the province of Modena, where thousands of children in serious difficulty are cared for and fed by the peasant families of the Po Valley. When she returns to Rome, she Mira decides to leave school and rolls up her sleeves to find work just to bring home some money: from the shop assistant to the petrol station attendant, finally becoming a hairdresser. Mira learns, grows and becomes a strong and self-confident woman, capable of carrying on her family and raising her children even after the end of her marriage. 80 years after the Fosse Ardeatine massacre, this March 24th once again brought flowers to the grave of his father Emidio.
Then it will be the turn of two Girls of the 80s.
Poet, writer, journalist, Maria Grazia Calandrone, finalist for the 2023 Strega Prize, is today one of the most important figures in poetry and fiction of our time. Maria Grazia is the daughter of adultery: her parents, Lucia and Giuseppe, are clandestine lovers from a small town in Molise when there is still no divorce and abandoning the marital home is a crime. The couple flees first to Milan and then to Rome where they implement the plan to abandon the eight-month-old girl in Villa Borghese and drown herself in the waters of the Tiber. Maria Grazia will be found by a passer-by and following a solidarity competition she will be adopted by Giacomo Calandrone, a communist leader, and his wife Consolazione. Intertwined with Maria Grazia Calandrone's story is the story of Paola Dee, stage name of Paola Di Francescantonio, born in Foggia, daughter of a USL employee and a French teacher. After a turbulent childhood due to the conflicting relationship of her parents, who separated when she was only 12 years old, Paola found refuge in TV and Raffaella Carrà's shows. After high school she moved to Rome to study Psychology and in recent years at the “Mario Mieli” homosexual culture club she found herself, despite herself, working as a DJ.
Thus began the era of the Killing Cow, the Roman gay nightlife evenings of which Paola is the undisputed queen. Two Girls of the 70s follow. Teresa De Sio was born in Naples, her family moved very early to Cava de 'Tirreni where she spent her childhood, here she began studying classical dance at the San Carlo branch of Naples. She is a curious, indomitable woman, thirsty for life, she leaves classical dance and starts studying acting in a company in Salerno. In '76 comes the meeting that changes her life: one evening, while she is having dinner at the restaurant, Eugenio Bennato hears her singing with her friends and wants her in her group, and from there she begins his singing career. She boasts extraordinary collaborations, including those with Brian Eno and Fabrizio De Andrè and her successes such as “Voglia 'e turnà”, “Aumm aumm” and “Pianoforte e voci” become immortal. Her story is intertwined with that of Maria Luisa Franchi, an LIS interpreter, the Italian sign language. Bilingual since her birth due to her father's deafness, she actually grows up in a “signing” family.
This living between two cultures, or rather between two worlds, leads Maria Luisa to delve into sign language with dedication and stubbornness. She was the interpreter who inaugurated the birth of Tg1 LIS on 6 June 1994, she translated speeches by Pope John Paul II, the former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and at the Chamber of Deputies, receiving various awards and recognitions. In this episode Francesca Fialdini will also meet the writer and playwright Stefano Massini.
Streaming and TV
Where to watch the program The Girls live on TV and live streaming? The program will be broadcast starting from 9.45pm tonight – 20 April 2024 – on Rai 3. To see it, therefore, just tune in to the third channel of your digital terrestrial. Alternatively, if you are a Sky customer you can go to button 103 on your remote control. But The Girls is also available in streaming. As? On the platform RaiPlay, present for both computers and iOS and Android devices. RaiPlay is completely free: to use it, simply log in via email or social network. Then go to the drop-down menu and select Rai 3.
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