Talking Italy

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• "History should be an asset, not a burden": Arturo Galansino on the art of dialogue

  October 22, 2026 · 36 min

  Contemporary art in the cradle of the Renaissance? Everybody thought he was crazy. Arturo Galansino is the director of one of Europe's most dynamic contemporary art museums, Palazzo Strozzi, in Florence. His first exhibition with Ai Weiwei…

• “Please don’t sweat in our gym”: Scott Schuman on the art of looking effortless

  October 15, 2026 · 46 min

  The secret to Italian style? Look like you didn’t try. Scott Schuman is the photographer behind The Sartorialist. A sporty kid from Indiana, he discovered fashion flicking through GQ in a drugstore at 12, and fell for Milan through…

• “Life, for women, begins at 60”: Isabella Ducrot on a lifetime of threads

  October 15, 2026 · 29 min

  She survived the war, hid an illness for a decade and was a self-confessed spinster at 30. At 95, she’s happier than she has ever been. Isabella Ducrot was born in Naples in 1931, on a hill crowded with churches, and raised on a religion…

• "No scales, no stress": Amber Guinness on cooking by instinct

  October 15, 2026 · 48 min

  In every Italian cookbook, two small letters sit beside the salt, the flour and the olive oil: q.b. They might just be the secret to a happier life. Amber Guinness grew up in a crumbling farmhouse outside Siena, where she was bathed as a…

• Trailer | Introducing Talking Italy

  October 15, 2026 · 1 min

  Talking Italy: intimate conversations with extraordinary people whose lives have been shaped by Italy. A new podcast from Italy Segreta, hosted by Isobel Giles. From fashion photographers like Scott Schuman to artists like Isabella Ducrot…

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