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Talking Italy

Italy Segreta 4 Episodi ott 15, 2026

Talking Italy is a conversation podcast from Italy Segreta, hosted by Isobel Giles, featuring people whose lives have been shaped by Italy. Guests range from photographers and artists to astronauts, athletes, directors, actors, chefs, and designers, including both Italians and those who moved there for work or love. Each episode is structured around a single Italian word that serves as a prompt for memories, associations, and personal stories. The show explores intimate, lesser-heard experiences of living through and with Italy.

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“Please don’t sweat in our gym”: Scott Schuman on the art of looking effortless ott 15, 2026 2746 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 pictures of Giorgio Armani cycling to work in a suit. He wanted to be a designer, studied costume design and spent years in fashion showrooms, but didn’t pick u

“Life, for women, begins at 60”: Isabella Ducrot on a lifetime of threads ott 15, 2026 1763 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 that taught her mostly guilt. At 17 she fell ill with tuberculosis, which her mother insisted she keep secret, and by 30 she considered herself a spinster

"No scales, no stress": Amber Guinness on cooking by instinct ott 15, 2026 2909 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 baby in a frozen water barrel and learned to cook from a mother who never used scales. Her parents spent years bringing the house back to life, feeding th

Trailer | Introducing Talking Italy ott 15, 2026 39 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, Talking Italy sits down with everyone from astronauts and athletes to directors, actors, chefs and designers. Some were born here, some came for work, s