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Last broadcast on Sat, 31 Jul 2010, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Lucretia Grindle was so fascinated by the plaques honouring the Second World War Italian resistance fighters in Florence that she decided to do some digging. Not only did she discover the buried history of the Italian resistance to Nazi occupation during the Second World War, but she also found that the women of the city had a significant role in the struggle. Sandi Toksvig talks to her and to photographer Johnnie Shand Kydd about his collection of pictures documenting the dramatic street culture of Naples.
Sandi also hears about Super Furry Animals lead singer Gruff Rhys's journey to South America to find his long-lost relative Rene Griffiths, the Patagonian gaucho who sings in Welsh.
Producer: Laura Northedge.
Lucretia Grindle
Lucretia Grindle is the author of a novel called The Villa Triste about two partisan sisters in Florence during the Nazi occupation of Italy in 1943. Lucretia interest in the Italian resistance started when she noticed the plaques for the resistance fighters all over Florence.
The Villa Triste
Publisher: Mantle
ISBN-10: 023074477X
ISBN-13: 978-0230744776
Johnnie Shand Kydd
Johnnie Shand Kydd is an internationally acclaimed photographer who is exhibiting a collection of pictures of street life in Naples called Siren City. Johnnie fell in love with Naples in 2000 when he was invited to an exhibition there and stayed for three months. He found the city weird, very loud but also vivacious with lots of theatre on the streets; he went back over several years to photograph it.
Siren City
Publisher: Other Criteria
ISBN-10: 1906967091
ISBN-13: 978-1906967093
Exhibition: Siren City: Photographs of Naples by Johnnie Shand Kydd
Venue: Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
30 June 2010 - 12 September 2010
39a Canonbury Square
London
N1 2AN
Tel: 020 7704 9522
Gruff Rhys
Gruff Rhys is the lead singer of Super Furry Animals. Gruff’s latest film ‘Separado’ follows his journey from Wales, to Brazil and the Argentine Andes to discover what became of his distant cousin Rene Griffiths, a Patagonian gaucho who sang in Welsh and was popular in Wales in the 1970s.
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