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Radio3
Sixty years after its first broadcast, on 1
Octoer 1950, Radio3 is still the only
free cultural station that dedicates all its
programming to quality music and
culture.
An expansion of themes and languages
during 2009 prepared the new
programming in force from 11 January
2010.
With 1,892,000 listeners in the second
half of the year, it was confirmed as one
of the top ten national radio stations.
The heart of Radio3's commitment to
production and programming continues
to be music.
During the year the network broadcast
925 live music events, with 208 actually
going out live on air and about 300
recorded by the radio station.
Considerable programming space was
devoted to opera and musical theatre,
with 104 titles broadcast and about 40
titles coming from theatres in other
countries. The most prestigious
appointments were the inauguration of
the main Italian and foreign theatre
seasons, contemporary music festivals
and events focusing mainly on research.
Radio3 is also the European public
radio station which dedicates most
space to jazz (70 concerts broadcast
live or recorded) and borderline music
with a continuative and structured
offering.
Radio3 also organises and directly
produces important festivals and events
which offer space to the best of the
emerging generation.
Another project which involves Radio3
in the production of live music seasons
is that of 'I Concerti di Radio3 a Palazzo
Venezia'. The 2009 edition was
dedicated entirely to performers from
Abruzzo, as a tribute to the lively
musical culture of a region devastated
by an earthquake.
For the theatre, Rai3 intensified the
broadcasts of live entertainment in the
two auditorium halls of Via Asiago,
proposing a series of arrangements �
often designed or adapted for radio �
which were particularly significant.
These included De Profundis by Oscar
Wilde, performed by Paolo Bonacelli,
and Caligola by Albert Camus revisited
by Roberto Latini. The Radio3 theatre
began a collaboration with the ETI -
Ente Teatrale Italiano - inviting some of
the artists from the project Monografie
di Scena, such as Spiro Scimone and
Francesco Sframeli.
The special programmes that took
Radio3 out of its studios to report on
Italy's major cultural events in 2009
included Fahrenheit which monitored �
hosting all the stars of the live events �
the Turin Book Fair, Festivaletteratura in
Mantua, the Philosophy Festival of
Modena and that of Roma, Galassia
Gutenberg in Naples, Minimondi in
Parma and the small and medium
publishers' fair 'Più libri più liberi' in
Roma, where the 'Fahrenheit Book of
the Year' award ceremony was held.
Radio3 Scienza reported on all the new
scientific publications at the Turin Book
Fair, the Genoa Science Festival, and
the Rome Science Festival, organising
and broadcasting a series of meetings
dedicated to Charles Darwin live from Rome's Palladium Theatre. Hollywood Party monitored all the most important
film festivals, like those of Berlin,
Cannes, the Torino Film Festival and the
Rome Film Festival, also offering
numerous previews of films in the
popular Sunday appointment 'Cinema
alla radio', as well as a series of special
programmes presented by celebrities
from the new Italian film world, like
Gabriele Muccino, Filippo Timi and
Marco Risi.
2009 also consolidated the huge
success of the readings of major novels
Ad Alta Voce, which was confirmed as
the champion of the download
classifications in Radio3's podcast
offering. It was partly due to this success
that the entire network was first in the
RadioRai podcast classification, with
over 500,000 downloads a month.
April was marked by the dreadful
earthquake in Abruzzo, to which Radio3
responded with numerous analyses and
a special musical programming during
the days of national mourning.
Special programmes designed,
produced and broadcast by Radio3
included, in May, Serenissima on the
ancient routes from Venice to Byzantium
and the new series of the innovative,
sophisticated and irreverent radio variety
show Dottor Djembè by and with
Stefano Bollani and David Riondino.