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Happy 100th Birthday Thelma Ruby!
A star-turn from 100 year old actor and activist, Thelma Ruby. Published on Inside Europe 20 March 2025https://www.dw.com/en/inside-europe-20-march-2025/audio-71990510
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Ska Moteane and the cuisine of Lesotho
Ska Moteane is an award-winning cookery writer and chef. She’s the only person to have ever written a cookbook on the cuisine of Lesotho. Her mission to write down the recipes…
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Sanremo
Known as the city of flowers, Sanremo is a picturesque town in northwestern Italy. For Italians, it’s most famous for the annual song festival which came to an end last weekend.…
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Musings on the differences between Italian and British weddings
At an Italian wedding, food is more important than speeches – and confetti isn’t something you throw, it’s something you eat! First published on From Our Own Correspondent, BBC Radio 28…
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Italy’s dying breed of wild-mussel divers
With over 7,000 km of coastline, it’s not surprising mussels are such a popular dish on Italian menus. While Mediterranean mussels are nowadays farmed in nets in the sea, there’s one…
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Bologna’s Leaning Tower
Bologna is famous for The Three Ts: tortellini, towers and tits. Incredibly, you can’t say ‘tits’ on American radio and Inside Europe is rebroadcast on many NPR stations, hence the beep.…
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