1980 is the protagonist year of the first appointment with Giovanni Minoli who returns to retrace the television adventure of “Mixer” in his new “Mixer – Twenty years of television”, broadcast from Thursday 12 January in late evening on Rai 3 (and from 18 January also on Wednesdays at 21.15 on Rai Storia). The episode brings back to life Minoli’s famous “Face to Face” in 1980, such as those with Paolo Rossi and Bruno Giordano, two champions on trial for the football betting scandal; Bettino Craxi and Marco Pannella; Maurizio Vitale; Umberto Terracini, the father of the Constituent Assembly; Giovanni Torrisi, Chief of Defense Staff and member of the P2 Lodge. The survey proposed again in 1980 is that on the system of parties and on voting, which Giorgio Napolitano and Claudio Martelli discussed with Minoli, while a report of international scope on the theme “Islam and the burka” was very anticipatory.
There is no shortage of cinema and music: the first through the story of great Italian cinema together with Leo Benvenuti with Monica Vitti, Ugo Tognazzi, Alberto Sordi; the second with Gianni Minà and his meetings with Adriano Celentano, Gianni Morandi, Francesco De Gregori, Lucio Dalla, Pino Daniele. In the end, the editorial by Gemma Pontini alias Paolo Villaggio is inevitable.
From room A of Radio Rai, directed by Luca Mancini, Minoli recounts the great themes and turning points of Italian history at the end of the 20th century, with a new editing, a different narrative plot and a critical editorial style which, more than 40 years later revisits the narrative force and documentary value of the historic gravure and its protagonists, its investigations, its face-to-face and its stories, bringing out a continuity between those eighties and nineties and the photography of our country today – since, as Minoli himself reflects, “Today’s world began yesterday”.
“Mixer – Twenty years of television” – 20 episodes of 45′ each – is a program conceived and conducted by Giovanni Minoli, produced by Rai Cultura in collaboration with Radio Rai, written with Giovanna Corsetti, Giulia Foschini, Sara Tardelli and Ludovica Siani , directed by Luca Mancini. Studio shooting of Sala A of Radio Rai by Leonardo Lo Frano, edited by Serena Valeri, executive producer Roberta Sangermano. Rai delegate Piero A. Corsini.
