Ulisse - The Pleasure of Discovery — Season 24
About this season
Alberto Angela leads the dissemination program dedicated to history, art and culture. A historical, archaeological, informative story, with the presence of some protagonists of the Italian cultural or artistic scene.
Episodes (5)
1. Pompei: a Great Discovery
Aired 26 February 2025 • 17 min
In Regio IX of Pompeii a new unexpected discovery: a large fresco, a megalograph with a Dionysian theme. Alberto Angela shows exclusively a sumptuous banquet hall with extraordinary frescoes, witnesses of rites, art and life in the ancient city.
2. Van Gogh - The Colors of Eternity
Aired 7 April 2025 • 126 min
Alberto Angela talks about Vincent van Gogh: a journey through the places and emotions that inspired his masterpieces. From the vibrant brush strokes to the unique light of his canvases, an intimate portrait of the genius who revolutionized art with his tormented humanity.
3. On the Notes of London
Aired 14 April 2025 • 133 min
In this episode Alberto Angela walks through the English capital on streets that will become a real musical pentagram. We discover London through its songs aboard a bus, the legendary double decker, and we stop at the most iconic places in the city, including Abbey Road Studios, the Royal Albert Hall and the very famous Wembley Stadium where one of the most famous concerts in the history of music was held: Live Aid.
4. Istanbul - The City That Lived Three Times
Aired 28 April 2025 • 120 min
In this episode with Alberto Angela we travel through the history of one of the most fascinating cities in the world: first a Greek colony with the name of Byzantium, then with the name of Constantinople, for more than a thousand years the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and for another five hundred of the Ottoman Empire and finally a megalopolis of modern Turkey with the name of Istanbul.
5. Hiroshima and Nagasaki - The Days That Changed the World
Aired 2 June 2025 • 133 min
On the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which took place in August 1945, Alberto Angela retraces the fundamental stages of this event that marked the history of humanity.