Years of Lead Pod

About Years of Lead Pod

This is a podcast about the period of political violence that gripped Italy between 1967-1982, focusing on stories about its key protagonists and defining events. We'll have interviews with guests who are experts in the subject and/or were there at the time. It's planned as a limited series that moves in roughly chronological order with some bonus episodes for subscribers.

Publisher

Alexander Reid Ross

Category

history

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

15 Apr 2022

Latest episode

6 Oct 2025

Latest episodes

119 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2025

   Franco Piperno: The Insurrectionary Nuclear Physicist, ft. Matilde Marcolli

   Matilde Marcolli (https://www.its.caltech.edu/~matilde/) is a computational linguist and mathematical physicist currently serving as Robert F. Christy Professor of Mathematics and Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech. Her latest book is Mathematical Structure of Syntactic Merge: An Algebraic Model for Generative Linguistics (https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780262552523) with Noam Chomsky and Robert C. Berwick. References Francesco Cirillo, "L'autonomia nomade." Gli autonomi: La autonomia operaia meridionale—Basiclica, Puglia, Calabria, Sicilia, part 3. eds Antonio Bove, Francesco Festa. DeriveApprodi, 2022. Oscar Greco, "L'Autonomia nel Sud. Affinità e divergenze tra i movimenti e l'autonomia calabrese." Gli autonomi: La autonomia operaia meridionale—Basiclica, Puglia, Calabria, Sicilia, part 3. eds Antonio Bove, Francesco Festa. DeriveApprodi, 2022. Adriano Maini, "Si strutturano nuove modalità di protesta quali assemblee, conferenze, dibattiti, sit-in, commissioni di lavoro (http://collasgarba2.altervista.org/si-strutturano-nuove-modalita-di-protesta-quali-assemblee-conferenze-dibattiti-sit-in-commissioni-di-lavoro/)," Collasgarba, January 5, 2023. David P. Palazzo. The "Social Factory" In Postwar Italian Radical Thought From Operaismo To Autonomia. Dissertation. State University of New York, 2014. Fabio Papalia. Il Sessantotto italiano nella dinamica delle occupazioni e dei cortei: un confronto tra i movimenti studenteschi di Torino, Milano e Roma. Dissertation. Università degli studi Roma Tre, 2011. Paolo Perri, "Per un pugno di riviste? Il blitz all'Università della Calabria." Gli autonomi: La autonomia operaia meridionale—Basiclica, Puglia, Calabria, Sicilia, part 3. eds Antonio Bove, Francesco Festa. DeriveApprodi, 2022. Franco Piperno, Lo spettacolo cosmico. Scrivere il cielo: lezioni di astronomia visiva. DeriveApprodi, 2007. Franco Piperno, "Conversazione in Calabria." Gli autonomi: La autonomia operaia meridionale, part 1. eds Antonio Bove, Francesco Festa. DeriveApprodi, 2022. Franco Piperno, "⁠AUTONOMIA POSSIBILE, VALORE D'USO, LAVORO NON-OPERAIO⁠ (https://www.autistici.org/operaismo/Autonomi3/saggi_storici/franco%20piperno_franco%20piperno.html#1)." Metropoli, Rome, 1978. Franco Piperno and Francesco Raparelli, "La rivolta del sapere (https://www.dinamopress.it/news/rivolta-del-sapere/)," Dinamo Press, June 27, 2018. Potere Operaio. "Alle avanguardie per il partito," 1970. Marco Scavino. Potere operaio: La storia. La teoria. Vol. 1. Roma: Derive Approdi, 2018. Steve Wright. The Weight of the Printed Word: Text, Context and Militancy in Operaismo. Leiden: Brill, 2021.

2. 

   4 Dec 2024

   The Uar, pt. 3: We're Just Mad About Saffron (ft. Cantor)

   Historian and musicologist Cantor shares insights on the cultural significance of saffron in the Uar, shedding light on the complexities of its symbolism and impact on society.

3. 

   27 Nov 2024

   The Uar, pt. 2: The Rise of D'Amato (ft. Cantor)

   Historian and author Jeffrey Cantor explores the rise of D'Amato and the complex web of terrorism and politics in 1970s Italy.

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.6 / 5

23 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

30 ratings