Four Pages in Voice | A Listener's Guide

The journey curator Giulia Galeotti invites us on in Four Pages in Voice is genuinely luminous—six episodes that shimmer across genres: historical sketches, narrative, testimony, poetry, music. All of it woven together with the skill and grace that only deep study, careful attention, and real knowledge can bring. We begin with Franco Basaglia, marking a century since his birth. The second episode opens a chapter of immigration to Italy that is both remarkable and nearly forgotten: the all-female migration from Cape Verde in the 1960s. The pain of uprooting, of young women transplanted to a country so foreign to them—and yet where saudade, that aching homesickness, became also a longing for tomorrow, a will to believe in "a horizon of light." The third episode, The Power of Dreams, poses a question that cuts painfully close: "Can we dream in war?" Two episodes follow the churches built by communities of believers, moving through time and space, with a long meditation on the Sagrada Familia, where Gaudí also opened a school for the children of workers and residents in the neighborhood—then wretchedly poor. The sixth and final episode takes the port as its subject, in all its extraordinary meanings: port as space, as metaphor for life, as departure and hostile or welcoming arrival, as a kaleidoscope of humanity, a place of hope and yet of condemnation for the women, men, and children who, yesterday and today, seem to be only nameless, stubborn forces.