Ticket to Ride, the book arrives: from radio format to “paper radio” – Virtù Quotidiane

L’AQUILA – Traveling while standing still through a cultural journey entitled ‘Ticket to Ride – Paper Radio’ which is intended as an invitation to a journey through words, songs and emotions. The book (published by Infomedia Group), which will be presented on Thursday 18 April at 6.30pm at Spazio Rimediato, represents an experiment in literary and radio entertainment.

Written by Antonella Finucci, Fabio IulianoAnd Valeria Valeri, the text transports the reader into a particular sound and narrative universe. It was born from the experience of a radio program and evolved into a real paper radio. The story of “Ticket to Ride” started as a game, an idea that took shape thanks to its authors’ passion for music and literature. With the support of Giovacchino D’Annibale of Radio L’Aquila 1 and of Giuseppe Tomei of Spazio Rimediato, the project developed from a radio broadcast to a theater show and then to a book, “a paper radio”.

Through 24 routes – each developed in an episode of Radio L’Aquila 1 – the reader is invited to explore worlds and emotions, guided by the suggestions proposed by the authors. Each page is a piece of a narrative puzzle, where words blend with songs and music, creating a multisensory reading experience. But ‘Ticket to Ride – Paper Radio’ is not just a book to read, it is an all-round experience which also involved some schools in the area. With the possibility of listening to the songs mentioned, through the QR Code, the reader is completely immersed in the atmosphere of the journey proposed by the pages.

This is the narrative pact with readers, a story to shape and experience as they wish. Start wherever you like, explore each itinerary at your leisure. Each page is an invitation to a new journey, a new discovery.” The preface is written by the journalist Giustino Parisse.

BIOGRAPHIES

Antonella Finucci was born in Celano, in the province of L’Aquila, in 1985. Journalist. She has a specialist degree in Literature and a master’s degree in Publishing, Journalism and Cultural Management. You are a teacher at the “Andrea Argoli” Technical Institute for Tourism in Tagliacozzo in the province of L’Aquila. She has collaborated as an editor for Skyscanner and Lt Multimedia and as a press officer with Einaudi Editore. You are a member of APS L’Aquila Volta la Carta. She is the curator of the blog Geostorie.it which she has managed since 2018 in collaboration with her students. She was the editor in chief of the quarterly Autismo & Co. and collaborated with Virtù Quotidiane, an online food and wine information newspaper.

Fabio Iuliano was born in L’Aquila in 1978. Journalist, teacher of foreign languages. Among the collaborations are the Ansa agency and the newspaper Il Centro (former newspaper L’Espresso-Finegil Editoriale). As a blogger, in addition to having followed various international sporting events, from the Universiade (in Europe and Asia) to the Race Across America – the crazy cycling race from one end of the United States to the other – he has conducted some investigations on immigration with reports in Italy, Romania and Morocco. In 2007 he won the Polidoro journalistic award. Sports and music tourist, he plays alternative rock and is a member of Rockin’1000, the biggest rock band in the world with which he has also given concerts in the stadiums of Paris and Madrid.

Valeria Valeri was born in L’Aquila in 1970, graduated in Literature and teaches Italian and history at the Iis Da Vinci Colecchi in L’Aquila. Since 2011 you have been president of the social promotion association “L’Aquila volta la carta” which deals with the promotion of books and reading. You have obtained specialization diplomas in Archiving and Library Science and Inventory, conservation and restoration of book assets. She is a member of some popular juries of literary prizes and is a member of the Abruzzo Deputation of Homeland History. You collaborate with Radio L’Aquila 1 (broadcasts: ”Ticket to ride”, “Zoom inside the news”).