Antonio Scurati returns to TV for the first time on Che tempo che fa, after the case that broke out on Rai regarding his monologue on April 25th which was no longer broadcast on «Che will be» by Serena Bortone. Welcomed into the studio by a very long applause from the audience, the writer told how it all began. «I was called by a TV program that I thought belonged to everyone, near April 25th because I wrote at least five books that dealt with that period, I felt obliged to remember the anniversary and I expressed my ideas and moved the criticism of those who govern us and for this reason I was dragged by my hair into a mud fight.” Scurati says he learned that his monologue had been canceled while he was shaving: «The call came from the presenter who I didn’t know, she was distraught and said “her participation has been cancelled”. I didn’t answer anyone who called me, I tried not to reply even though I was sorry. The most serious thing is that at a certain point in the day the head of the government, saying that he doesn’t really know how things went, and this seems to me to be a good reason for keeping quiet, as my father would say, uses unpleasant words, describes me as a greedy. It must not happen that a head of government attacks with disparaging phrases a citizen who is also a writer and should be able to express his point of view.”
Scurati admitted that in situations like those he experienced “there is emphasis even in your supporters… I’m sorry to be dragged into such a vulgar and base controversy.” And then he comments on Ignazio La Russa’s statements towards him: «The second office of the state is the State, it cannot throw itself against a single individual. Imagine Mattarella waking up and saying “Fazio is a terrible presenter”. Fazio jokes: “He’s the only one who didn’t say it.” Scurati then adds: «It’s like saying that a doctor makes money with illness, I don’t make money with Mussolini but with talent, with work. I didn’t do anything original with my monologue, they are ideas and values that seemed obvious and obvious to me.”
Fazio jokes by promising Scurati to pay for his ticket and “a one-page contract” if he agrees to be a guest in the next season of Che tempo che fa. Scurati is not denied. And he takes stock of his story: «If you want to live peacefully at this moment in this country you must not criticize the government, I thought I knew having studied and recounted the dark years of fascism, I understood a little firsthand that democracy is always fight for democracy and we live there today thanks to the fight of our grandfathers and grandmothers. Democracy is not a tall tree but it is like a vine, you have to take care of it every day and only at the end does it give you the magnificent wine of democracy.”
