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The Italian Australian Podcast — 144 episodes

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Episode 144: Buongiorno Bimbi! Fun Italian for kids featuring Agnese Bresin

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Episode 143: Buona Festa della Mamma featuring Mamma Rosalba and Nonna Maria

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Episode 142: Foods you can't get outside of Italy featuring Joseph Sgambelluri AKA The Italian Aussie Cook

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Episode 141: Pellegrinis : A Melbourne Legacy featuring Frank Lotito

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Episode 140: Ciao Ragazzi da La Mortazza! Featuring Raffaella Taraborrelli

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Episode 139: From Nonna with Love: Stories of Tradition and Triumph featuring Nella Fitzgerald

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Episode 138: It's not Easter without Pastiera featuring The Little Italian Cook

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Episode 137: More than Music, Gianni Capri’s Story

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Episode 136: Missing Italy: Family, Food and the Little Things

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Episode 135: See you at the Perth Italian Festival featuring Mr Accordion Man

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Episode 134: Feels like Italy at South West Bottega featuring Marco D’Aquino

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Episode 133: Yarraville's Slice of Italy 'Antipasti Deli Cafe' featuring Fabian Manno

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Episode 132: 'Oriundi'- Connecting Italians around the world featuring Anthony Castelvecchi

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Episode 131: A Valentine’s Day Special featuring our Significant Others ❤️

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Episode 130: Comedy in Italian featuring Sonia Di Iorio

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Episode 129: Calabrese of Australia featuring Tony Roda

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Episode 128: The Italian Divorce featuring Frank Lotito

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Episode 127: Nonna Mia! Featuring Etta D’Elia and James Liotta

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Episode 126: Dream Interpretations and the Story of La Befana featuring Rose Inserra

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Episode 125: Malocchio and Italian Folk Magic featuring Rose Inserra

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124: One Foot in Each World featuring Josephine Paone

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Episode 123: The Benevento-Adelaide Connection featuring Mark D’Angelica

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Episode 122: Comedy and Culture with Sooshi Mango

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Episode 121: Italian Immigrant tragedies on the Snowy Scheme featuring Tony Guseli

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Episode 120: A coffee and a chat with Mr Accordion Man

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Episode 119: Teach the Kids Italian with Due Baci Publishing featuring Benita Salvatore

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Episode 118: Breaking Bread with the Artisan Bread Mamma

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Episode 117: The resilience of Italian Australian immigrants featuring Laura Di Martino

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Episode 116: Celebrating our culture with the next generation featuring Adrian and Tom Crescitelli

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Episode 115: Italian Australian Fiction featuring Holly Cardamone

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Episode 114: Italy at the 2026 Cricket World Cup

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Episode 113: Jessica's cultural immersion with 'Italian for a while'

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Episode 112: A must-see film of the 2025 Italian Film Festival- Signorinella : Little Miss featuring Angelo Pricolo

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Episode 111: The Man behind La Musica featuring DJ Gorgz

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Episode 110: The shared histories of Italy and Malta featuring Anthony Gauci

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Episode 109: Massimo meets Merendino

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Episode 108: An Insight into Calabria in 2025

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Episode 107: Family is everything- a chat with our Zie

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Episode 106: Your motivation to start speaking Italian featuring Melissa Monteleone

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Episode 105: Raising an Italian Australian Baby featuring Marco Petta

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Episode 104: Visit the Real Italy with Irpinia Escapes

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Episode 103: The unspoken stories of Italian Australian Immigrants

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Episode 102: The experience of teenage immigrants featuring Federica Zamboni

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Episode 101: Joe Avati on exploring his heritage

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Episode 100: One hundred down, one hundred more to come!

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Episode 99: Remember the name Justin Merendino

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Episode 98: Dance like nobody's watching featuring Taysha Farrugia

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Episode 97: One life, two countries- how Daniele Foti-Cuzzola makes it work!

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Episode 96: How much do you put in the Busta?- Italian Australian Style Featuring James Liotta

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Episode 95: The Uncle Louie Variety show is coming to Australia!

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Episode 94: The perpetual Italian Australian Identify Crisis- featuring Elizabeth Rocca

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Episode 93: It's Not You, it's Me- featuring Rosemary Gattuso

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Episode 92: Our Italian Australian Idol featuring Gisella and Luke Colletti

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Episode 91: Rom-Com fiction by 'The Italian Teacher' Jenna Lo Bianco

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Episode 90: One date, two histories- April 25th

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Episode 89: Are Italians 'really' white? Featuring Anthony Locascio- Part 2

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Episode 88: Are Italians ‘really’ white ? Featuring Anthony Locascio- Part 1

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Episode 87: Growing up Italian Australian featuring Elena Di Fiore

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Episode 86: The most Italian Australian person we know featuring Daniel Siani

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Episode 85: Meet the Perth Italian Festival MC featuring Alexander Circosta

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Episode 84: Favourite 'Nonni words' featuring Massimo Corrente

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Episode 83: The Flesh in My Life featuring Vince Garreffa (Part 2)

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Episode 82: The Flesh in My Life featuring Vince Garreffa (Part 1)

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Episode 81: In the ring with Denise Renzi

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Episode 80: Happily ever after- Italian Australian Style! A Valentine's Day Special

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Episode 79: When you're more Italian than you realise! Ft Laura Cortellazzi

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Episode 78: The influence of our Nonni

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Episode 77: Featuring Joseph and Fiona Millimaci

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Episode 76: From Naples with love featuring Etta D'Elia

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Episode 75: Experience Italy like a local ft Francesca Breda

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Episode 74: Buon Anno a Tutti

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Episode 73: Buon Natale a Tutti featuring Joseph Sgambelluri

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Episode 72: Carmine's Musical Journey from Salerno to Perth

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Episode 71: An Italian Australian Love Story featuring Tiffany and Fabio Corrado

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Episode 70: The Italian Americans of LA featuring Marianna Gatto

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Episode 69: Mangia- How to eat your way through Italy featuring Maria Pasquale

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Episode 68: The Fully Sickest of Them All featuring Massimo Corrente

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Episode 67: Cheese on pasta- yes or no? Featuring Chef Luca Guiotto

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Episode 66: The Language of our Hearts. Michael Cristiano's Italian Album 'Mai Finira'

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Episode 65: A passion for Opera with Naomi Johns

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Episode 64: Marco Petta talks Adelaide Italian Festival 2024

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Episode 63: Does Central Italy exist?

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Episode 62: Are Greeks and Italians the same? Featuring Anthony Locascio

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Episode 61: Your inside guide to the Italian Film Festival 2024

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Episode 60: Italians never forget- Emilio Ricciuti's Amazing Story

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Episode 59: Growing up at the Laguna Veneto Bocce Club

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Episode 58: Tayla's Passion for all things Italian

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Episode 57: Marco Petta always in the action

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Episode 56: A chat with 'Wogism' creator Nicholas

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Episode 55: A new country, a whole new life- featuring Mauro Daviddi

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Episode 54: The story behind Mr Accordion Man featuring Frank Miranda

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Episode 53: Celebrating one year of the Italian Australian Podcast

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Episode 52: ‘Fate decided by the toss of a coin' ft Sara Migliaccio

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Episode 51: Italian Traditions Down Under- ft Joseph Sgambelluri AKA The Italian Aussie Cook

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Episode 50: ‘What went wrong? Italy at Euro 2024 featuring Anthony Cortellazzi

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Episode 49: Exploring our ancestors and DNA surprises

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Episode 48: When 3 Italian Australians get on a zoom call....

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Episode 47: The Spud King Tony Galati

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Episode 46: Keep your Italian language connection with Hashtag Italia Radio

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Episode 45: Featuring Samuel AKA the Accordion Prodigy

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Episode 44: Inspiration Calabrese Style- featuring Biagio Versace

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Episode 43: Melo joins us for Scopa Vs Briscola

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Episode 42: Italian Football fever hits Perth- featuring Anthony Cortellazzi

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Episode 41: ‘Mamma's not happy' with James Liotta

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Episode 40: Getting your Italian Citizenship

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Episode 39: A chat with Joe Avati

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Episode 38: How to research your family tree - featuring Bob Sorrentino

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Episode 37: An Italo-Belgian Down Under! ‘Heapost’ creator - Diego Filippozzi

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Episode 36: ‘What’s in a name?’

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Episode 35: Recap of Perth Italian Festival

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Episode 34: ‘Wog Life'- A tribute to Nick Giannopoulos

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Episode 33: Buona Pasqua

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Episode 32: Introducing our Nonna Maria

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Episode 31: Marco Petta talks Sanremo 2024

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Episode 30: Everything you need to know about the Perth Italian Festival

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Episode 29: Our NSW correspondent featuring Joseph Sgambelluri AKA The Italian Aussie Cook

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Episode 28: Featuring Giuseppe the MC

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Episode 27: Diamante The Italian Lifestyle TV- featuring Adriano Ippoliti

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Episode 26: That’s NOT Amore featuring Carla Anita Mattiazzo

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Episode 25: Leaving ‘Il Bel Paese’ from Saronno to Dardanup- Giovanni Marchetti and his story

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Episode 24: Let’s talk about…. Food!!

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Episode 23: Buonasera Signorina- featuring Etta D’Elia

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Episode 2: Italian? Australian? What it means to be both

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Introduction and Benvenuti to The Italian Australian Podcast

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Episode 22- Italian Australian Generation Z featuring il nostro cugino- Adam Hester

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Episode 21: The First Italian Australian Prime Minister- Anthony Albanese

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Episode 20: Italian Australians and Cricket

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Episode 19: Buon Natale a tutti- a Christmas special with our compari

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Episode 18: From Milan to Adelaide featuring Marco Petta

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Episode 17: A passion for languages and teaching- introducing Joseph Millimaci

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Episode 16: North Vs South featuring Deanna Furze

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Episode 15: Melo and Rosalba’s trip to Italy

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Episode 14: You can take the boy out of Harvey…Introducing Joseph Sgambelluri our NSW correspondent

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Episode 13: Italians love dogs- featuring Bianca Santucci

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Episode 12: DNA, family research and blood memory- what this means to us

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Episode 11- Featuring Nikki Dagostino ‘Little Miss Squeezebox

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Episode 10: Introducing our Mum Rosalba

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Episode 9: Featuring James Liotta Part 2

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Episode 8: Featuring James Liotta Part 1

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Episode 7: AFL Italian Team of the Century

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Episode 6: Unsuspecting Italian Australians

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Episode 5: Visiting Italy

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Father’s Day Special- Our Dad Melo and his story

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Episode 3 Italian Australia, where are we at? Culture, generations and language.