The Archives of Radio Radicale offers an audiovisual history of the most significant institutional, political, social and cultural events in Italy since 1976. For its originality, the breadth of topics and interests, this radio archive plays the role of an essential primary source for political, social and cultural history of contemporary Italy. What makes this multimedia collection of digitised documents particularly interesting is the large amount of materials collected and the full recording of all events, which will preserve the whole event without cuts. Since its birth in the second half of the '70s, Radio Radicale has ensured not only the transmission of events but also the preservation and the full documentation of all parliamentary sessions, of the conferences of parties, the major trials, and the major social and political events in Italian daily life. Due to these characteristics and the volume of documents preserved (over 300.000 records, trim, ribbons, mp3, real audio / video), the archives of Radio radical is the major source of documentation on the history of political, institutional and cultural Italy since the late '70s to today by using audio as primary source.
Advance searching and combination of fields are possible. The main subject categories for the records kept in the sound archive of Radio Radicale are:
- Foreign Affairs
- Environment
- Communication
- Culture
- Law
- Economy
- Politics
- Social Questionsi
- Religion
- Health
- Science
- History
The records kept in the sound archive of Radio Radicale can be divided according to its characteristics (creator, content, etc..), in four broad categories:
To stress the historical and cultural value of the Archives of Radio Radicale, nothing could be more explicit then "some numbers" updated in late February 2006, about the different categories of recordings in the Audio/Video Archive:
