Nobel physics laureate Arthur McDonald on Friends and Enemies on Radio 24
The health of scientific research and the importance of academic freedom with the Canadian professor who won the Prize in 2015. And then 25 April, dossiers and politics with the other guests of the day. Also guests Francesca Parri, Giancarlo De Cataldo and Giovanni Diamanti
Saturday 25 April, from 8.30am to 10am, Radio 24 returns with Marianna Aprile and Daniele Bellasio.
Guests of the episode will be Arthur McDonald (Nobel Prize winner for Physics in 2015), Giancarlo De Cataldo (writer, playwright and screenwriter, former magistrate), Francesca Parri (currently vice-president of the Rome and Lazio section of Fiap - Federazione Italiana Associazioni Partigiane).
After the usual opening editorials, from 8.45 a.m. onwards Francesca Parri will be the guest on the programme. With her, the presenters will talk about 25 April, the day on which Liberation Day from Nazifascism is celebrated, starting from the book Remembrance is the only defence. Il manoscritto ritrovato di una donna antifascista (Solferino, 2026), signed by Ester Verrua Parri and edited by Francesca Parri and Andrea Ricciardi.
Then, from about 9.05 a.m., Aprile and Bellasio will interview the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics Arthur McDonald, who is visiting Italia to take part in the Marconi Day, scheduled tomorrow at Villa Griffone, in Pontecchio Marconi (BO). The presenters will talk to McDonald about academic freedom, technological progress and scientific research.
At 9.30 a.m., then, the presenters will talk with Giancarlo De Cataldo about the all-Italian mania for dossiers and spies, following the investigation by the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office into the suspected dossiers of the so-called 'Fiore Squad'.


