La Gita, a podcast recounting the Giuliano-Dalmatian exodus through the voice of a child refugee

On the occasion of the celebrations of 10 February, The Day of Remembrance, established in order not to forget the massacres of the foibe, 24 Hour Podcast presents La Gita, a work by Alessandro Casale that entrusts memory to a living, marked, real voice, to recount one of the most painful and long-forgotten pages of Italian history: the Julian-Dalmatian exodus.

The podcast is available on Radio 24's website and app, 24orepodcast.com and major audio platforms, with the six episodes being released in bulk.

 The Gita gathers a direct and authentic testimony: Alida, the voice of the protagonist, now the author's mother, who was only five years old at the time of the events. It is her story, experienced in the first person, that drives the narrative. A little girl who in 1947 is told that she is leaving for a trip. In reality, it is a final farewell. Under the snow of Pula, with only a few hastily closed cases, she boards the motorship Toscana together with tens of thousands of Italians forced to abandon their land, their home, their identity.

His voice, fragile and powerful, traverses the bombings, the foibe, the armistice, Yugoslavian repression, fear and uprooting. It also traverses the next seven years, spent in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Bergamo, where childhood is consumed behind blankets hanging by a thread, used as walls, a safety pin linking them like a house key, in a forced coexistence of solidarity and conflict, humanity broken and painstakingly reassembled. An experience that leaves a deep and permanent mark,"a mark that stays with you forever".

The podcast is the story of a family - that of Alessandro Casale - but also of an erased collective memory, reconstructed step by step. An intimate dialogue between mother and son that restores voice and dignity to the stories of those who have lost everything and shows how even torn roots can, surprisingly, find a way to be reborn elsewhere.