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Glaciers all over the world are melting faster and faster and it is estimated that by the end of the century, those of the Alps will have completely disappeared. This is why they are also monitored from space with satellites, but it is also essential to study them from the inside, to find out what weakens their “heart”. A mechanism that seems to be the cause of recent and sudden disasters such as those of the Marmolada. The documentary of the Doc Lab made by Marco Visalberghi “Gli Ultimi Ghiacci”, which opens the last episode “Superquark”, the final legacy of Piero Angela, aired tomorrow at 21.20 on Rai 1 tells it. The documentary “enters” the glaciers , in the tunnels and in the so-called glacial mills in the company of the speleologist Francesco Sauro and the astronaut Luca Parmitano to reveal the secrets and unusual faces of these ice giants. Goal, then, on “personalized” medicine, with Barbara Gallavotti and Rita Antonelli: in Val d’Aosta a new center will study the DNA of thousands of people to understand what are the tiny characteristics that can affect our health and how to deal with them. In Greenland, on the other hand, Alberto Angela talks about the Inuit, a population able to live and survive in extreme conditions which, in winter, involve the absolute isolation of the individual agglomerations. A journey through history that also touches the archaeological site of Semermiut, a UNESCO heritage site, scattered with traces of the first phases of human colonization of Greenland, and the museum of Qasigiannguit, a town where Inuit traditions are still well present and maintained. Space also for technology, between microelectronics that can help those with particular types of blindness – as explained by Daniela Franco’s report on an international research of the Gemelli Hospital in Rome – and the Grenoble Synchrotron where the collaboration between doctors, biologists and physicists is by creating a new atlas of the human body and – say Paolo Magliocco and Daniela Franco – it is also possible to examine the damage to individual organs caused by pathologies such as covid. And again, in the service of Marco Visalberghi, all the new technologies for the safety of bridges, while Paolo Magliocco and Gianpiero Orsingher reveal how playing can help the mind stay in shape, slow down aging and fight cognitive decay: from card to electronic games and soon also to robots Guests of Piero Angela, in the studio, for the columns of “Superquark”, Dr. Elisabetta Bernardi talks about the diet of footballers and salt in “Science in the kitchen”, Professor Alessandro Barbero tells the shortest war in history in “Behind the scenes of history” and Massimo Polidoro explains how to recognize real plots and false plots in “Psychology of a hoax”. After having contributed, with great ability and courage, to the solution of the case involving the Jamaican Police, another difficult test awaits both Neville and Florence. In fact, the latter seems determined to leave the island forever. It is the fourth episode of the eleventh season of ‘Crimes in Paradise’, broadcast tomorrow on Rai2 at 21.20, with Ralf Little, Shantol Jackson, Don Warrington. On the day when the name of Luciano Pavarotti will appear among the stars of the legendary ” Walk of Fame “of Hollywood”, Rai Cultura celebrates the great tenor by proposing the restored copy of his historic interpretation of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem Mass directed by Claudio Abbado, broadcast tomorrow at 9.15 pm on Rai 5. Recorded in 1970 in the Basilica of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, in Rome, the Verdi Requiem sees among the protagonists, in addition to Pavarotti, Renata Scotto, Marilyn Horne, Nicolai Ghiaurov, the Rai Symphony Orchestra of Rome, and the Milan and Rome Choirs of the Rai. The restoration of the film was carried out by the Cineteca di Bologna. The Requiem is introduced by a small animation, lasting two minutes, written and directed by Gianluigi Toccafondo for the Celebrations in Los Angeles in memory of Luciano Pavarotti and on the occasion of the laying of the Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The video is produced by Albedo Production. On Rai3 ‘Ribelli’ – On Rai Movie ‘Miracles are accepted’ Tomorrow in prime time at 21.20 Rai3 proposes the film ‘Ribelli’. Escaped from an abusive husband and returned to her hometown of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Sandra starts working in a fish canning company. One day to defend herself from the heavy advances of her boss, she accidentally kills him and then together with two colleagues who have witnessed the scene she discovers a bag full of money among the things of the deceased. It is the beginning of a daring series of troubles. Fulvio, a manager who has been fired and ended up in trouble, is entrusted to his brother, the parish priest of a church in a small town in the Italian province. To help the community in crisis of funds, he has a brilliant idea: invent a miracle to attract the faithful and tourists. This is the plot of ‘We accept miracles’, the film that Rai Movie proposes tomorrow at 21.10. The 2015 film is directed and starring Alessandro Siani, flanked by Fabio De Luigi, Serena Autieri, Anna Caterina Morariu, Giovanni Esposito and Massimiliano Gallo. The reconstruction of the famous stay of John, Paul, George and Ringo in the Indian subcontinent, where they found very rich creative and spiritual stimuli, in the documentary “The Beatles and India”, broadcast tomorrow at 22.45 on Rai 5. In 1968 the Beatles – together with an entourage of wives, friends and collaborators – retired to the Himalayan ashram of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, where in a few weeks they wrote most of the tracks contained in the White Album. The documentary contains rare archive footage, recordings and photographs, testimonies and comments from experts, as well as footage from all over India.On Rai3 ‘Past and Present’ – Vittorio Gassman protagonist of ‘Storie della Tv’ on Rai Storia Sacerdote , Jesuit, anti-communist, but also anti-clerical, spy for the PCI, loving husband and professor of philosophy in East Berlin. Alighiero Tondi was all these things. A man of many lives, who embodied the political and religious passions that shook Italy after the Second World War, and of which Professor Alberto Melloni and Paolo Mieli speak in “Passato e Presente”, broadcast tomorrow at 1.15pm on Rai 3 and at 20.30 on Rai Storia. Born into a socialist and atheist family so much that he was not baptized, Tondi became a priest against the will of the family and entered the company of Jesus. After World War II, Communists and Catholics measured themselves across the board, with no holds barred. Tondi is a professor at the Gregorian University and the Jesuits entrusted him with a role of liaison with the world of politics. He has a reputation for being a strong anti-Communist, but it’s just a facade. He actually works in secret for the PCI. When in 1952 he sensationally abandoned the priesthood announcing that he wanted to take the PCI card, his case shakes the Vatican and the entire Italian Church. It is the beginning of an incredible story that will lead Tondi to marry Carmen Zanti, a Communist militant, and to move with her to East Germany, to then return, after the death of his wife and, equally sensationally, to the priesthood. “The showman” was the first to invent two cornerstones of modern TV: the contamination of genres and registers and “the container”, that is, that television segment that offers fragments of different programs held together by the conductor’s charisma. It was 1959. An actor, of course, but also a brilliant author and a courageous innovator. The great Vittorio Gassman is the protagonist of “Storie della Tv” – the cycle by Alessandro Chiappetta and Enrico Salvatori written with Stefano Di Gioacchino and with the advice and participation of Aldo Grasso – broadcast tomorrow at 21.10 on Rai Storia. Among the interviewees Paola Gassman, Giancarlo Scarchilli, Valeria Fabrizi, Pippo Baudo and Renzo Arbore.Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese master in Ukiyo-e art in the Edo era, is today counted among the greatest artists of all time. One of his most loved works of him is “The Great Wave of Kanagawa”. The documentary, an original production by Japanese TV NHK broadcast tomorrow at 19.25 on Rai 5, traces the life of this painter who lived between the 18th and 19th centuries, following the evolution of a singular project: to recreate one of his works, which was destroyed by a fire during the great Kanto earthquake in 1923, starting from a single black and white photograph taken in the early 1900s. A photographer expert in digital processing and a restorer of works of art will try to recreate the work, with its colors original, in order to be able to relocate it where it was originally intended.