Italian writer, director and TV/radio author; creator of the fictional character Jack Folla.

Created the Jack Folla character; the Jack Folla program aired on Radio Due and was adapted for Rai Due. Roberto Pedicini provided the reciting voice in the TV version; Francesca Neri appears in the TV adaptation.

The review covers Diego Cugia's Jack Folla — a fictional DJ on death row whose radio monologues mixed music and incisive social critique. The program began on Radio Due and was adapted for Rai Due with Roberto Pedicini's voice and Francesca Neri in a role. Highlights include reflections on loneliness and a strong moral indictment of contemporary society.

For:Readers interested in Italian radio and TV, character-driven social critique, and experimental broadcast fiction.

 228 days to execution: "Jack Folla, the DJ on death row. You say it’s absurd? No, brother, the absurd thing is not that I’m an Italian on death row in a maximum-security prison in the United States. The absurd thing is that you’re out there. That all of you are free and in a mess. Where’s your freedom, darling? In the concentration camps of those shitty neighborhoods they’ve stuck you in like cattle, what do you expect to become, honorable? They keep you alive only because you need to buy. Shopping advice? Screw it. And your first paycheck - when they decide to give it to you - will be sized up to buy the needs they’ve shot into your brain on television. You feel like you’re dying, and what do they offer you? A Magnum. And they have a girl with an anteater’s tongue licking it. Try offering her a creamy one and see where she sends you. So you’re scared shitless, but you joke and pretend nothing’s wrong. Pretend nothing’s wrong. Pretend nothing’s wrong. Your father is an alcoholic, pretend nothing’s wrong. Your mother is dying of cancer, pretend nothing’s wrong, pretend nothing’s wrong. Damn, maybe I have AIDS. Pretend nothing’s wrong. You make love to her and pretend nothing’s wrong, because you have nothing left inside, nothing, they haven’t left you anything, they’ve screwed you over, thrown you in and tossed the keys. Which of us is on death row? Me or you? Welcome to Alcatraz, darling."

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