
LatitudineZero
LatitudineZero Medienfabrik™
62 episodes listed below
Sci-fi criticism with scientific patience.
The gist
LatitudineZero treats genre culture as a route into bigger questions. One episode can linger over Spock's logic in a Roman Empire allegory, while another works through inflation, neutrino decay, Sophia Loren, or women in music history.
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About LatitudineZero
LatitudineZero is an Italian audio and video feed built around sci-fi, science, film, and the wider culture that gathers around imagined futures. It does not behave like a tightly boxed review show. Star Trek may be the most visible anchor, especially in episodes that move through the original series, Discovery, alien civilizations, continuity knots, and the moral machinery inside a single scene. A plot about a planet with Roman-style domination becomes more than recap. The discussion follows Spock's reasoning, Roddenberry's allegorical method, alternate historical outcomes, world wars, eugenic wars, and the uncomfortable habit of treating the real timeline as the best possible one. That is the show's usual move: start with a detail, then widen the frame. Its science strand works the same way. Episodes on the size of the universe, inflation, false vacuum transitions, great unification, and neutrino decay take technical material seriously without losing the conversational texture of a live talk. The language can be dense, but the explanations keep circling back to comparisons, corrections, and plain restatements. Film coverage is more direct. In the discussion of La vita davanti a sé, Sophia Loren's performance is treated as the central strength, while the direction, script, and underdeveloped subplots are judged more sharply. Music-history material adds another register, with Sound Queens framing women in music through barriers, emancipation, sexism, personal difficulty, and cultural change. The feed also includes playful franchise formats such as Onboarding to Oblivion and Vox Imperialis. Because of that variety, LatitudineZero can feel like a network of related rooms rather than one rigid program. The common thread is not format. It is a belief that science fiction, physics, cinema, and music all deserve patient context. The show suits listeners who like criticism with side paths, fandom with fact-checking, and scientific ideas explained without sanding off their complexity. It is warm, nerdy, and sometimes messy in the productive sense. Its best episodes feel like people thinking aloud with enough background to make the detours worthwhile.
Made for: For Italian-speaking listeners who enjoy Star Trek, speculative worlds, cosmology, film criticism, and pop culture treated with context rather than quick reactions. It especially suits patient fans who like digressions that connect scenes to history, physics, and cultural memory.
What sets it apart: LatitudineZero stands out because it lets franchise discussion and science coexist naturally. A Star Trek review, a neutrino explainer, a Sophia Loren critique, and a music-history profile can all belong to the same editorial universe.
In their own words
Come la radio, ma senza la radio e meglio della radio. Parliamo di fantascienza, fumetti, libri, cinema, scienza, società, cultura pop e meno pop. Produzioni originali ed esclusive LatitudineZero Medienfabrik™.
As heard by us
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · August 2026
LatitudineZero turns science-fiction screen culture into a thoughtful route through history, bureaucracy, and cosmology.
LatitudineZero approaches TV and film through science fiction, then lets the conversation widen into society, history, and cosmology. The sampled episodes move from Trek Files talk about a Star Trek gladiator-world story to a panel on time-travel bureaucracy, and then into…
Why you'd press play
Spock's alternate Rome is one stop; your curiosity can keep going all the way to cosmic inflation.
Press play if you want
- to hear why Spock's view of a Roman-style society complicates your verdict on history
- to follow the numbers behind distant galaxies, even when they get enormous
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Episodes
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Trek Files 43: Nell'arena con i gladiatori
Trek Files episode 43 features hosts Marcello and Gabriella reviewing the Star Trek TOS episode 'Bread and Circuses,' set on a planet where the Roman Empire never fell and televised gladiatorial combat drives audience ratings.
·28m·2 clips - 2
Star Trek: Discovery 3×07
Raffaele reviews Star Trek: Discovery season 3 episode 7, titled 'Unification 3'.
·21m·2 clips - 3
Interface 2037 8: Capricorn One
Sep 24, 2026·1h 2m - 4
Dune
Sep 23, 2026·22m - 5
Muoni magnetici non più anomali?
Sep 23, 2026·38m - 6
Urania e la fantascienza in Italia - Sognielettrici 2025
Sep 22, 2026·1h 8m - 7
Bud Spencer, un colosso tra i mondi possibili
Sep 18, 2026·19m - 8
Una Pasqua speciale con... 2: Balle spaziali
Sep 17, 2026·57m - 9
Shang-Chi e la leggenda dei Dieci Anelli
Sep 16, 2026·26m - 10
Ma quante persone hanno raggiunto la Luna?
Sep 16, 2026·35m - 11
Il progetto Coven Riunito - Giornata Æonica
Sep 15, 2026·46m - 12
Cliquot: la volpe esce dalla tana - Speciale Marginalia 2026
Sep 11, 2026·1h 2m - 13
Fanta-live 7: Ieri, oggi e... domani?
Sep 10, 2026·1h 57m - 14
Star Wars: The Bad Batch - stagione 1
Sep 9, 2026·17m - 15
Scoperto un nuovo rivoluzionario buco nero!
Sep 9, 2026·38m - 16
Oggetti non identificati - Sognielettrici 2025
Sep 8, 2026·1h 16m - 17
Maestri del Suono 5: Dr. Dre
Sep 3, 2026·1h 1m - 18
Interface 2037 7: Viaggio allucinante
Sep 3, 2026·58m - 19
Crudelia
Sep 2, 2026·24m - 20
Attaccatutto nucleare!
Sep 2, 2026·32m - 21
La fiaba e il fantastico nella costruzione dell’età adulta - Oblivion 2026
Sep 1, 2026·58m - 22
Vargas: podcast dall'abisso - Speciale Marginalia 2026
Aug 28, 2026·43m - 23
Trek Files 55: Missione Terra
Aug 27, 2026·39m - 24
Mortal Kombat
Aug 26, 2026·18m - 25
Le fasce di radiazione terrestre
Aug 26, 2026·46m - 26
L’occhio nel cielo - Oblivion 2026
Aug 25, 2026·1h 5m - 27
WOS - The Past
Aug 21, 2026·18m - 28
Trek Files 54: Le parole sacre
Aug 20, 2026·33m - 29
Rifkin's Festival
Aug 19, 2026·18m - 30
Entanglement quantistico
Aug 19, 2026·48m - 31
Dinosauri, alieni, basilischi, diavolerie - Giornata Æonica
Aug 18, 2026·57m - 32
La Biblioteca di Lovecraft: scaffali in ombra - Speciale Marginalia 2026
Aug 14, 2026·44m - 33
Trek Files 43: Nell'arena con i gladiatori
Trek Files episode 43 features hosts Marcello and Gabriella reviewing 'Bread and Circuses,' the Star Trek TOS episode set on a planet where the Roman Empire never fell.
Apr 9, 2026·28m·2 clips - 34
Star Trek: Discovery 3×07
This is a review of the seventh episode of Star Trek: Discovery, focusing on content creation.
Apr 8, 2026·21m - 35
L'universo oltre le Colonne d'Ercole
Host Marco Casolino of LatitudineZero presents a detailed calculation showing the total universe is approximately 10^34 light-years across — 10^23 times larger than the observable 92-billion-light-year universe.
Apr 8, 2026·33m·3 clips - 36
Oblivion: resoconti e spie cardassiane
This episode introduces a science fiction podcast exploring cosmic narratives, authors, and potentially harmless cosmic vibrations.
Apr 7, 2026·32m - 37
Codex 000: Alle Origini del 41° Millennio – Vox Imperialis
This episode introduces Vox Imperialis, a podcast series presenting transmissions and chronicles from the Imperium of Humanity in a science fiction galaxy.
Apr 3, 2026·20m - 38
Sound Queens 3: Debbie Harry
This episode of Sound Queens explores Debbie Harry's life and career as a pioneering woman in music who challenged gender barriers and contributed to female emancipation.
Apr 2, 2026·1h 1m - 39
Fanta-live Special 14: Moonbase '99
Apr 2, 2026·2h 6m - 40
La vita davanti a sé
Apr 1, 2026·15m - 41
Decadimenti neutrinici!
This episode explores nuclear decays involving neutrinos, including standard, exotic, and zero-neutrino decays, with a focus on the Majorana neutrino hypothesis.
Apr 1, 2026·43m - 42
Iter e loop - Stranimondi 2025
Hidden gemThis panel from the Stranimondi 2025 convention, hosted by Fantascientificast, brings together three authors whose novels share a common premise: bureaucratic institutions that manage time travel.
Mar 31, 2026·44m·3 clips - 43
Excelsior!
Mar 27, 2026·1h 2m - 44
Fanta-live 5: Ieri, oggi e... domani?
Mar 26, 2026·2h 24m - 45
Alla ricerca del fotone oscuro
Mar 25, 2026·42m - 46
Star Trek: Discovery 3×06
Mar 25, 2026·19m - 47
Realismo magico - Stranimondi 2025
Mar 24, 2026·1h 9m - 48
WOS - The Past
Mar 20, 2026·27m - 49
Fanta-live Special 13: Star Trek Italian Club - Alberto Lisiero
Mar 19, 2026·2h 8m - 50
Star Trek: Discovery 3×05
Mar 18, 2026·19m - 51
Le reali dimensioni dell'universo
Mar 18, 2026·50m - 52
Incontro con Cosimo Argentina - Stranimondi 2025
Mar 17, 2026·1h 22m - 53
Mostri, tumuli e connessioni
Mar 13, 2026·50m - 54
Fanta-live 4: Ieri, oggi e... domani?
Mar 12, 2026·2h 8m - 55
Dove si inginocchiano i raggi cosmici
This episode discusses high-energy cosmic rays, their extra-galactic origins, and recent findings from the LASO observatory in Tibet, as published in Physical Review Letters.
Mar 11, 2026·44m - 56
The Boys - Seconda stagione
Mar 11, 2026·20m - 57
Speciale Marginalia
This episode features an interview with the minds behind Marginalia, a small, micro, weird, horror, and fantastic publishing fair taking place in Milan on March 21-22.
Mar 10, 2026·43m - 58
Introduzione 03: Leggere il 41° millennio - Vox Imperialis
This episode introduces Vox Imperialis, a podcast series exploring the Warhammer 40k universe through transmissions from the Imperium of Humanity.
Mar 6, 2026·20m - 59
Trek Movie Files 1: Star Trek - The Motion Picture
Mar 5, 2026·1h 58m - 60
Maestri del Suono 3: Brian Eno
This episode explores Brian Eno's revolutionary career as a conceptual artist and music producer who invented ambient music and transformed pop culture through collaborations with artists like David Bowie and Roxy Music.
Mar 5, 2026·1h 1m - 61
Energia oscura senza fiato?
Host Marco Casolino of LatitudineZero presents the April 2024 DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) results, which surveyed over 5 million galaxies and 856,000 quasars across 12 billion years of cosmic history using Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations as a standard ruler.
Mar 4, 2026·54m·4 clips - 62
Star Trek: Discovery 3×04
The host introduces a video review of Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 Episode 4 while expressing uncertainty about continuing to make reviews.
Mar 4, 2026·29m