Start

Start is a concise editorial briefing from Sole 24 Ore, built for listeners who want the day’s useful news framed with economic and civic context. Its weekday episodes favor practical clarity. Contract increases, tax rules, welfare support, student mobility, university enrollment, salaries, cost of living, and demographic decline are explained as connected pressures on households, workers, and institutions. The language is direct. Numbers appear because they matter, but they are usually tied to a concrete implication: who is included, who is excluded, what changes in a pay packet, or why Italy risks losing more talent than it attracts. The show’s daily form is compact, but not thin. It gives listeners a working map of policy and public life without turning the briefing into a debate program. Start Weekend broadens the frame. Those episodes slow down and draw from the Sunday cultural pages, often following a chain of essays rather than a breaking-news agenda. One recent installment traced the alliance between enterprise and culture through Leonardo da Vinci, manufacturing, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, literature, and the industrial imagination. Another moved through the twentieth century by way of Miles Davis, Paolo Fresu’s memories of listening, jazz history, and architecture shaped by politics and finance. The weekend version has a more reflective, literary cadence. It is comfortable with quotation, memory, criticism, and historical contrast. Across both modes, Start keeps returning to the same editorial question: how daily facts fit inside larger systems of work, education, industry, art, and change. It is especially useful for listeners who follow Italy through the lens of money, institutions, and culture, and who prefer a disciplined briefing over personality-led chatter. The show’s strength is its range. It can move from a substitute tax on contract renewals to the meaning of slowness in contemporary art, from university retention data to the sound world of Miles Davis, while still sounding like one coherent editorial desk.