Gianni Bisiach

Gianni Bisiach (7 May 1927 – 20 November 2022) was an Italian journalist, television and radio writer, presenter, essayist, documentarist, and screenwriter. Born in Gorizia, after getting his degree in Medicine Bisiach enrolled at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. In the mid-1950s he entered RAI as a collaborator of the news program TV 7. In the late 1970s he started working on radio, where he created the long-standing Radio Uno talk show Radio anch'io, which ran between 1978 and 1992 and had a TV spin-off, also hosted by Bisiach.In his variegated career Bisiach also directed the documentary film I due Kennedy and a segment of the anthology film I misteri di Roma, and collaborated on some screenplays. He also wrote several books, notably the interview book Pertini racconta in collaboration with Sandro Pertini.Bisiach died in Rome on 20 November 2022, at the age of 95.