Oliviero Beha

Oliviero Beha (born 14 January 1949) is an Italian journalist, writer, essayist, TV and radio host.

Biography

Beha was born at Florence, and began to work as journalist in 1973 for the sport newspaper Tuttosport and for Paese Sera. During his stay in Madrid, he graduated and also practiced athletics for Real Madrid.

In 1976-1985 he worked for the left-oriented newspaper La Repubblica, dealing with sport and social themes, and wrote articles for several editions of the Olympic Games. In 1984 he published a report by which result of the football match Italy-Camerun in the 1982 Football World Cup had been decided between the players before playing. After working also for the newspaper Rinascita, Il Messaggero and Il Mattino (Beha later worked also for the right-winged L'Indipendente), in 1987 he began the host of TV show Va' pensiero, together with Communist journalist Andrea Barbato. The show was aired on Rai 3 and lasted until 1989.

In the following years Beha provided TV specials about Italian an international themes for Italian state television, mostly for Rai 3, and hosted the show Un terno al lotto (1991) in which people seeking and offering job could met freely. The following year Beha launched Radio Zorro, a daily radio show aired at Radio Rai. The show, later rechristened Radio Zorro 3131, was cancelled in 2004, a period in which the right government coalition led by Silvio Berlusconi controlled Rai; the closure was followed by a series of legal suits by Beha against Rai.

beha also wrote several books, including essays and poetry collections, which have won several Italian literary prizes. Among his numerous activities in the 2000s, Beha has also written for the left newspaper L'Unità (2005-2008), and was a co-founder of Il Fatto Quotidiano in 2009.

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