A pleasant evening at the circus gets interrupted when Lara gets a phone call and rushes off to the hospital.

Paola Turci first sang "Bambini" at the 1989 Sanremo Festival. The song is an indictment of child exploitation and an atypical song for Sanremo. She's joined by Marina Rei in this video.

Modal verbs in Italian are potere (to be able to) volere (to want to) and dovere (to have to). Daniela explains how they work!

Lara keeps her promise to the doctor, but in the process falls victim to some gossip among her colleagues at headquarters.

Documentary in three parts, of the famous Italian car race La Mille Miglia (the one thousand miles) with historical shots of some of the greatest drivers in the world and their cars. Fasten your seatbelts for the first part of three.

Based on a true story, this film takes place in Scampia, a poor, crowded suburb just outside Naples. Having one of the highest rates of unemployment in Italy, the Camorra gets its way with many of the kids from this neighborhood, but Gianni also saves many kids by getting them involved in judo.

Marchesi's friends provide details about their long-term relationships with the celebrated chef.

Melanie, the pretty bartender comes to headquarters with information. She flirts unabashedly with Manara. Lara and her aunt recount the circus show for Manara and a possibly very important detail crops up by chance.

Monica Bellucci, the beloved Italian actor, is Fabio Fazio's guest on the talk show Che tempo che fa. Fazio's questions focus on Bellucci's aspirations from her childhood forward.

Marika shows us the entryway of her apartment, from the intercom to the coat rack.

Dixi is a sweet little flying elephant who faces his adventures with optimism and innocence. It's party time.

Daniela takes us through the steps to construct the passato prossimo (present perfect) of verbs. Attenzione! Even though it looks similar to the English present perfect tense, the passato prossimo is used for actions completed at a specific time in the past, so in many cases it corresponds to the simple past in English, not the present perfect!

Rubino and Sardi go to visit Marianna at the circus grounds, and Manara has an unpleasant encounter with the motorcyclist's father.

This historical footage of the Mille Miglia [thousand miles] car race from Brescia to Rome and back includes a cameo appearance by Ingrid Bergman.

We're taken back to before the shots were fired at the Judo school. We get some background on the school and on Enzo's family.