An absurd background story emerges about the popularizer Alberto Angela: The sensational swipe comes like a bolt from the blue.
The very valued host Alberto Angela He inherited the passion for science, history and anthropology from his father Piero, who died on August 13, 2022, and followed in his parents’ footsteps in Rai and marked the success of several formats – both at his side and alone.
After graduating in France, Alberto Angela obtained a diploma Graduated with 110 cum laude in Natural Sciences from the University of La Sapienza in Rome. He later flew to the USA and deepened his passion for paleontology and paleoanthropology at the renowned institutes of Harvard, UCLA and Columbia University.
After completing his studies, Alberto Angela took part in numerous events International shipmentsand spent a lot of time at historical sites and excavations. In 1993, he began collaborating with his famous father on the development of the format “The Planet of the Dinosaurs” on the Rai flagship, and then received the role of author in “Superquark”, “Quark speciali” and “Viaggio nel cosmo”.
Alberto Angela is currently involved in the production and moderation of “Noos – The Adventure of Knowledge” and has proven for years that he can manage his own programs in complete autonomy and draw any conclusions from them alleged nepotism on the part of the father seem completely unjustified. Piero Angela himself admitted this in an old interview with Il Corriere della Sera.
Alberto Angela and his career in Rai: “At Superquark only because he’s good”
Piero Angela has wanted to clarify in the past how his son got to the public broadcaster thanks to his talent and not because of favoritism and biased decisions. The popularizer reported to Il Corriere della Sera: “If it were up to me, my son wouldn’t be in Rai todayfor if he had come to work with me, they would have opened the pigeon shooting against him and against me.”
At that time, father and son worked together in the format “Ulysses – The Joy of Discovery” and the older presenter had specified: “The deputy director of Rai1, Andrea Melodia, came to meet me and pointed out that my son had worked with different people .” TV channels and therefore he was able to work with me as a freelancer. In short, there was no hiring and Alberto only worked on Superquark because he was good: it was better for us to use him“. Despite the family relationship, Piero Angela always wanted to maintain a semblance of formality at work, even with his son; For this reason, he called himself “Piero” and not “Papa” on set.
Piero and Alberto Angela – Romait.it (web source)
Alberto Angela’s failure in fifth grade: “It hurt a lot!”
Later, Piero Angela also said that his son had failed the first cycle of compulsory studies, commenting: “How did I get it? So! If someone is not doing well, they must be punished“.
Then he concluded with irony: “It hurt him very much. I think it started a positive spiral in him…“.