Fiamma Satta in A walk with you: “We live with disability”

An informal walk, a journey through the memories and emotions of two people who share experiences and get to know each other. Walking with you, the program devised by the journalist Flame Satta and now in its third edition, back inside Geo&Geo starting from Monday 8 November on Rai3 with many guests and many stories to tell. The red thread is represented by the presence of Satta, who will move, together with many protagonists of the world of art and entertainment, to the wheelchair on which she has been forced for nine years due to multiple sclerosis. “With the passage of time I noticed that my condition was not lived in peace by others: they never knew what to tell me”, says Satta who, with Walking with you, did not want to create a space for denunciation, but for sharing.

«Disability is not commented on in this program. I simply go for a walk with these characters without taking care of the barriers, but trying to live, in all serenity and tranquility, a condition that is part of our common life “, comments Satta who, after walking in past editions with characters like Claudia Gerini, Alberto Angela, Alessio Boni, Sonia Bergamasco, Carlo Conti and Paola Turci, will resume this new cycle of appointments starting from Luciana Littizzetto in her Turin up to moving to Rome with Paola Cortellesi and Carlo Verdone and to the Vittoriale with the historian Giordano Bruno Guerri.

Where did the idea come from?
«I wanted to create an idea of ​​disability observed in its possible normality. It is obvious that it is something undesirable for anyone, but it is also true that it is widespread and highly subject to embarrassment and fear ».

Who chooses the itineraries to go?
«Directly the guests. With Luciana Littizzetto we go to her hometown, Turin, and walk through the places that arouse affection and emotions. It is a format that mixes many things together: a reflection on the place visited, the interview with the guest, the story of the normality of disability ».

All names of great appeal also in this tour: from Carlo Verdone to Monica Guerritore.
“Even where they are not extremely popular, there is always something to discover. I am thinking, for example, of Barbara Jatta, the director of the Vatican Museums we visited together during the lockdown ».

Who would you like to take a walk with in the future?
«My biggest regret is Francesco Totti: we had arranged to meet on March 31, 2020 but, due to the lockdown, it was not possible to meet. I would also like to be able to take a walk with Roberto Bolle: each guest is able to bring you an extra wealth, and I hope the same is true for them ».

In his book Me and Her – Confessions of Multiple Sclerosis (Mondadori), writes that disease is a form of knowledge. In what sense?
“Illness is a teacher of life because it makes you go deeper and helps you to know yourself better.”

What did you understand the most about yourself after the illness?
“I had to take note of my shadows, although not everyone likes to venture into them because it causes discomfort and pain. The truth, however, is that the deeper you go, the more you find the light. In the open sky, on the terrace, you do not see a light, while in the cellar, in the midst of pitch darkness, that light not only identifies it, but you can also appreciate it ».

The walks that have remained in your heart the most?
“There have been several: from the one with Sergio Rubini, whom I love to madness, in Gravina, to the one with Vittorio Sgarbi, who is a true gentleman, in Sutri. But also the one with Alessio Boni in Sarnico, a few kilometers from Codogno, and with Paola Minaccioni near the Parco degli Acquedotti in Rome, where she grew up. Each walk has its beauty, and it doesn’t rain on this ».