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Mar 2021
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The food critic behind Italy’s deadliest...

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Federico Umberto D’Amato, the former spy who created the country’s culinary bible, is accused of being behind the 1980 Bologna atrocity. Could this decades old mystery finally be solved?

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Guest: Tom Kington, Italy correspondent for The Times.

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