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Hard Feelings with Jennette McCurdy

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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We are dropping in your feed today to share a series that we know you will enjoy. Pack One Bag is epic true story of an Italian family, split apart by love, fascism and war. Through shocking discoveries - and Stanley Tucci’s artistry - an enthralling personal history comes to life.

When documentarian David Modigliani was a kid, his grandfather, Franco, won the Nobel Prize. But, David’s always been more fascinated by the love story that made it possible -- his grandparents' romance on the run from Fascist Italy. When he digs into their story, he uncovers a darker side to their fairytale escape: a brother left behind to face the Nazi occupation - and startling personal connections between his family and Benito Mussolini. In the Tribeca-winning podcast, PACK ONE BAG, he returns to Italy to investigate his family's past, carrying a pressing question: if Fascism takes over your country, do you stay, or do you try to flee? And what happens if you can’t?

You’re about to hear a preview of the first episode of Pack One Bag. After you listen, head to https://lemonada.lnk.to/packonebagfd to hear more.

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0:00.0	Lemonada.
0:02.0	Hey, I'm David Modigiani, popping in here to let you know about a new limited series from Lemonada we think you're going to enjoy.
0:14.0	It's a show I made with Stanley Tucci called Pack One Bag.
0:18.0	And the best way to tell you about it is just to share the trailer with you right now.
0:24.5	When Benito Mussolini led a violent insurrection to take over government buildings across
0:30.2	Italy, he was on his way to becoming a dictator. And eventually his fascist regime went after
0:36.2	people like my family who'd been living there for centuries.
0:40.3	I mean, all of a sudden, we were not safe in our own country.
0:44.6	It was very clear to me it was time to leave.
0:47.7	But my only way out would be to leave my whole family behind.
0:52.2	I mean, do you stay or do you flee?
0:56.2	Stay or flee?
0:58.1	My name is David Modigiani, and that's the question at the heart of my new limited series
1:03.0	podcast, Pack One Bag.
1:05.4	The show centers on my grandfather, my non-no-franco.
1:09.0	One day, he'd win the Nobel Prize, but back in 1938, he was just a
1:14.0	20-year-old kid in Rome. And when Mussolini passed racial laws against Jews like him,
1:20.0	he didn't know what to do. But I was in love with this girl from Bologna.
1:25.5	Franco, I have a name, Serena, that's me.
1:28.0	And her parents have been moving money outside the country.
1:31.3	In case we had to flee.
1:33.0	But escaping with them would mean leaving his whole family to face the nightmare that was coming.
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