Italy, the city of Bologna, 1918.

Those screams are the desperate pleas to get oxygen equipment to the victims of an explosion

that has moments earlier torn apart the main railway station at rush hour.

I wasn't there, but I remember it all too well.

It was the worst atrocity in a period of domestic terrorist attacks in Italy.

85 civilians died.

And 40 years on, you'd have thought that all those responsible for it would have been caught

by now.

Right?

There's suspicions that certain people in the government were using the mafia as a sort

of bridge to contact terrorist groups.

So everything was going on behind the scenes.

Four decades on, and no real closure.

Then, in early 2021, a story breaks, a story that links one of Italy's most celebrated

food critics and restaurant guide authors to that apporning crime.

He said it's incredible to think that a man that I've discussed tally-a-tally dishes

with could have planned the death of 85 people.

You're listening to stories of our times and the times and the Sunday times.

I'm David Aronovitch, today for the Rico Umberto Dammato, from Spine to Murderer to Gastronome.

I'm Tom Kington, I'm the Italy correspondent at the Times, I'm based in Rome, I've been here

for a number of years, and currently waiting on the end of the Covid second wave, which

may be about to take off again thanks to the UK variant, which is now seeping down from

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