Freedom of speech is an essential element of democracy. In our contemporary democracies, is there space for the practical exercise of such an inviolable right or is its guarantee a utopian constitutional ideal? In 2002, pirate local TV stations started to spring up across Italy, in response to the lack of public television and the oligarchic control over this most powerful medium. Interferenze is the intriguing story of what became known as the Telestreet network. It is told through the personal experience of the members of Orfeo TV, the pirate station that initiated the movement. The programme is part of an international project called Why Democracy?
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