Flavor of Italy podcast

In the case of church bells in Rome it's unlikely there's anyone ringing the bells up in the bell tower because almost all Roman churches now have an automated bell ringing system.
34 year old Giacomo Diano is one of the last remaining impassioned bell ringers (known as a campanaro) in Rome. He's had a passion for church bells, bell towers and bell ringing since he was a toddler. When he reached school-age Giacomo made sure that his mom took him to school along routes where he could hear his favorite church bells chime.
These days Giacomo is the leading expert in Rome on all of Rome’s various church bells, how to repair and “tune” them and of course how to ring them...