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For a Handful of Books•Season 17•Episode 5

The Periodic Table (by Primo Levi)

Mar 8, 201457 min

Thanks to "The Periodic Table" by Primo Levi, to "For a Fistful of Books", with Geppi Cucciari and Piero Dorfles, we play with literature and with... chemistry. In fact, the stories in Levi's book, indicated as the best science book ever written, each bear the

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Season 17 Episodes12

Babette's Feast (by Karen Blixen)

A Very Small Bourgeois (by Vincenzo Cerami)

Lady Chatterley's Lover (by David H. Lawrence)

Shining (di Stephen King)

The Periodic Table (by Primo Levi)

Dogs and Wolves (by Irène Némirovsky)

The Capuchin Crypt (by Joseph Roth)

The Queen Reader (by Alan Bennett)

The Disappearance of Patò (by Andrea Camilleri)

Travels with My Aunt (by Graham Greene)

The Nose (by Nikolai Gogol)

The Adventures of Pinocchio (by Carlo Collodi)

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Piero D'Orfles

Geppi Cucciari

Geppi Cucciari

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Episode Summary

"The Periodic Table (by Primo Levi)" is episode 5 of For a Handful of Books season 17. It aired on March 8, 2014.

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