Luciano Rispoli

Luciano Rispoli (12 July 1932 – 26 October 2016) was an Italian television and radio writer and presenter.

Born in Reggio Calabria, the son of a colonel, Rispoli moved to Rome to study law at the Sapienza University, but before graduating, he passed an audition by Vittorio Veltroni to join the newly created RAI in 1954.

A founding father of Italian public television, he conceived and hosted the first TV talk show ever broadcast in Italy - L'ospite delle 2 in 1975 -[1] while his Pranzo in TV was the first Italian dinner talk, in 1983.

From the 1970s on, he was gradually more active as a TV presenter, getting a personal success as host and author of a quiz show about Italian language, Parola mia (1985–88).

[5][6] In 1991 Rispoli left RAI and moved to Telemontecarlo, where he hosted the music show La più bella sei tu (1991-2) and Tappeto volante, a long-running talk show broadcast on Telemontecarlo between 1993 and 2000, and later moved to other networks until 2009.