Between 1960 and 1968 RAI aired Non è Mai Troppo Tardi (It is Never too Late), a show aimed at fighting illiteracy, as more than 10% of the Italian Population was still, at the beginning of the 1960s, unable to read and write.
Alberto Manzi was a pedagogue, a writer and, above all, an elementary school teacher: he was the one who, with success, hosted the show, teaching lessons that went well beyond the alphabet and that are still extraordinarily relevant today.