A podcast where artists and artisans tell their stories through the materials they choose

Sarah Monk meets artists and artisans near Pietrasanta in northern Italy. Generations of artists have come to work here after Michelangelo first arrived over 500 years ago to choose marble for his Pietà.

A woman with long braids poses between two red stone sculptures of stylised faces, one rough-hewn and one polished, displayed outdoors.

Yemisi Wilson, episode 71, photo: Philip Laurell

Franco Casoni sculpting a small head of a child in a workshop

Franco Casoni intagliatore, nel suo laboratorio a Chiavari. Puntata 70 del podcast in italiano

Franco Casoni in his workshop in Chiavari, he is an intagliatore (woodcarver), episode 70 (in Italian)

Pollès, episode 69, video only