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Program name: Braccio di Ferro Year of broadcast: 1993-1994 Network: Canale 5 (Mediaset) Genre of political talk show: Puro Description of the format. Braccio di Ferro is a “face to face” in which the main political leaders confront each other, answering questions from journalists from the main national newspapers. The host takes on a mediation role similar to that exercised in Tribuna Electorale in the Sixties rather than that which emerged in programs such as Bontà loro or Samarcanda. Braccio di Ferro is one of the programs that accompany Italian politics towards a process of personalization, a direct consequence of the reform of the electoral law of 1993. Date of the episode: 22 March 1994 Description of the episode. Enrico Mentana, host of the program, moderates the face to face between Silvio Berlusconi (candidate of the Polo delle Libertà/Polo del Buongoverno) and Achille Occhetto (leader of the center-left coalition). (taken from: Edoardo Novelli, “The democracy of the talk show”, Carocci Editore, Rome, 2016)