Films and series set in Basilicata. And what the Italian sounds like.

Set in Matera, the series is thick with Lucanian/Materano colouring — interjections, local turns of phrase and address forms from Imma's family, her mother-in-law and local witnesses — but the grammar stays standard and the plot lines are never carried by dialect alone.

Normal conversational speed with bursts of overlap in the family scenes and in arguments with colleagues, but interrogation and courtroom passages are deliberately clear and unhurried.

A Rai prime-time true-crime drama set in Potenza: the Claps family and local witnesses carry a Lucano/southern accent and occasional regional turns of phrase, but grammar and lexicon stay standard throughout.

Normal conversational speed with some overlap in the heated family and police scenes, but delivery is generally deliberate.

Mimmo and especially his grandmother speak thick Romanesco with local grammar and vocabulary rather than accented standard, and the emigrant strand carries Neapolitan, so a learner with standard Italian loses whole exchanges.

Normal conversational speed with some crowding when the grandmother cuts across her grandson or roadside characters pile in, but delivery is generally clear and one speaker at a time.

The De Martino family speaks Italian coloured by Romagnolo — regional lexicon, local interjections and a strong local cadence, especially from Loris — but the grammar stays standard and the racing-world characters speak plain Italian.

Loris talks in fast, jittery, self-interrupting bursts and family arguments run over each other, with clipped radio traffic during the races.

The children and villagers speak heavily southern-accented Italian with scattered local lexicon and interjections, but the grammar stays standard and lines remain followable; the incoming criminals from the north speak plain standard Italian.

Children's exchanges run at normal conversational speed, and the adult scenes in the house rise into shouted, overlapping argument.

An ensemble Roman comedy played in standard Italian with Roman cadence throughout, plus Vincenzo Salemme's Neapolitan-coloured delivery in his strand, but nothing that leaves standard grammar or lexicon.

Comic timing pushes the delivery fast, and the couple and family scenes are full of interruption, talking over each other and rapid-fire retorts.

Set in Matera, the cast speaks standard Italian throughout with southern Lucano accent and only light local colour in family scenes; nothing requires dialect knowledge.

Normal conversational delivery, clearly enunciated for a broad Rai audience, with overlap mostly confined to the heated family arguments.