Beha was born in
Florence, and began work as a journalist in 1973 for the sports newspaper
Tuttosport and for
Paese Sera. During his stay in Madrid, he graduated and also practiced athletics for
Real Madrid. From 1976 to 1985, he worked for the left-oriented newspaper
La Repubblica, dealing with sport and social themes, and wrote articles for several editions of the
Olympic Games. In 1984, he published a report in which the result of the football match between Italy and Cameroon in the
1982 Football World Cup had been decided between the players before playing. After working also for the newspaper
Rinascita,
Il Messaggero and
Il Mattino (Beha later worked also for the right-wing ''
L'Indipendente), in 1987, he began hosting the TV show Va' pensiero'', together with Communist journalist
Andrea Barbato. The show was aired on
Rai 3 and lasted until 1989. In the following years, Beha provided TV specials about Italian and international themes for Italian state television, mostly for
Rai 3, and hosted the show
Un terno al lotto (1991) in which people seeking and offering jobs could met freely. The following year Beha launched
Radio Zorro, a daily radio show aired on
Radio Rai. The show, later rechristened
Radio Zorro 3131, was cancelled in 2004, a period in which the right government coalition led by
Silvio Berlusconi controlled Rai; the closure was followed by a series of legal suits by Beha against Rai. Beha also wrote several books, including essays and poetry collections, which won several Italian literary prizes. Among his numerous activities in the 2000s, Beha has also written for the left newspaper ''
L'Unità (2005–2008), and was a co-founder of Il Fatto Quotidiano'' in 2009. He died in
Rome on 13 May 2017, aged 68. == References ==