In the Friday show, January 31, 2025, we spoke with Yiannis Theoharopoulos, the father of the tragically lost Hermes, who passed away on January 30, 2022, three years ago, in his father’s arms, helpless after a fall in the Tzoumerka mountains. The aerial rescue was delayed for a whole five hours. Mr. Theoharopoulos discussed the need to complete a search and rescue system, based on Greece’s obligations as a member state of the European Union— a system that had been a government commitment, made in Hermes’ name, a few months after the tragic accident.
Following that, Loukas Apostolidis, lawyer for the families of the victims of the Tempe train tragedy, former MP and Minister in PASOK governments, updated us on the developments in the judicial investigation of the case. He also discussed the political dimension of the issue following the prime minister’s interview and the initiatives taken by the opposition parties.
In the second hour, we opened a communication line with Achilleas Yfantidis, high-performance sports psychologist and scientific collaborator of the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO). He spoke about the serious issue of sports academies dealing with children and teenagers and the coaches they collaborate with. We discussed whether these coaches are adequately trained in psychology and pedagogy, what their behavior should be, and what their priorities should be to ensure that they return children to their families with a well-rounded personality and maturity, rather than as achievement-driven individuals without balance.
In the last segment of the show, the guests in the studio were Michalis Kafantaris, director and screenwriter of the film Behind the Sins, and the leading actress of one of the stories in the film, Kleoniki Demiri, singer and member of the ERT choir. The film tells four stories of women who came from Smyrna to build their lives in the working-class area of Drapetsona during the interwar period. These “sinful” women strive and succeed in overturning the patriarchal standards of the time, as well as the conventional roles portrayed in global cinema through a male-driven lens.