On Tuesday, February 13th, Voice of Greece celebrates World Radio Day by adapting its program to honor one of the world’s most beloved means of communication and entertainment a, through important interviews with radio people from Greece and around the world.
At 9 am, on “Time in Greece” with Nikos Angelidis, an excerpt from a special radio recording of Aristophanes’ performance “Plutus” will be broadcast from the historical archive of ERT Radio.
At 12 noon, on the show “Faraway Words“, the guest of Natasa Vissarionos is the radio producer and musician Odysseas Krypotos, with extensive experience in the community radios of Australia. He will talk about the contribution of Diaspora Greek radio stations to Diaspora Hellenism. The head of Greek Diaspora Melbourne Radio 3xY, Spyros Alatsas, will also speak.
At 1 p.m., on “Hellenes everywhere” with Thanasis Houpis, the journalist Depy Nikolopoulou is a guest. Since 1975 and for about twenty years, she presented and edited the show “The Radio Mail of Voice of Greece: You ask us, we answer you”, which was the first broadcast communicating with Greeks abroad and Greek seafarers.
Shortly after 4 pm, Petros Diplas and Dimitris Kontogiannis host Stelios Papathanasopoulos, professor of media organization and policy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, who will talk about the history of radio and its importance. Also, Angeliki Gazi, assistant professor of Digital Methods at Panteion University, will refer to the new trends in radio, technological and social media.
Immediately afterwards, at 17:00, in honor of World Radio Day, Giannis Papoutsakis’ show “Journeys Basking in Greek Light” presents a tribute to the contribution of Radio to the dissemination of Theatre, with audio excerpts from historical plays presented in the 50s and 60s in texts by Lorca, Tennessee Williams, Skouloudis, Pretenderis, Patatzis, etc., with the voices of Elli Lambeti, Dimitris Horn, Eleni Chatziargiri, Vasso Manolidou, Mimis Fotopoulos, Tzeni Karezi, Manos Katrakis, Anna Synodinou, Melina Mercouri and other acclaimed actors.
At 8 p.m. on World Radio Day, Antonis Karagiannakis hosts on “Fair Winds and Following Seas” Thanasis Zisimopoulos, founder of the New York radio station “Cosmos FM”, Stelios Taketzis, current director of the station, and from Patras, radio producer Takis Niaras.
Finally, excerpts from ERT documentaries on the history of radio in Greece, selected by Ariadni Sofia Kouri, have already been posted on the social media pages of Voice of Greece.
