On Saturday, 17 January 2026, from 12:00 to 13:00, the Voice of Greece program “Our Town” welcomes director Thanos Nikas and actress Evgenia Kouzeli. The director and the actress talk about the theatrical production Sladek, which explores political drama and highlights that fascism is not a thing of the past, but a persistent and timeless danger—one that always finds ways to return.
In an in-depth discussion about violence, fear, war, and ultimately fascism, the two artists explain that Sladek is set during the Interwar period and the Great Depression, when inflation, unemployment, hunger, poverty, and homelessness ravaged Germany, impoverishing society and creating fertile ground for extremist political forces such as the Nazi Party to win over the hearts of the defeated and the poor.
Turning to the present, they speak with Themis Rodamitis about contemporary parallels: online hate speech, the impoverishment of language, femicides, xenophobia, homophobia, and both television and internet populism—elements that together form what Umberto Eco famously described as “eternal fascism.”
Produced and presented by Themis Rodamitis
Broadcast: Saturday, 17 January 2026, 12:00–13:00 (Athens time) — with a repeat from 01:00–02:00.
