Seven poems each week—one Greek poem every day—travel across the frequencies of Voice of Greece, reaching the far corners of the world wherever Greek voices are heard. The week from 13 to 19 April 2026 is dedicated to the poet Charalambos Giannakopoulos.
Charalambos Giannakopoulos was born in Ath...
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In the Easter Sunday edition of "Ariadni's Thread", on Sunday 12 April 2026 at 18:00 (Athens time), we set the scene for a joyful radio gathering filled with music, high spirits, and the aromas of Greece. Raise a glass of ouzo and join us for an uplifting musical celebration with Stavros Tsantes and...
On Easter Sunday, 12 April 2026, from 16:00 to 18:00 (Athens time), the Voice of Greece program "Our Town" with Themis Rodamitis presents the first part of the tribute titled "Tsitsanis’ Festive Songs".
The tribute features songs by the iconic composer who united generations of Greeks and left a...
On Easter Sunday, 12 April 2026, at 14:00 (Athens time), the program "Laïkoi Dromoi" with Elena Falirea welcomes the band "Oi Acharneis", along with singers Maria Plyta and Kostas Mantzios, at Studio B of Hellenic Radio. Tune in for an enjoyable two-hour show featuring beloved laïko songs, specially d...
This Sunday, 12 April 2026 at 20:00 (Athens time), on Orthodox Easter Sunday, "Infinitely Curious" with Katerina Batzaki travels far beyond Greece — all the way to Australia — in a deeply human exploration of identity, memory and what it truly means to be Greek.
What happens to Easter when it cro...
Holy Wednesday, 08 April 2026
13:00–14:00 | “The Practice of Living” with Nasia Bouloukou The program welcomes Professor Dimitris Linos—Emeritus Professor of Surgery at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Lecturer in Surgery at Har...
On Holy Saturday, 11 April 2026, from 12:00 to 13:00 (Athens time), the Voice of Greece program “Our Town” with Themis Rodamitis presents an episode titled “Songs and Hymns from East and West.”
Guest in the studio, Fenia Papadodima speaks about the devotional element as expressed across different countri...
On Good Friday, the Divine Drama reaches its peak. Just hours before the Epitaph procession, we explore distinctive customs from every corner of Greece.
We will speak about the Epitaph procession in Kaminia, Hydra, with Mayor Giorgos Koukoudakis; about the meeting of the three Epitaphs in Syros with...
Marios Polychronopoulos, a Greek expatriate entrepreneur, spoke about the current situation in Argentina and how the Greek community there is experiencing Orthodox Holy Week.
He shared his insights on Voice of Greece radio, on the program "Our Global Voice" with Dimitris Kontogiannis.
The English-language music program of Voice of Greece, "Greek Music Express" with Hercules Economou, draws a powerful connection between Easter and the sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the 200 Resistance fighters executed in Kaisariani in 1944.
Photographs from their execution were recently...
“I, Polybius of Megalopolis, was born in Megalopolis and lived in the era when the Romans were laying the foundations of their great empire—when they also conquered Greece. When the Romans entered the Peloponnese and took Megalopolis, I was captured and taken as a hostage to Rome. There, I began wri...
On Thursday, 09 April 2026, at 12:00 (Athens time), the program “Imprint” with Fuli Zavitsanou welcomes art historian Faye Tzanetoulakou, on the occasion of the new exhibition “Small Rituals of Spring: A Requiem from the Future”, which she curates at Lofos Art Project (18 April – 01 May 2026).
She discusses...
On Holy Wednesday, 08 April 2026, at 22:00 (Athens time), “Remarkable Personalities” with Stavroula Karali welcomes Professor Efstathios Lianos Liantis, Vice President of the Department of Social Theology and Religious Studies at the School of Theology of the National and Kapodistrian University of ...
On Holy Wednesday, 08 April 2026, at 13:00 (Athens time), the Voice of Greece program “The Practice of Living”, hosted by journalist Nasia Bouloukou, welcomes Professor Dimitris Linos—Emeritus Professor of Surgery at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Lecturer in Su...
On Holy Tuesday, 07 April 2026, at 22:00 (Athens time), Voice of Greece presents a special Holy Week edition of “Sound Portraits”, curated and hosted by Stavroula Karali, exploring the profound unity of theology, poetry, and music.
Tracing the arc of Holy Week—from Holy Monday to the culmination of th...
On Sunday 05 April 2026, from 12:00 to 14:00 (Athens time), the Voice of Greece program “Our Town” with Themis Rodamitis welcomes leading composer Nikos Kypourgos.
In a wide-ranging conversation with Themis Rodamitis, the distinguished and gifted composer and orchestrator reflects on key milestones of his creative journey—from his early years, studies and first musical influences, to his creative relationship with Manos Hadjidakis, the landmark work of “Lillipoupoli”, and the important Song Contests of Corfu and Kalamata.
The guest in th...
On Sunday, 05 April 2026, at 10:00 (Athens time), as part of the series “Greeks Around the World – Greece in Denmark”, hosted by Elina Stamatatou, the guest is Nancy Stefanou.
Nancy Stefanou has been living and working in Denmark for the past four years. She left Greece in 2021, during the COVID...
A few weeks ago, one of the most significant trials in modern Greek history—the Golden Dawn case—reached its conclusion.
The Five-Member Court of Appeal for Felonies largely upheld the first-instance sentences, reaffirming the criminal nature of the...
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