Natasa Vissarionos

In the first hour, we welcomed Ourania Margomenou, who organizes group tours, to talk about wine tourism ahead of World Wine Tourism Day on Sunday, 8 November. We explored wine routes, met the people behind the wines through their stories, and discussed how a visit to a vineyard or a glass of local...

Author Stelios Karagiannopoulos joined “Faraway Words” by phone from his home in Brussels to discuss his book Survival: Refugees and Workers in the 20th Century. Told in the style of a novel, the book grew out of extensive research that took him through archives, family memories, and the places whe...

Cologne-based double bassist Athina Kontou joined Natasa Vissarionos in the Voice of Greece studio to talk about her musical career and her band, Mother, which blends traditional Greek music with contemporary jazz. The band’s debut album, Tzivaeri, was nominated for the German Record Critics’ Awa...

To mark International Xinomavro Day, celebrated every year on 1 November, the program devoted a short feature to this important Greek grape variety. Alexandros Triantafyllou, a sommelier with extensive experience in Greece’s hospitality and wine sectors, joined us in the studio to discuss Xinomavro. H...

Στο στούντιο της "Φωνής της Ελλάδας" βρέθηκε ο Αριστείδης Franc, γραμματέας στο γενικό προξενείο του Μπρνο και εκπρόσωπος του ελληνοτσεχικού επιμελητηρίου, γεννημένος στην Τσεχία από Ελληνίδα μητέρα και Τσέχο πατέρα. Στην εκπομπή μίλησε για την παροικία μας στο Μπρνο και στην Τσεχία γενικότερα. Όπως α...

Award-winning author and translator Persa Koumoutsi joined “Faraway Words” to discuss her latest book, “Η τελευταία συνάντηση ή Απολείπειν ο θεός Κωνσταντίνον”. Co-written with acclaimed playwright Panagiotis Mentis, this theatrical monologue centers on Constantine Cavafy, the Alexandrian poet, i...

The program welcomed Elena Piperidou, a teacher and cultural activities coordinator at SAHETI School in Johannesburg. As she explained, 60% of the school’s students are of Greek heritage. Many families from other language backgrounds also choose SAHETI for its high academic standards. Speaking a...

The program welcomed Vasilis Oikonomidis, a LiFO contributor with many years of experience working in fine-dining restaurants. The conversation focused on the announcement of this year’s Michelin stars for restaurants in Athens, Santorini, and Thessaloniki. In the second hour, chef Kalliopi Bezante j...

The program welcomed Peter Ppiros, president of the Greek Orthodox Community of South Australia, to discuss the Odyssey Greek Festival, which opened on 2 October and runs through 27 November. Ppiros spoke about the festival’s diverse cultural program, describing it as the largest festival of its k...

Eleftheria Sofroniou joined the program to discuss her life in London and the city’s Greek Cypriot diaspora. Sofroniou worked as a journalist for the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC) and Hellenic TV in London, where she also completed her doctorate on the Greek Cypriot diaspora. Her research e...

Just days before this year’s WOMEX in Spain, we welcomed Angeliki Spyridaki, head of Music From Greece, the national music export office, and Thanasis Zikas of Kadinelia, who will represent Greece at the event. The program also featured music by Alkyone and Kadinelia, this year’s Greek representatives at ...

To mark World Food Day on 16 October, we spoke with Paris Papachristos about healthy eating as part of a balanced life. Ioannis Mallios also joined us to discuss the nutritional value of authentic traditional products, including trahanas, hylopites, and pasta shapes such as spirals and small tubes. We...

The program welcomed Thaleia Bousiopoulou, chair of the organizing committee for the 2nd International Conference on Greek Diaspora Theater, to be held at the Hellenic House in Paris from 15 to 17 October 2026. Bousiopoulou discussed the success of the inaugural conference in Brussels and this year’s e...

The program welcomed Ioanna Zacharaki, a woman whose work embodies community service, the spirit of the Greek diaspora, and humanitarian values. She spoke with Natasa Vissarionos on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Academy of Values, the educational institution she founded in Germany to...

We traveled to the vineyards of Messinia to discover the Fileri grape variety. Nikos Loukakis, principal of the WSPC Sommelier Academy, joined us in the Voice of Greece studio to discuss Fileri. Drawing on his extensive experience as a sommelier and in the restaurant industry, he also shared his views...

“Faraway Words” welcomed author Marilli Diamanti for a conversation about her historical narrative “Argonaut, in the Depths of the Earth.” Drawing on extensive research into archives, immigrant lists, and forgotten documents, the book traces the life of her great-grandfather Panagis, who came fr...

The program welcomed Triantafyllos Kotopoulos, Professor of Creative Writing and Modern Greek Literature and Director and Academic Coordinator of the Master’s Program in Creative Writing. The occasion for the conversation was the 7th International Creative Writing Conference, which will take place i...

Joining us in the Voice of Greece studio were: Amalia Papagiannopoulou, an agronomist, educator, and specialist in wine tourism strategy and experience design, who spoke about “Wine Tourism in Practice,” the new program offered by the University of West Attica’s Center for Continuing Education and L...