The program "Remarkable Personalities" with Stavroula Karali welcomes Beatrice Saias-Magrizou, author of the book The Fire Bracelet, for a deeply human conversation about memory, loss, and the duty to preserve historical truth.
At the heart of the discussion is the true story of the Jewish Saias...
“Sound Portraits” with Stavroula Karali presents a special tribute to Pontic Hellenism, marking the Remembrance Day of the Pontic Greek Genocide with an evening dedicated to history, memory, and music. The program journeys to Pontus, where for centuries a vibrant Greek civilization flourished, deeply rooted in history, faith, and tradition. Through narration, historical accounts, and emblematic songs, listeners follow the course of a people from prosperity and creativity to persecution, uprooting, and genocide. The tribute highlights defining aspects of Pontic history and identity: the Byzantine tradition, Orthodoxy, the Monastery of Soumela, the central role of the mother figure in the Pontic family, ... Read more
Archaeologist and Honorary Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Achaia, Anita Koumousi, is featured in “Remarkable Personalities” with Stavroula Karali Marking 29 May 1453, the day Constantinople fell, the program presents a special tribute to Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Byzantine emper...
“Sound Portraits” with Stavroula Karali presents a special tribute to Pontic Hellenism, marking the Remembrance Day of the Pontic Greek Genocide with an evening dedicated to history, memory, and music. The program journeys to Pontus, where for centuries a vibrant Greek civilization flourished, deeply rooted in history, faith, and tradition. Through narration, historical accounts, and emblematic songs, listeners follow the course of a people from prosperity and creativity to persecution, uprooting, and genocide. The tribute highlights defining aspects of Pontic history and identity: the Byzantine tradition, Orthodoxy, the Monastery of Soumela, the central role of the mother figure in the Pontic family, ... Read more
Konstantinos Tsahouridis — artist, researcher, and academic — is the featured guest on Voice of Greece’s weekly program “Remarkable Personalities”. Speaking with Stavroula Karali, he reflects on the Pontus of memory and the heart in a program dedicated to the history and culture of Pontic Hellenism, w...
“Sound Portraits” with Stavroula Karali presents a special tribute to Pontic Hellenism, marking the Remembrance Day of the Pontic Greek Genocide with an evening dedicated to history, memory, and music.
The program journeys to Pontus, where for centuries a vibrant Greek civilization flo...
Journalist and author Vasilis Tzanakaris from Serres speaks about the heroine of his book, Amalia — a real person, a woman who experienced displacement, poverty and war. A woman from Smyrna who, through a harsh life journey stretching from the Asia Minor coast to interwar Athens and postwar Thessaloniki, r...
“Sound Portraits” with Stavroula Karali followed the rhythm of Eurovision, tracing Greece’s journey in the contest from Marinella in 1974 to the present day. In the second part of the tribute, the program unfolds Greece’s course in the competition, featuring major successes as well as moments that sp...
Spyros Tzokas—academic, author, and former mayor of Kaisariani—is featured on the Voice of Greece program “Remarkable Personalities”, hosted by Stavroula Karali.
Drawing on his books “The Cycle of Futile Acts” (Evmaros Publications) and “One Long Night” (Synchroni Epohi Publicati...
“Sound Portraits”, presented by Stavroula Karali, tunes into the rhythm of Eurovision. From Marinella and Greece’s first participation in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 to the present day, the program traces the country’s journey in the contest: major successes, talked-about moments, withdraw...
This episode of “Sound Portraits” with Stavroula Karali is dedicated to the life and work of Eftychia Papagiannopoulou — a woman who transformed her personal pain into song; a woman who lived intensely and left behind lyrics that have stood the test of time.
Born in Aydın, Asia Minor, Papagian...
“Remarkable Personalities” turns to April 1941 and Greece’s northern front, where one of the most dramatic—and at the same time heroic—chapters of modern Greek history unfolded: the Battle of the Metaxas Line.
Konstantinos Lagos, Professor of Air Force History at the Hellenic Air Force...
“Sound Portraits” with Stavroula Karali presents a special tribute to the great laïko composer and songwriter Akis Panou—a journey through music and storytelling. The program sheds light on lesser-known aspects of his life: the profound impact of his brother’s loss, his deep connection to laïko music, hi...
Archimandrite Filotheos Dedes, Director of Church Construction at the Holy Synod and cleric of the Archdiocese of Athens, reflects on one of the most dramatic and theologically profound nights of the Christian tradition. At the heart of the discussion lies the Last Supper—the final gathering of Christ w...
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 Athens, examines the deeply subversive dimension of Christ’s teaching—one that directly challenged the established orde...
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 the Divine Drama, the Passion, the Crucifixion, and t...
Menios Sakellaropoulos has been honored four times by the Panhellenic Association of Sports Press and received the Botsis Award in 2004. The acclaimed journalist steps away from sports news to share a deeply human story—the story of Soultana, the heroine of his book “Soultana: I Loved One Man” (Psyc...
The program “Sound Portraits” with Stavroula Karali sets sail on the seas of Nikos Kavvadias, in a special tribute to the poet who transformed the language of sailors into poetry and song.
Words such as karanti, traverso, vatsimanis, and pataratso come alive through lyrics and melodies, revealing a w...
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