The great interpreter of Greek folk music was a landmark figure, a beacon of artistic expression and life. With her unique personality, she managed to convey hardships, wounds, and "miracles" alike, as well as the human need to endure everyday life through song.
"Our Town" takes listeners on a journey into the golden age of "Theatre on EIR". Writer Elena Kamilari, author of a book inspired by the program, joins host Themis Rodamitis to share stories about the unique bond between theatre and radio. Together, they explore how this program educated and inspired, capturing the magic of live studio performances and the art of radio theatre.
“Our Town” presents a special tribute to the Greek Film Archive, with guest Maria Komninos, Professor and Chair of the Board.
Maria Komninos traces the history of the Archive and talks about the crucial work of digitally restoring films, a process that safeguards landmark works by leading cre...
Giorgos Chatzipieris, the creator of highly acclaimed children’s songs with millions of views, talks about his work and his successful project “The Lazy Dragon and Other Stories”, which marked the beginning of building his own personal universe - a world full of imagination, colors, exceptional music...
Benakis, Sinas, Maraslis, Zarifis, Zographos, the Archigenis couple, the Satrapes couple: figures whose public image has been etched into collective memory through the often converging, sometimes diverging perspectives of those who studied their lives.
Inspired by the photo-album book “The L...
The talented composer and songwriter Christos Gkontzos talks about his three publishing projects, what inspires him and his interesting collaborations.
He discusses social issues but also fear, guilt, friendship, love, as well as the younger generations of musicians and the roots of Greek song.
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On Sunday, 07 September 2025, at 12:00 Athens time, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mikis Theodorakis, the program "Our Town" on Voice of Greece will present songs by the great composer, re-imagined by Greek performers and arrangers.
The broadcast highlights how a younger...
One of the most important Greek poets, prose writers, photographers, psychoanalysts, and introducers of surrealism in Greece, Andreas Embirikos left his mark on Greek poetry and thought with his pioneering and daring voice.
Jacques Bouchard, a leading Hellenist and professor of Modern Greek literature...
On Sunday, 07 September 2025, at 12:00 Athens time, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mikis Theodorakis, the program "Our Town" on Voice of Greece will present songs by the great composer, re-imagined by Greek performers and arrangers.
The broadcast highlights how a younger...
"Our Town” with Themis Rodamitis showcases the 9th International Kalamata Music Days festival.
Guest on the program are composer and pianist Stathis Gyftakis, founding member of the festival and Artistic Director of the Kalamata Municipal Conservatory. He shares the vision and philosophy behind...
On Sunday, 31 August 2025, Voice of Greece’s program “Our Town” presents “The Universal Mikis”— a creator who was recognized and honored across the globe by millions who saw in him a human symbol of world peace and culture.
The episode will feature Mikis Theodorakis’ film music for int...
On Saturday, 30 August 2025, Voice of Greece’s program “Our Town” with Themis Rodamitis hosted Betty Harlafti. The distinguished interpreter of Mikis Theodorakis spoke about the grand concert for world peace, in which she is participating as a guest of the renowned composer Zülfü Livaneli, in Miletus ...
“Our Town” presents the second part of the tribute to the musical collaboration of Theodorakis and Lagios.
The two composers were friends, lived in the same neighborhood “in the shadow of the Acropolis,” and shared similar musical and aesthetic tastes. Between them, there was mutual respect, love, ad...
“Our Town” presents a tribute to the “Greek summer.”
The show explores the uniqueness of the Greek summer, how it is experienced over time, and the elements that make it a natural, enjoyable, and distinctive “universe.”The summer as experienced by foreign travelers, philhellenes, notable personalities...
This episode of “Our Town” showcases special interpretive moments of Mikis Theodorakis.
The great composer uniquely performed some of his own songs — in concerts, in the studio, with small or large orchestras, and at times on the historic piano in Nea Smyrni.The broadcast features some of the fine...
Mikis Theodorakis and Dimitris Lagios. The two composers were friends, lived in the same neighborhood “in the shadow of the Acropolis,” and shared common musical and aesthetic tastes. Between them there was esteem, love, admiration, and companionship.
Both cherished poets, setting their verses to ...
The charismatic and much-loved composer and violin soloist Nikos Oikonomidis speaks about the panigyri (traditional village festival) as he has experienced it for years, especially on the small and picturesque islands.
The guest reflects on his acclaimed and extensive discography, as well as on his...
The debut author Valerie Angelou talks about her historical novel “Buana.” A well-documented and captivating story that speaks about the natives of the Belgian Congo, but also about those who had lived through the “stone years” of the Italian occupation in Rhodes. The program also makes references to Valerie Angelou’s role as a therapist, in ... Read more
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