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Thomas Sideris

Thomas Sideris is an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker. He studied Political Sciences and Public Administration at the Law School of the University of Athens and specialized in the mass media. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Human and Social Geography, and a member of the International Press Institute and the Journalists and Writers’ Foundation, based in New York. He has been honored with the Albert Schweitzer International Organization Award (2017), as well as more than 20 awards at film festivals around the world- including the Torch Award for his film Let Me Breathe (2021) and a distinction from the Botsis Journalism Foundation for The Noose (2018). His shows Unguarded Passage, Greek Communities, and Historia Minimas are broadcast on the Voice of Greece and the First Programme.
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My Uncle Alekos Konstantinidis | 16 May 2025
An untold story is brought to light for the first time in the new radio documentary of the series “Unguarded Passage”. The radio documentary, titled “My Uncle Alekos Konstantinidis”, traces the life and journey in Greece of Pontic refugee Alekos Konstantinidis, leading up to his execution in Kaisari...
20 anti-fascist songs and their stories (Part II)
The radio series “Unguarded Passage” presents a special podcast featuring twenty landmark anti-fascist songs from across Europe — songs that left their mark on history and became inseparably linked to the people’s struggle against the darkness of fascism and Nazism. From the extermination camps of N...
20 anti-fascist songs and their stories (Part I)
The radio series “Unguarded Passage” presents a special podcast featuring twenty landmark anti-fascist songs from across Europe — songs that left their mark on history and became inseparably linked to the people’s struggle against the darkness of fascism and Nazism. From the extermi...
The Day Nazism Was Defeated | 09 May 2025
Eighty years later, the radio series “Unguarded Passage” presents a powerful documentary marking the day Nazism was defeated in Europe — a historic moment of anti-fascist victory over the darkest and bloodiest chapter of the 20th century. The radio documentary will aired on Friday, May 9, 2025, on Vo...
The Assassination of Grigoris Lambrakis and the Deep State | 02 May 2025
The acclaimed radio series “Unguarded Passage” presents a revealing audio documentary on the assassination of Grigoris Lambrakis and the shadowy operations of the deep state behind it. Drawing from documents once sealed in the files of the State Sec...
The Wehrmacht’s invasion of defenseless Athens | 29 Apr. 2025
On April 27, 1941, the Wehrmacht marched into Athens. They found a city emptied of life — streets and squares abandoned, homes tightly shuttered. It was, unmistakably, one of the first great collective acts of spontaneous resistance by the people against the invader. It begins with the unforgettable vo...
From Haidari to Kaisariani: The Execution of 200 Communists on May Day 1944 | 25 Apr. 2025
“Unguarded Passage” presents the documentary episode “From Haidari to Kaisariani: The Execution of 200 Communists on May Day 1944”. In the early hours of May 1, 1944, German military trucks transported 200 communist prisoners from the notorious Nazi detention camp in Haidari to the execu...
“The Dead Brother’s Song” | 18 Apr. 2025 
On Good Friday, 18 April 2025, the radio program “Unguarded Passage” presented a special tribute to the iconic folk ballad The Dead Brother’s Song (Του Νεκρού Αδελφού). The broadcast explores the song’s various versions as they appear in the oral traditions of Greece and the wider Balkan region, in a...
Vasilis Maggos: 26 Years and 65 Days | 11 Apr. 2025
The radio series “Unguarded Passage” presents a radio documentary about a child who unjustly lost his life — a child who, as his teacher says in the audio document that opens the program, “Vasileios Maggos was a child who lived among us for 26 years and 65 days.” A remarkabl...
Unguarded Passage: Turkey – 15 years of political upheaval (Part II) | 04 Apr. 2025
"Unguarded Passage" continues its exploration of human rights violations in Turkey, presenting the second part of its radio documentary on the political upheavals that have shaped the country over the past fifteen years. This installment focuses on three pivotal events: - The death of political prisoner...
Unguarded Passage: Turkey – 15 years of political upheaval | 28 Mar. 2025
Ten years after Turkey’s failed coup attempt, journalist Thomas Sideris unfolds all aspects of the country’s political landscape: from mass purges in the Turkish security forces and military, the dismissal of leftist and Kurdish mayors, to the widespread arrests of journalists and political figures, inc...
Unguarded Passage: Poetry in the Interwar Period _ Maria Polydouri and Anna Akhmatova | 21 Mar. 2025
On Friday, March 21 (World Poetry Day) Thomas Sideris presents a two-part tribute to two of the most significant poets of the interwar period, Maria Polydouri and Anna Akhmatova, as part of the radio series “Unguarded Passage” The first part, titled “Life, how did you surrender me with a kiss...
Unguarded Passage: Victoria Benouzilio -The hidden child of war | 14 Mar. 2025
A historian and a bottle of ouzo at a family table in Switzerland. The A. Bourla Brothers Distillery on Victor Hugo Street 3 in Thessaloniki. A two-year-old girl suddenly left alone in her home in Athens when Greek policemen, collaborators of the Nazis, arrest her mother. A family, that of Stavros Ch....
International Women’s Day: Maria Roussou on “Unguarded Passage” | 07 Mar. 2025
The radio series “Unguarded Passage” honors International Women’s Day with a special episode dedicated to an exceptional woman, Maria Roussou, director of the Public Library of Lefkada. Her journey led her from East to West, as she moved from Samos to Lefkada in the early 1990s. Tirel...
“Unguarded Passage” for Tempi | 28 Feb. 2025
The radio series "Unguarded Passage" opened the Tempi case in its own way, documenting, through multiple connections with European cities and capitals, the mobilizations of Greeks demanding full transparency in the investigation of the causes of the railway tragedy—now labeled as a crime—and the del...
Unguarded Passage: “The Brutalist” _ The real heroes behind the cinematic ones | 21 Feb. 2025
Inspired by the Hollywood epic The Brutalist and its stunning 70mm cinematography by Laurie Crowley—utilizing the Vista method discovered by Paramount in 1954 and the 1.85:1 format—the radio documentary series Unguarded Passage brings to the airwaves of Voice of Greece a doc...
Unguarded Passage: A linguistic and historical journey through the dialects of Thrace | 07 Feb. 2024
On the occasion of World Greek Language Day and the recognition of the fundamental role that the Greek language has played throughout the centuries, the radio series “Unguarded Passage” presents a unique radio documentary on the dialects of Thrace on Voice of Greece. The documentary explores the hist...
Unguarded Passage: The Miracle of Amarandos – The testimony of 97-year-old Victor Venouziou (Part II) | 31 Jan. 2025
The “Unguarded Passage” series brings to light the rescue of the Jews of Karditsa by the residents of the village Mastrogannis (Amarandos), in the Agrafa mountains, during the German occupation. This untold story will unfold in a two-part radio documentary airing on Friday, January 24,...
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