Voice of Greece

In 2009 Anna Ellis visited Zitsa, a small village in western Greece, while couchsurfing with her sister. There she met their host, Kostas, the village’s baker. She spent only 24 hours there, but it changed her life forever. Interviewee: Anna EllisInterview by: Giannis Koutroudis, Sofia P...

Every morning she wakes up thinking about what recipes she is going to make, about what she has to offer. She has catered for Presidents such as Obama and Biden, as well as homeless people during the pandemic.Chef Maria Loi began cooking from a young age at her hometown, a little village of Aetoloakarnania, ...

When his fishing boat runs adrift due to a mechanical failure, Giannis Bardanis finds himself lost at sea into the troubled waves of the Aegean. Interviewee: Giannis BardanisField Researcher: Efthymia PapagiannopoulouPodcast Creation: Stavros VlachosSound Recording: Dimitris PaleogiannisSound...

Syrna is a small barren island in the middle of the Aegean, where a great chapter of history has been written. Eleni Sapsakou-Metaksotou, the offspring of the only family who inhabited the island at the time, remembers when allied ships and submarines took refuge there, the German troopers and the rescuing...

His voice brings back childhood memories: Akindynos Gkikas is the man who gave substance to the Smurfs, Thundercats' Lion-O, Winnie the Pooh and many more classic characters from kids' TV shows in the '90s.The Greek actor is now offering us a tour into the magical world of voice acting. Interviewee:...

Voice of Greece radio presents a major tribute to Maria Callas, on the occasion of the centennial anniversary of her birth (included in UNESCO's list of anniversary celebrations for the year 2023.)It is a collaboration between ERT’s International Program Department, the General Secretariat for Greeks A...

The only thing Karin knew about her origin was that she had been adopted from Greece in 1963, after being found on the doorstep of an orphanage in Athens. That was until she started looking for the true story behind her adoption. Karin never expected what she would discover. Interviewee:...

In Salamis in the 1950s, the father of a young girl discovers his daughter is secretly dating her neighbor and demands that they get married immediately. In the middle of the argument, she takes her beloved and they leave. Narrator: The narrator has asked to be pseudonymized Researcher:...

During the construction of the Athens metro, the skull of a child who lost her life in the plague of the 5th century BC is discovered. Based on this skull, Professor Manolis Papagrigorakis, who was researching what ancient Greeks looked like, begins the reconstruction of the face of the little Athenian,...