Voice of Greece

Each weekly is a tribute to a contemporary poet from Greece or the Greek Diaspora.The poets recite their poems themselves, along with an original live music background. Giorgos Veis is the Poet of the Week 21.08.2023 - 27.08.2023 Giorgos Veis was born in Athens in 1955. Ambassador ad honorem....

In the 70s, in the village Pyrgos of Tinos island, a sculpture student opens the “pirate” amateur radio station "Unknown X". How many different music genres can possibly fit into a single music show? How can song dedications to people over the radio lead to fights and breakups? And how unknown was "Un...

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...

Each weekly is a tribute to a contemporary poet from Greece or the Greek Diaspora.The poets recite their poems themselves, along with an original live music background. Giorgos Veis is the Poet of the Week 21.08.2023 - 27.08.2023 Giorgos Veis was born in Athens in 1955. Ambassador ad honorem....

Each weekly is a tribute to a contemporary poet from Greece or the Greek Diaspora.The poets recite their poems themselves, along with an original live music background. Panos Kyparissis is the Poet of this Week Panos Kyparissis was born in Oxya, Ioannina. He studied Mathematics and Literature...

In the middle of the 16th century, the painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos, who would later become widely known as El Greco, painted an icon of the Virgin Mary in Crete. Wars, revolutions, massacres, and persecutions followed. People fled, taking this icon with them across the Aegean, and the identity...

The bronze parts were sold, the bridge was torn to pieces, the gunpowder has become fireworks for children... Zannakis Kalamaras recounts what happened to the wreck of the ELLI, which was torpedoed on Tinos by an Italian submarine on August 15, 1940. Narrator: Zannakis KalamarasInterview...

Each weekly is a tribute to a contemporary poet from Greece or the Greek Diaspora.The poets recite their poems themselves, along with an original live music background. Panos Kyparissis is the Poet of this Week Panos Kyparissis was born in Oxya, Ioannina. He studied Mathematics and Literature...

In the summer of 1944, in Nice, while the local collaborators of the Germans carry out indiscriminate arrests and executions, the birth of a child saves the life of a resistance fighter. A short time later, at the Kokkinia roadblock, Greek traitors lead hundreds of patriots to their death. Interviewee:...

Each weekly is a tribute to a contemporary poet from Greece or the Greek Diaspora.The poets recite their poems themselves, along with an original live music background. Panos Kyparissis is the Poet of this Week Panos Kyparissis was born in Oxya, Ioannina. He studied Mathematics and Literature...