CULTURE

“Our Town” with Themis Rodamitis presents an episode titled “Songs and Hymns from East and West.” Guest in the studio, Fenia Papadodima speaks about the devotional element as expressed across different countries of the Mediterranean. The program features songs that trace the passage of time from as...

“Ariadni’s Thread” welcomes Kostas Konstantatos for a special episode—an encounter between art and faith.The artist sets aside his role as a musician with Encardia and Alcedo Folk Band to speak with us about his work in iconography. He shares how Southern Italian and broader Mediterranean influences ha...

Alternative sound meets contemplation through songs—“hymns” specially selected for Holy Week. The mystical atmosphere of the Easter period comes to life through iconic poems and prose by Greek writers on the theme of Easter, some of them rendered through the voice of 12-year-old Kostis. From Nick ...

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...

The Vougiouklis sisters return to “Our Town” to travel across regions of Hellenism and beyond, exploring emblematic melodies from the international repertoire. Often described as “priestesses of multiculturalism,” they perform in more than 20 languages and dialects, exploring the expressive potential o...

Past. Present. Future. And back again to the past. Three women. Shadow women. Women of thought. And a girl. Dead. Alive. Fernando Pessoa’s “The Mariner” unfolds as a torrent of associations—or rather, a cry of anguish. Here, words, faces, thoughts, mirrors, and landscapes plunge into the vast an...

On “Musical Horizons,” hosted by Maria Reboutsika, we had the opportunity to travel to a world where music meets sensitivity and giving. We heard Natalie Sellinidou speak about the unique Cat Festival—an event dedicated to stray cats, adoption, and unconditional love. Joining her was Alexis Kosta...

Eleni Vougiouklis and Souzana Vougiouklis guide listeners into a rich sonic landscape of traditional hymns, gospel and ritual laments from Greece and around the world. Drawing on their own research and storytelling, they create a deeply atmospheric experience where two voices—resonant like an ancient pr...

A few weeks ago, one of the most significant trials in modern Greek history—the Golden Dawn case—reached its conclusion.  The Five-Member Court of Appeal for Felonies largely upheld the first-instance sentences, reaffirming the criminal nature of the...

The music-theatre performance “The Scarlet Letter” is a poignant artistic tribute to the life and sacrifice of Evagoras Pallikaridis—the young Cypriot poet and freedom fighter who came to embody the struggle for liberty. Through the directorial and musical vision of its creator, Salina Gavala, the p...

Noctourism, calmcations, travel and AI, the return of the holiday romance, off-the-beaten-track destinations going mainstream, coolcations and off-season safaris… In this episode, we suggest travel destinations that are different, atmospheric and slightly beyond the usual: from the most unusual t...

On the 02 April 2026 broadcast, marking International Children’s Book Day, Vasia Tzanakari welcomed journalist Zoe Koskinidou, creator of the online magazine for children’s and young adult books “Kokkini Alepou” (Red Fox). The discussion explored what—and how—children and teenagers read today, touc...

And… the new work by director Stathis Reppas is outstanding… “A groussa namou ‘Ena panaitthouri annoitthé’” is the title of his film—in Tsakonian! In his latest film, the experienced director focuses on the effort to preserve and highlight the history of the Tsakonian dialect, following its traces wit...

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 traveled between Paris and Athens, bringing into the studio the driving force behind Librairie grecque Desmos, Giannis Mavroeidakos, who for more than four decades has been promoting Greek literature in the heart of the French capital. Mr. Mavroeidakos traced the history of Desmos, a...

The talented singer, percussionist, and composer of partly Greek origin speaks about her diverse musical activities and presents her live album “Spiti – Home”, a musical work created across cultures, languages, and landscapes. Having grown up between Mykonos, Kautokeino in Lapland, and later Trondheim, Maria...

A different kind of journey—beyond maps and the labels of a “destination”—unfolded in the Voice of Greece program hosted by Katerina Batzaki on Monday, 30 March 2026. Karpathos emerged not as a place to visit, but as an experience to be lived—an island that resists the passage of time, preservin...