Culture

Grigoris Rentis, director of the documentary film “Dogwatch”, is the guest on this episode of 'Saturday Shift', Saturday's special edition of the show ''Fair Winds and Following Seas'' with Antonis Karagiannakis. “Dogwatch”, his debut feature film, has made an excellent run at international festiva...

The show "Imprint" with Fuli Zavitsanou, meets the historian and head of publications of the Benaki Museum, Dimitris Arvanitakis, on the occasion of the conference "MARIO VITTI NEO-HELLENIST", organized by the Benaki Museum in collaboration with the Laboratory of Modern Greek Studies Myrsini Zorba of...

George Siougas was born in Athens. Knowing that he would follow a film directing career from the age of 17, he studied at the prestigious London Film School in England, where he directed 5 short films that competed in more than 30 international short film festivals. His impressive CV includes other...

Giannis Papoutsakis' show "Journeys Basking in Greek Light" presents a tribute to the contribution of Radio to the dissemination of Theatre, with audio excerpts from historical plays presented in the 50s and 60s in texts by Lorca, Tennessee Williams, Skouloudis, Pretenderis, Patatzis, etc., with the...

Sundays have long had their own special color! This episode of "Journeys Basking in Greek Light" is dedicated to Sundays. Through poems by Ritsos, Seferis, Vrettakos, Anagnostakis, Karouzos, Dimoula, Prévert and Hikmet, texts by Georgousopoulos and songs with the voices of Kazantzidis, Bithikotsis, ...

This Sunday, the show "Greece in Luxembourg" presents a tribute to cultural associations of Greek interest operating in Luxembourg.Makis Sipetzis, based on his research and the available data from the internet, refers (in random order) to the components and main actions of the following Greek cultural...

This episode of "Remarkable Personalities" is dedicated to the International Greek Language Day. Antonia Papazoglou, Director of the Greek Department of SAHETI School in Johannesburg, talks to us about the value of teaching Greek language and Greek culture not only to Greek children but to all students...

Film editor Angela Despotidou gave an interview to the collaborator of "Voice of Greece" Eliana Nunes.Moving between Greece and the UK, Angela Despotidou edited three films in 2023: "Woaca", "The After", which is nominated for an Academy Award and "Murderess", which was awarded with 6 awards at the...

On this episode of ''Imprint'', Fuli Zavitsanou meets Dimitris Koutsogiannis, Deputy President of the Centre for the Greek Language (KEG) and Professor at the School of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He will talk about KEG initiatives and actions in relation to learning and...

The performance "Alice at the Asylum" by the London-based Theatre Lab Company is coming to Athens for three unique performances and today, Wednesday, February 7th, the special director and artistic director of the Theatre Lab Company Anastasia Revi and actor Manolis Emmanuel came to the studio and talked...

Singer, songwriter, philologist and educator Kalliopi Iliopoulou was a guest of Giannis Papoutsakis on February 6th, at the show "Journeys Basking in Greek Light", where she presented songs from her entire artistic career, which includes compositions from rock to traditional!

Distinguished actress Emmy Stylianidou was a guest at Giannis Papoutsakis' “Heliotrope” on February 5th, where she referred to the role of Jocasta played in the play "Oedipus Rex" performed at the "Vafeio-Lakis Karalis" theater. She also read her favorite poems by Cavafy and Ritsos. Music by Beethoven and...

Well-known lyricist and writer Giorgos Kleftogiorgos was a guest of Giannis Papoutsakis on February 4th on the show “Journeys Basking in Greek Light”. The show featured his songs sung by Dalaras, Mitropanos, Papakonstantinou, Kalogiannis, Vitali, Malamas and Protopsalti

The famous Greek-Swedish director and screenwriter Babis Tsokas is this week’s personality, hosted by Mina Ralli live at the studio of Voice of Greece on Saturday, February 3rd. Babis Tsokas, originally from Preveza and studied film at the Stockholm Film Academy, “unfolds” his great path from his y...

The sensitive and talented songwriter and poet Maria Voulgari was at the show "Journeys Basking in Greek Light" by Giannis Papoutsakis on February 1st, where her songs were heard and her poems from her award-winning poetry collection "Aroma Ginger" were read.

Cartoonist and comics creator Soloup (Antonis Nikolopoulos) was Natasa Vissarionos’ guest. They talked about the creation of the graphic novel "Zorbas, beautiful green stone"; about his contact with the Greeks of the Diaspora and his trip to Canada, which will take place in the following days; about b...

The distinguished writer and poet Calliopi Velonia was a guest of Giannis Papoutsakis on "Heliotrope" on January 29th. She talked about her books, what inspires and troubles her and read characteristic excerpts from all her works. We heard ballads of: Deep Purple, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Barclay James Harvest,...

Ξέρεις τι είναι να περιδιαβαίνεις τα στενά της Ερμούπολης και να ακούς Ηπειρώτικα; Έτσι στο άκουσμα αυτό φτάσαμε άξαφνα... σε ένα στενό δρομάκι της πρωτεύουσας των Κυκλάδων, ανεβήκαμε κάτι σκαλιά και συναντήσαμε τους Ηπειρώτες της Σύρου! Από το 2005 δίνει αγώνες διατήρησης της ρίζας, ο Σύλλογος Ηπειρωτών Σύρου. Η ...